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Chris Wallace Gets Into Exchange With Donald Trump Over Just How Hard It Is To Take A Cognitive Test

There were many standout moments from Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace‘s one-hour interview with President Donald Trump on Sunday, but one was especially unusual. It came after Wallace asked Trump about his 2020 rival, Joe Biden. “Is Joe Biden senile?” That launched Trump into one of his...
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Chris Wallace Gets Into Exchange With Donald Trump Over Just How Hard It Is To Take A Cognitive Test
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There were many standout moments from Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace’s one-hour interview with President Donald Trump on Sunday, but one was especially unusual.
It came after Wallace asked Trump about his 2020 rival, Joe Biden. “Is Joe Biden senile?”
That launched Trump into one of his signature campaign themes, that Biden isn’t entirely with it and wouldn’t be able to handle the job. In the interview, Trump said Biden was “not competent to be president” and that “he doesn’t know he’s alive.” Last week, in an interview with Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, Trump also boasted about taking a cognitive test in a visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and he “aced” the exam.



Wallace, though, noted that in a Fox News poll, Biden beats Trump on the question of who is more competent.

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Trump responded, “Well, I’ll tell you what, let’s take a test. Let’s take a test right now. Let’s go down, Joe and I will take a test. Let him take the same test that I took.”
Wallace then said that he took the test, too, when he heard Trump passed it, and it was not the “hardest test.”
“They have a picture and it says ‘what’s that and it’s an elephant,” Wallace said.
Trump, though, challenged him on that point, calling it a “misrepresentation.”
“Because, yes, the first few questions are easy, but I’ll bet you couldn’t even answer the last five questions. I’ll bet you couldn’t, they get very hard, the last five questions,” he said.
“Well, one of them was count back from 100 by seven,” Wallace said.
“Let me tell you…” Trump said.
“Ninety three,” Wallace responded.
Trump then said “you couldn’t answer many of the questions.”
“OK, what’s the question?” Wallace said.
“I’ll get you the test. I’d like to give it. I’ll guarantee you that Joe Biden could not answer those questions. And I answered all 35 questions correctly,” Trump insisted.
During the interview, Wallace also challenged Trump on the issue of coronavirus testing, and the president’s claim that the recent spike in cases is due to more people being screened.
“It isn’t just that testing has gone up, it’s that the virus has spread,” Wallace said. “The positivity rate has increased.”
“Many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day,” Trump said. “They have the sniffles and we put it down as a test…. Don’t forget, I guess it’s like 99.7 percent, people are going to get better and in many cases they’re going to get better very quickly.”



The interview started with an exchange over the coronavirus mortality rate.
When Wallace said that the United States had the seventh highest mortality rate in the world, Trump disputed it and said he thinks “we have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world.”
“That’s not true, sir. We had 900 deaths on a single day,” Wallace said.
Trump then referred to his press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany. “Do you have the numbers, please? Because I heard we had the best mortality rate.”
“I hope you show the scenario because it shows what fake news is all about,” Trump said.
“I don’t think I’m fake news but I will — we’ll put our stats on,” Wallace said.
In a voice over, Wallace then explained that his show “went with numbers from Johns Hopkins University which charted the mortality rate for 20 countries hit by the virus. The US ranked 7th, better than the United Kingdom but worse than Brazil and Russia.”
The show then showed the White House’s chart, which was from the European CDC showed Italy and Spain doing worse, but countries like Brazil and South Korea “doing better.”
“Other countries doing better like Russia aren’t included in the White House chart,” Wallace said.
In tweets, Trump has bashed Wallace, something that the Fox News Sunday host noted at one point.
“Some people were surprised when you agreed to this interview, to sit down with me,” Wallace said, adding, “Especially because of some of the mean tweets that you’ve said about me. Mike Wallace wannabe. Nasty and obnoxious. I will tell you after that one my son, Peter, who you’ve met, called and he said nasty, no, obnoxious, maybe.”
Then Wallace asked,”One of your beefs seems to be that I put Democrats on the show and I ask them questions. And I guess the question I have is, don’t you understand it’s my job to put Democrats on as well as Republicans? And to ask them probing questions just like I ask Republicans?”
Trump responded, “I’m not a big fan of ‘Fox,’ I’ll be honest with you. They’ve changed a lot since Roger Ailes. And I watch people like [Rep. Eric] Swalwell, who I don’t even know, he goes on the show, he got less than 1 percent, all of a sudden he’s … being interviewed for endless hours.”
Then Wallace played clips of interviews with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former FBI director James Comey, in which he asked them tough questions.
“I’d like to think I treat everybody the same,” Wallace said.
Trump did praise Wallace as a “very talented person,” but said, “It just seems to me that you are very prone to be nice to the Democrats and maybe I’m wrong about that, Chris, but it’s an honor to be with you it’s fine, I love it.”
 
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Despite What The White House Says, Paw Patrol Has Not Been Canceled
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It’s been a ruff week already, and if the idea of your Paw Patrol-obsessed child losing the only thing getting you all through quarantine has you howling, don’t worry. Despite what the White House inexplicably alleges, the animated series about a team of emergency responder dogs, which airs on Nickelodeon in the U.S., lives on to help the residents of Adventure Bay through yet another calamity.
“We saw that Paw Patrol, a cartoon show about cops, was canceled. The show COPS was canceled. Live PD was canceled. LEGO halted sales of their LEGO City Police Station. It’s really unfortunate,” White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters Friday while complaining about “cancel culture and cancel culture specifically as it pertains to cops.” It’s not exactly clear why McEnany lied about the status of Paw Patrol, but either way, the show’s official Twitter account issued a correction after the fact, tweeting, “No need to worry. PAW Patrol is not canceled.”

Of course, there might be some caregivers who would be just fine if it was. In his Vulture review of the series this December, writer (and reluctant parental viewer) Brian Platzer found the show to be “monstrous” and “a moral and aesthetic catastrophe.” Writes Platzer, “It’s one of the few children’s programs that neither tries to entertain parents nor encourages kids to become better people.”
Live PD, meanwhile, was, in fact, canceled in June, the same week as Paramount axed Cops, after A&E admitted the reality show filmed police killing a suspect, a man named Javier Ambler, in Texas last year. In a statement to CNN on Friday, LEGO clarifies, “We did not halt sales of any LEGO sets, and any reports otherwise are false,” though they reportedly did put the marketing of police LEGO sets on hold during last month’s Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality.

 
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A man who thought the coronavirus was a 'scamdemic' wrote a powerful essay warning against virus deniers after he hosted a party and got his entire family sick

Texas conservative Tony Green and most of his family, including two new parents, caught COVID-19 after he hosted a party at his house on June 13.
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A man who thought the coronavirus was a 'scamdemic' wrote a powerful essay warning against virus deniers after he hosted a party and got his entire family sick
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Medical staff wearing full PPE push a stretcher with a deceased patient to a car outside of the Covid-19 intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center on June 30, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Go Nakamura/Getty Images
  • A conservative man in Texas has recounted in an essay for the Dallas Voice how he went from coronavirus denier to believer after he hosted a party and almost his entire family got sick.
  • Believing the virus was a hoax, Tony Green and his partner hosted a house party wth family on June 12, he said.
  • Within days the virus spread rapidly throughout their families, and Green himself was hospitalized.
  • "To ignore or question the validity of this virus, its contagiousness or the consequences of selfish attitudes is — at this stage — completely stupid," Green wrote.
  • President Donald Trump's initial refusal to acknowledge the severity of the US coronavirus outbreak has left many Republicans refusing to take public-health advice seriously.
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A conservative man in Texas has written a powerful essay saying he once believed the coronavirus was a hoax, but has now had a dramatic change of heart after he and his entire family tested positive for COVID-19 following a party at his house.

In a column for Texas LGBTQ news outlet Dallas Voice, published last weekend, consultant and lobbyist Tony Green admitted to "traveling deep into the conspiracy trap over COVID-19," adding that he is a "gay conservative" who voted for President Donald Trump in 2016.

"All the defiant behavior of Trump's more radical and rowdy cult followers, I participated in it. I was a hard-ass that stood up for my 'God-given rights,'" he wrote.

"In great haste, I began prognosticating the alphabet soup about this 'scamdemic.' I believed the virus to be a hoax. I believed the mainstream media and the Democrats were using it to create panic, crash the economy and destroy Trump's chances at reelection."

Green's belief that the virus was fake prompted him and his partner to host a house party on June 13 for family members. He did not say how many people attended.

The next morning, Green woke up sick, and over the following days the virus continued to spread throughout both his and his partner's families — including his father-in-law's mother, who died of COVID-19 on July 1.

Green himself and his father-in-law were both hospitalized for the virus.
'You cannot imagine the guilt I feel'
Catching the coronavirus has changed Green's mind on the issue, and he's now calling for an end to the politicization over the virus.

"You cannot imagine the guilt I feel, knowing that I hosted the gathering that led to so much suffering," he wrote."You cannot imagine my guilt at having been a denier, carelessly shuffling through this pandemic, making fun of those wearing masks and social distancing. You cannot imagine my guilt at knowing that my actions convinced both our families it was safe when it wasn't."
"For those who deny the virus exists or who downplay its severity, let me assure you: The coronavirus is very real and extremely contagious," he added. "Before you even know you have it, you've passed it along to your friends, family, coworkers and neighbors."

President Donald Trump wearing a face mask in public for the first time during a visit to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on July 11, 2020. ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images

Trump has for months downplayed the urgency of the US coronavirus outbreak, leaving many Republicans refusing to take the disease and public-health measures seriously. Social media sites like Facebook and YouTube have also been forced to take down popular videos and articles spreading misinformation about the virus.
Mask-wearing has also emerged as a politically divisive issue this year, with Trump himself refusing to wear one in public for months. Last month he told The Wall Street Journal he believed some Americans were wearing masks to express their disapproval of him.

The president endorsed mask-wearing and wore one in public for the first time earlier this month. His shift in tone was most likely prompted by tanking poll numbers and increasing concern from GOP lawmakers about the White House's coronavirus response.

In his essay, Green urged Americans to take the virus seriously, saying it's "foolish," "selfish" and "completely stupid" to "ignore or question the validity of the virus."

"You do not want your loved ones suffering and dying from this because you are taking a 'political stand' or protecting the economy over their lives," he wrote.

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A man who thought the coronavirus was a 'scamdemic' wrote a powerful essay warning against virus deniers after he hosted a party and got his entire family sick

Texas conservative Tony Green and most of his family, including two new parents, caught COVID-19 after he hosted a party at his house on June 13.
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