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In reply to the discussion: when did trump declare virus a hoax? [View all]The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)Is that neither criticism of his response to the spreading infection, nor expressions of concern for its consequences, can be a 'hoax' if the underlying event is not a hoax. If the claim is not that the danger of the virus is a hoax, there is no meaning at all to the statement. For that he was being criticized was true, and that concern over the danger of the contagion was being expressed, are plain facts.
The cheap thug's meaning when he referred to impeachment as a hoax was certainly that the charges underlying his impeachment were false, that they were concocted, made up --- that they were, in a word, a hoax. The meaning intended by branding as a hoax criticism over his response to the contagion, and concern for the danger posed by the contagion, is the same. It is a claim that the criticism is over made up things, and that the concern is over a made up thing.
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