Despite China covering up the coronavirus in 2019, the American media is intent on ignoring that and smearing the Trump administration as responsible for letting the virus spread. The co-hosts of ABC's The View kept up that convenient narrative on Wednesday's show by bringing on failed presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) to trash Trump for promoting Hydroxychloroquine and claim he’s responsible for people dying.

Co-host Sunny Hostin was particularly nasty. She began by attacking Trump for taking too long to “admit” there was a problem (she conveniently left out steps the administration took early on such as the China travel ban), then invited Harris to blame the president for people dying: “American lives have been lost. Does he not bear some of the responsibility for that?” she asked.

Of course Harris agreed, before pushing the debunked lie that Trump called the virus a hoax. At the same time she was lying, she lectured that Trump needed to “embrace fact and speak truth”:

The buck stops with him, you know…The President of the United States, the Commander in Chief, must use the voice of that office in a way that is about speaking truth, embracing fact, speaking about facts. No matter how uncomfortable it may make people to hear. It is about embracing science, and listening to the public health professionals all with the intention of lifting up the American people both in terms of dealing with the solutions to this problem which means acknowledging it is a real serious issue and not a hoax...