• Trump Embracing Medical Science Could Spell The End of His Political Ca

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    Trump refuses to tout COVID-19 vaccine: 'As a Republican, it’s not a great thing to talk about'


    Former President Donald Trump refused to say whether the COVID-19 vaccine
    works and explained that he doesn’t like to tout his administration’s
    work on the vaccine because “as a Republican, it’s not a great thing to
    talk about.”

    During an interview with Fox News host Bret Baier that aired Tuesday,
    Trump, 77, was asked, “In your mind, did the COVID vaccine work?”

    The former president dodged the question, instead praising his
    administration’s efforts at promoting Regeneron’s antibody treatment for
    COVID and then claiming to have a “Democrat friend who’s very smart” who
    has questioned why he doesn’t talk more about his work rolling out COVID vaccines.

    “You may have saved in the world, throughout the world, 100 million
    people, and you never talk about it,” Trump recalled his friend telling
    him.

    “I said: ‘I really don’t want to talk about it, because, as a Republican,
    it’s not a great thing to talk about, because, for some reason, it’s just not.’” the former president told Baier.


    When pressed on the reason he believes it is uncouth for Republicans to
    talk about vaccines, Trump blamed it on the politically charged nature of
    the debate surrounding COVID shots. Donald Trump and Bret Baier
    Trump told Fox News host Bret Baier that “as a Republican, it’s not a
    great thing to talk about” vaccines. FOX NEWS

    “Yes, for some reason, because people love the vaccines, and people hate
    the vaccines, but conservatives aren’t – and I understand both sides of
    it, by the way. I understand both sides very well,” Trump explained.

    “What I didn’t do is the mandates. The mandates and the vaccines don’t
    go,” Trump claimed.

    Baier noted that under his administration the Pentagon mandated COVID
    vaccines for members of the armed forces, a fact-check Trump did not acknowledge.

    “But you have a lot of people that love the vaccines. I mean, you do. They happen to be more Democrat than they are Republican,” the 2024 GOP
    presidential primary front-runner said. Donald Trump


    “There are people that say I saved 100 million lives. I don’t even talk
    about it,” Trump bragged.

    During his sit down with Baier, Trump also suggested that his attacks
    against his top 2024 opponent, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, are personal and
    the result of disloyalty on the part of the Sunshine State governor.

    “I got him elected. And I thought he was very disloyal when he said: Yes,
    I’d run,” Trump said when asked about why he refers to the Florida
    governor as “Ron DeSanctimonious.” When pressed on the reason he believes
    it is uncouth for Republicans to talk about vaccines, Trump blamed it on
    the politically charged nature of the debate surrounding COVID shots. When pressed on the reason he believes it is uncouth for Republicans to talk
    about vaccines, Trump blamed it on the politically charged nature of the
    debate surrounding COVID shots. FOX NEWS
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    “I’m a big loyalist,” Trump continued. “You know, some people say, some
    people right here in this room have told me, ‘sir, don’t worry about
    loyalty. Loyalty doesn’t mean anything in politics.’ I said, to me, it
    does. I got the guy elected. He came to see me, let’s say weeping, because
    he was dead. He was getting out of the race.”

    “But this guy was dead politically. And for him to then say, I’m going to
    run against a guy that got me into office? And I didn’t need that, because
    I took a lot of heat,” Trump said of his endorsement of DeSantis for
    governor in 2017.

    “I had a lot of friends that were on the other side of that one. I took
    big heat on that. It’s not that easy to do.”

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