Analysis: Trump tried to blame Black Lives Matter protests for the coronavirus surge. The data don’t support his claim.
about Trump’s handling of the pandemic and increased support for his probable opponent in November’s election clearly spurred the White House to resume the briefings, in the hope that voters would shift their perceptions of how Trump has handled the crisis.Trump, never a staunch adherent to the concept of subtlety, tried to put a fine point on where he thinks blame should lie for the recent surge in new cases.
“There are likely a number of causes for the spike in infections,” he said. “Cases started to rise among young Americans shortly after demonstrations, which you know very well about, which presumably triggered a broader relaxation of mitigation efforts nationwide.”“A substantial increase in travel also was a cause,” he added. “Increased gathering on holidays such as Memorial Day, as well as young people closely congregating at bars and probably other places.
That he led with the demonstrations — national Black Lives Matter protests that emerged following the killing of George Floyd when a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck — was pointed. His allies have consistently pointed to the protests as the cause of the surge, for the same reason that Trump does: It shifts blame.
That Trump additionally blamed the protests for “triggering a broader relaxation of mitigation efforts,” however, is ludicrous. It’s Trump himself who triggered that relaxation, pushing states months ago to scale back efforts to contain the virus — again because he worried that slower economic activity would hurt his reelection chances.
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