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Donald Trump s other, tragic big lie
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Editor s note: Jonathan Reiner, MD, is a CNN medical analyst and Professor of Medicine and Surgery at George Washington University. The views expressed in this commentary belong to the author. View more opinion at CNN.
(CNN) The January 6 attack on the United States Capitol was a vivid demonstration of the havoc that can result when a really big lie is repeatedly injected into the body politic.
But there was another big lie in 2020, also propagated by former President Donald Trump, involving the coronavirus pandemic. It was a lie that systematically downplayed the severity of COVID-19 and the utility of face masks. It very likely resulted in the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
Fact check: Breaking down Joe Biden s first month of claims CNN 2/23/2021 By Daniel Dale, Holmes Lybrand and Tara Subramaniam, CNN © Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images US President Joe Biden speaks virtually to the Munich Security Conference in Germany, from the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 19, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
President Joe Biden was more consistently factual in his first month in office than his predecessorever was in office. But Biden was not perfect himself.
Biden was not remotely comparable to former President Donald Trump in either the quantity of his false claims or in the magnitude. He did, however, make some inaccurate comments, mostly when ad-libbing. For example, Biden made at least six false claims at a CNN town hall event last week. (CNN wrote about four of them in our initial fact check article.)