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Trump and Son Whitewash Vaccine Willingness Before Biden

The percentage of Americans who say they would “definitely not” get the COVID-19 vaccine has remained relatively stable since 2020. And the daily number of people getting vaccinations had slid near a low point when President Joe Biden announced sweeping vaccine mandates.

Yet, former President Donald Trump and his son Eric have been dishing out revisionist history with claims that vaccine hesitancy soared once Biden assumed office and that “people were getting the vaccine in record numbers” until Biden implemented vaccine mandates.

In an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Oct. 18, Eric Trump claimed that Biden has “actually scared America about the vaccine” due to mandates.

I mean, my father was producing the vaccine. By the way, people were taking it in record

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