On July 13, 2020, Trump retweeted former game show host Chuck Woolery, who pushed to reopen schools amid record new cases of COVID-19. He alleged that scientific evidence pointed to the move, and that Democrats, Media, the CDC, and “our Doctors” had been lying about the disease.

When asked if endorsing comments that doubted his own Center for Disease Control would be confusing to the public, Trump replied,

I didn’t make a comment. I reposted a tweet that a lot of people feel. But all I am doing is making a comment. I’m just putting somebody’s voice out there. There are many voices. There are many people that think we shouldn’t do this kind of testing, because all we do, it’s a trap.

Three days later, Woolery deleted his Twitter account upon learning that his son tested positive for COVID-19.

On the day of the retweet, the United States totaled 3,483,584 cases and 120,004 deaths.

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