Candace Owens am asking traditionalists Go easy on Trump as he is ‘too old’ to do ‘independent research’ on vaccines after an interview where he encouraged vaccination and said he had received a COVID booster.
Conservative pundits reach out to their followers in an Instagram video posted after Wednesday’s interview with the former president Donald Trump And told them that Trump, 75, only praised vaccines because he didn’t have enough knowledge to do better research.
“People often forget how old Trump is,” he said. ‘He comes from a generation – I’ve seen a lot of people who are older, have the exact same point of view, like, they came before TV, before the Internet, before being able to do independent research. And what they read to them, which was in a newspaper that was given to them, they believed it to be a reality.’
Candace Owens reached out to her followers on Instagram and told them that Trump only praised vaccines because he was not knowledgeable enough to do better research.
Donald Trump urged Americans to get vaccinated, arguing: ‘If you get vaccinated, you’re safe. Look, the results of the vaccine are very good and even if it is found, it is a very mild form. People are not dying from taking the vaccine.
It comes after Trump hit back against Owens’ anti-vaccination rhetoric during an interview aired earlier this week.
Trump told Owens that people unaffiliated against the coronavirus are getting ‘very sick’ and encouraged all Americans to take credit for its creation.
“I came up with one vaccine — with three vaccines,” Trump told the Daily Wire host, referring to Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson developing vaccines when he was still president. ‘All are very, very good. Came up with three of them in less than nine months. It was going to take five to 12 years.
Owens interjected: ‘So far this year more people have died under COVID, by the way, under Joe Biden, more people under you took the vaccine this year. So people are asking how-‘
Former President Donald Trump (left) was booed in Dallas on Sunday to confirm that he had received his COVID-19 booster shot with former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly (right).
But the former president interrupted, reassuring Owens: ‘Oh no, vaccines work (sic), but some people don’t. Those who become very ill and go to the hospital do not get vaccinated. But it is still their choice.’
‘And if you get vaccinated, you’re safe,’ he continued. ‘Look, the results of the vaccine are very good and even if found, it is a very mild form. People are not dying from taking the vaccine.
Owens has been one of the most outspoken conservative leaders of the anti-vax movement and has said she will never get a COVID-19 vaccine.
He tweeted on Thursday, ‘I have no problem with anyone who wants to get the vaccine. ‘I will never let that vaccine get into my body. I firmly believe that Big Pharma is the biggest evil in the world. I am healthy, young, in shape and just unafraid of COVID-19.
In his Instagram post, he said many of Trump’s donors and supporters were intimidated by his vaccine support and are ‘questioning where this is all coming from’
He said, ‘I don’t think anything bad is happening. ‘I think he really believes that and needs to sit down and have a good conversation with someone to really understand what’s going on and why so many people are so scared.’
He blamed Trump’s stance on vaccines for only reading “mainstream media news” instead of researching “vague websites,” and said the president, who won the presidency in 2016 because of his knowledge of social media, doesn’t have the internet. Was.
“I don’t believe Trump is on the Internet, he’s only relying on specific mainstream sources,” she said.
Trump’s praise of vaccines goes against a large part of his base, but in the interview with Owens he also opposes a growing number of mandates related to masking and vaccination.
“Forget about the mandate, the people have to have their freedom,” Trump told Owens in an interview aired Wednesday.
‘But at the same time, the vaccine is one of the greatest achievements of mankind.’
So far 61.6 percent of Americans have been fully vaccinated, but that’s not stopping the holiday’s rise in case rates. And some states are seeing more new cases than at any other point during the pandemic as the highly transmissible Omicron variant continues to spread across the country.
Christmas Eve saw an increase of 261,339 new cases in total infections, up 10 percent from Thursday, according to Johns Hopkins University data published on Friday.
Trump showed his support for vaccines last weekend during an appearance with Bill O’Reilly in Texas, where he revealed that he had received his booster shot, which has led to his supporters booing him.
His stance on vaccines is also one of the rare things he and his former rival, President Joe Biden, can agree on.
On Tuesday, Trump said he “greatly appreciates” President Joe Biden, who paid tribute to his administration’s efforts to create a vaccine earlier this week – saying he was “shocked to hear it”.