Jerry Falwell Jr. Floats Conspiracy Theory That Coronavirus Is North Korean Bioweapon – By Jared Holt (Right Wing Watch) / March 13 2020
Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, appeared on President Donald Trump’s favorite morning news show “Fox & Friends” Friday and floated various conspiracy theories about the coronavirus that would absolve Trump of fault for his administration’s handling of the disease, which was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization Wednesday.
Fox & Friends invited Falwell Jr. on to speak about the recent wave of college campus closures in response to the coronavirus and to explain why Falwell Jr.’s school had decided not to cancel in-person classes like other schools across the nation. (Liberty University has, however, canceled all international travel in response to the coronavirus.) Falwell Jr. responded by downplaying the threat of the disease and positing conspiracy theories because it struck him as “strange” that “so many” people were—as he put it—”overreacting” to the pandemic.
“It makes you wonder if there’s a political reason for that. You know, impeachment didn’t work, and the Mueller report didn’t work, and Article 25 didn’t work, and so maybe now this is their next attempt to get Trump,” Falwell Jr. said. (By Article 25, Falwell Jr. appeared to be referencing the 25th Amendment, which Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had discussed invoking to remove Trump from office for being unfit.)
Falwell Jr. continued, “I had the owner of a restaurant ask me last night—he said, ‘Do you remember the North Korean leader promised a Christmas present for America back in December? Could it be they got together with China and this is that present?’ I don’t know, but it really is something strange going on.”
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