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Candace Owens describes Trump as “old” after he touted vaccines [Video]
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- Candace Owens suggested that former President Donald Trump is “too old” that’s why he said that vaccines work.
- In an interview last week, Trump told anti-vax Owens that vaccines can protect people and won’t kill anyone.
- Owens, in response, said Trump’s generation doesn’t try to find alternative information because they came from a time where there’s no internet yer.
Candace Owens suggested that former President Donald Trump is supporting the COVID-19 vaccine because he is “old.” the conservative activist Candace Owens suggested to her followers this week.
“People oftentimes forget, like, how old Trump is,” the conservative activist told her Instagram followers on Thursday. “Like they came from a time before TV, before internet, before being able to conduct their independent research.”
Last Wednesday, Owens had an interview with Trump. He actually endorsed the COVID-19 vaccine, saying that it protects people and won’t kill anyone.
Owens is an anti-vaxxer who repeatedly reminded everyone that she was not vaccinated.
“Everything that [Trump’s generation] read in a newspaper that was pitched to them that they believe that that was a reality,” she said. “And one of those things was, you know, this push for vaccines and believing that people were going to die without vaccines. And so, I believe that his support of the vaccine is genuine and it’s not based on any corruption at all.”
Owens said she wanted to address questions from Trump supporters, who may be wondering where his support comes from.
She suggested that the former president only reads mainstream media and doesn’t look for alternative sources of information.
“Believe it or not, I do not believe that Trump reads or partakes in any other news sources,” Owens said. “I don’t believe that Trump is on the internet or that he necessarily uses the web to try to find obscure websites. I think that he just relies on typical mainstream sources. So, I don’t think that there’s anything evil going on there.”
Though Trump has often undermined unflattering news articles — particularly in the mainstream media — by calling them “fake news,” he is said to consistently read print newspapers like The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Earlier this week, Trump told Fox News that he was surprised and appreciative of President Joe Biden’s recognizing his administration’s Operation Warp Speed to produce three COVID-19 vaccines.
Source: Business Insider
Sonja Moreau
December 26, 2021 at 11:41 am
We had two crimes of the century in 2020, the covid pandemic and the presidential election. While we all are finding out about the origins of the virus and the corrupt CDC, FDA, NIH, Fauci & company, President Trump needs to research what is in these vaccines. He created Warp Speed, to cut the red tape, to manufacture these, but I recall him saying at his rally this year in August in Alabama, if he found out there was something wrong with the vaccines he would tell us. I’m not sure why he’s not actively looking at this, but I personally feel if he doesn’t stop talking about these vaccines he will lose many supporters. He stopped for awhile but he’s at it again.
Rat Wranger
December 27, 2021 at 10:39 am
I’m nearly as old as Mr. Trump, and several studies have shown that I am in the top 5% of computer experts across 133 civilized nations. I’ve been tech my whole life and grew up with computer technology. Working as an IT professional for a couple of decades has shown me that a lot of older people have a good grasp on the technology, and studies have shown that the older generations don’t get as frustrated by that tech as the younger ones. My work in the field has also shown me that many of Ms. Owens’ generation have grown so dependent upon the new technology that they have lost the ability to think for themselves. That generation seems to think that, as long as they can look something up, they don’t need to know anything.
CP
December 31, 2021 at 10:02 am
Candace Owens is not anti-vax, she’s anti-Covid vax. Big difference.
TruthLaser
December 27, 2021 at 11:00 am
President Trump deserves credit for getting vaccines developed as promised in year one of the ChiComm Virus. Yes, he is old and fat as well. Therefore, he has comorbidities that make the risk-benefit balance favoring his being vaccinated. That is not true for people of all ages and conditions. The fact the he has been vaccinated should not be held against him. He is not for vaccine mandates, which should please his anti-vax critics. A person of Donald Trump’s age was likely to have received only the vaccine for smallpox as a baby. About ten years later he probably got the newly created polio vaccine. Other childhood vaccines were not yet available. He and others of age come from a background of vaccines being beneficial. Adverse reactions are being concealed and what comes out is contested. Trump should not be blamed and dismissed for that. When PinocchiJoe China Biden or a pinch hitter runs in 2024, even a statue of Trump would be a better choice.
Jim Ley
December 27, 2021 at 12:37 pm
Moreau, Wranger, and TruthLaser ALL make valid points but all also miss an important point; or, rather, fail to ask the important questions:
1) “Why does this website pitch the story with a prejudicial and basically misleading headline and why does it try to make it seem like some sort of antipathy exists between Owens and Trump?”
2) “Who is Shalini Nagarajan (the originating source of the report) and why is she reporting or commenting on the subject?”
3) “WHY is she interested in this bit of muck?”
Shalini Nagarajan is a reporter based in London who covers FINANCIAL news. COULD the answer be that her source publisher is owned by KKR? KKR was one of the many companies that had announced they would “Halt political donations after supporters of Republican President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol.”
Follow the financial interests of those folks. The tone and tenor of the piece force these questions. The smell is also off-putting.
Mike
December 27, 2021 at 9:55 pm
As Rush always said “follow the money trail” and it is totally true. That’s why we have a corrupt head of the FCC, FAA, DHS, and just about every 3 letter agency as well as the administration.
Marty
December 27, 2021 at 11:46 pm
Although Donald Trump did more good for the U.S. than Crooked Joe could ever do, he cannot bring himself to admit that the mrna experiment is anything but good. After all He was responsible for Warp speed and to disclaim that the companies who eagerly snatched up billions for coming up with the plan for this concoction, has NO liability for its adverse effects. This is stupidity. Candace is correct, but it’s not because Trump is old, It’s because he is Blind, just like all the others that fell for this evil scam. Albert Einstein was correct, when he said, “There are three constants in the universe, The infinity of Time, The Expanse of space and The Stupidity of Man “. And God is right when he said “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,” Romans 1:22