The ABC host optimistically claimed 2,200 of the 10,000 attendees at President Donald Trump’s Iowa rally could have caught the coronavirus, even though less than 1,500 cases were identified in the entire state that day.
Liberal talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel has claimed a fifth of the supporters at President Donald Trump’s Wednesday-night Iowa rally were “infected” with COVID-19.
The clearly-resentful host called Trump’s series of huge campaign rallies since his recovery from coronavirus “unmasked egomania orgies.”
Kimmel’s statistics were way off the mark. As of Wednesday, there were 103,000 active COVID-19 cases in the state with a population of 3.15 million – just over 3 per cent of the population.
Data from Johns Hopkins University showed only 1,482 new coronavirus cases were recorded in the entire state on Wednesday.
The host also admitted that Trump’s Thursday-night ‘Town Hall’ on rival station NBC would get far more viewers than Joe Biden’s simultaneous appearance on ABC – the home of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
And he even tried to compare Trump, the former star of NBC reality show The Apprentice, to convicted sex offender Bill Cosby, whose sitcom The Cosby Show aired on the network from 1984 to 1992.
“Thanks, NBC. First ‘The Apprentice’ and now this. Why not a new Bill Cosby special while we’re at it?”
Kimmel has long been been a strident critic of Trump, famously bursting into tears on air in February 2018 while attempting to blame the president for the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
Sourse: sputniknews.com
