Confronted directly with America’s tragic pandemic mortality rate last month, Donald Trump simply denied the facts and said, “I heard we had one of the lowest, maybe the lowest mortality rate anywhere in the world.” At the time, the US had the seventh highest mortality rate in the world. When Fox News anchor Chris Wallace challenged him with the facts, Trump flashed a chart showing a completely different metric as if it proved his point and said in a voice that suggested the case was closed, “Number one low mortality rate.”
Opinion: Trump's false claims go way back
