By refusing to acknowledge the jab’s risks, Trump helps the COVID cult evade accountability

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Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly declined to acknowledge the documented side effects associated with the Covid jabs, even as evidence mounts that the shots were not as safe or effective as their manufacturers advertised them to be.

(Article by Shawn Fleetwood republished from TheFederalist.com)

When conservative commentator Sebastian Gorka brought up the issue last Thursday, noting that some of Trump’s supporters want him “to distance yourself from the vaccines,” Trump changed the subject, pointing to the injections’ accelerated approval under Operation Warp Speed and his opposition to jab mandates.

“I have a friend who’s, believe it or not, he tends to be liberal and he said, ‘Why don’t you ever talk about the fact that you had the vaccines approved in nine months instead of 12 years?’ Five to 12 years they said it was going to take,” Trump claimed. “The big thing was there were no [vaccine] mandates.”

Similarly, in an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier last week, Trump pivoted away from the issue, again noting Operation Warp Speed and referencing a “Democrat friend” who told him, “You may have saved in the world, throughout the world, 100 million people, and you never talk about it.”

It remains unclear what data Trump is relying on to claim Covid shots saved 100 million lives — a contention the former president has made several times before.

Last week’s interviews weren’t the first instances of Trump sidestepping the shots’ significant side effects, either. The former president sparred with Daily Wire host Candace Owens over the safety and efficacy of the jabs during a December 2021 interview. In a January interview, Trump was asked if he would “acknowledge” the jabs “were not as safe or effective as we were told by the medical community at the time.”

While Trump avoided the issue in the former exchange, he tacitly admitted there were studies showing adverse events in the latter but appeared to downplay such reports. He shouldn’t.

Looking at the Data

Despite Trump’s avoidance of the matter, numerous medical studies have shown there are significant risks associated with getting the Covid shot that were not originally disclosed to the public — chief among them being cardio-related problems.

Last summer, 76 doctors sent a letter to U.K. health officials, urging the government to seriously consider whether to authorize emergency use of Covid shots for infants and young children. In their letter, the doctors pointed to several key points undercutting the rationale for the shots’ approval, including the low risk the virus poses to children, existing natural immunity, poor vaccine efficacy, and potential long-term harms from the jabs.

“There has been great concern about myocarditis in adolescents and young adults, especially in males after the second dose,” the letter reads. “The emerging evidence of persistent cardiac abnormalities in adolescents with post-mRNA vaccine myopericarditis … suggests this is far from ‘mild and short-lived’. The potential for longer term effects requires further study and calls for the strictest application of the precautionary principle in respect of the youngest and most vulnerable children.”

The letter was highlighted by Dr. Robert Malone, who helped develop mRNA technology and has been critical of Covid lockdown policies.

Concerns regarding myocarditis and other heart-related problems following Covid vaccination were also highlighted in a study published in October by Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo. In the analysis, researchers found “an 84% increase in the relative incidence of cardiac-related death among males 18-39 years old within 28 days following mRNA vaccination” and noted that the “risk associated with mRNA vaccination should be weighed against the risk associated with COVID-19 infection.”

Dr. Marty Makary, a surgeon and public policy researcher at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, cited the study when discussing adverse events related to the Covid jabs during a Fox News interview earlier this year.