Trump re-tweets Q Conspiracy Theory that only 9,000 have “actually” died of COVID-19 by “Mel Q"

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Apparently Trump gets much of his news from Qanon, and his nutball adherents.  

Trump retweets conspiracy theory questioning COVID-19 death toll

BY PETER SULLIVAN

President Trump over the weekend retweeted a conspiracy theory falsely claiming that only about 9,000 people had “actually” died from coronavirus, instead of about 150,000.

Twitter later removed the tweet, written by a user named “Mel Q,” who is also a believer of the QAnon conspiracy theory, saying it violated its rules.

The now-deleted tweet pointed to a post on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website saying that “for 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.”

But contrary to the claim in the tweet, that does not mean that the other 94 percent did not die from the coronavirus. Many of the remaining deaths were listed as also having conditions that are directly caused by the coronavirus, such as “respiratory failure.” Others had underlying conditions that are not necessarily deadly on their own, but that make coronavirus worse, such as obesity and diabetes.

As someone who lost a family member to COVID-19, Trump’s dismissal of the 187,410 Americans who died from COVID-10 is extremely offensive. It also shows Trump’s preference for nonsense over facts. Something that every rational American should be alarmed by.