Trump's comments touting COVID-19 vaccines spark anger among his loyal supporters
December 30, 2021
Donald Trump's recent comments touting COVID-19 vaccines as safe and a major achievement of his presidency have roiled extreme anti-vaxers, which include many of his ardent supporters
Trump on Dec. 19 told former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly during an event in Dallas that he'd received the booster –
eliciting some boos from the audience. In an interview with right-wing pundit Candace Owens released two days later,
Trump pushed back when Owens suggested the shots were not safe. "Oh no, the vaccine works," Trump interrupted Owens, who said she was not vaccinated. While in both cases Trump stressed that he is against Democratic President Joe Biden's vaccine mandates,
his comments have stoked rare criticism from anti-vaccine activists and some supporters... for many of whom opposition to vaccines has become a rallying cry, without repelling moderate suburbanites... Alex Jones said on his talk show that by touting the vaccine, Trump was either "completely ignorant"... He said it was time "to move on" from Trump and also threatened to "dish all the dirt" on the former president.
Radio host Wayne Allyn Root, a staunch Trump supporter, said the former president was "right on everything" except the vaccines, and needed an "intervention." In a statement to Reuters, Root stressed he would always be a Trump supporter and that
by "intervention" he simply meant a chance to convince Trump to "alter" his message. "I no longer can support him," Daniel McLean, 42, who works in the cannabis industry in Oregon... McLean said he had steadily grown
disappointed with what he views as Trump's embrace of the political establishment. Trump continues to have a near-iron grip on Republican voters. Candidates in the 2022 midterm elections are vying for his endorsements; he is the clear favorite for the 2024 presidential race...
"I'm with Trump all the way," wrote a user under the name Crockett on a Telegram app chat about Trump's vaccine comments. ... Still, Ron Filipkowski, a former federal prosecutor and Trump critic who monitors the extreme right, said
Trump going out of his way to tout the vaccines has sent "shockwaves" through his base. Trump's comments touting COVID-19 vaccines spark anger among his loyal supporters - National | Globalnews.ca (http://globalnews.ca)
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