Eric Trump Appeared on Fox News–Like There Was an Alternative?

From Axios:

Eric Trump suggested on Fox News Saturday that Democrats are “milking” coronavirus lockdowns in order to “deprive” his father President Trump of campaign rallies and hurt him in November’s election.

What he’s saying: “They think they are taking away Donald Trump’s greatest tool, which is being able to go into an arena and fill it with 50,000 people every single time. You watch, they’ll milk it every single day between now and Nov. 3. And guess what, after Nov. 3 coronavirus will magically all of a sudden go away and disappear and everybody will be able to reopen.”

The big picture: Eric Trump’s comments echo claims made by the president at a campaign rally in February, in which he called Democrats’ criticism of the administration’s coronavirus response “their new hoax.”

That this took place on Fox News was probably not an accident.  Had Eric Trump made these claims to any other journalist on Earth, he would have been asked to clarify:

• Are you saying that 88,000 Americans didn’t really die agonizing deaths?

• Do you mean that the U.S. doesn’t have the highest death toll in the world?

• Would you comment on the editorial in yesterday’s Lancet, medicine’s most esteemed publication, that blasted your father’s coronavirus response as ‘inconsistent and incoherent?’

But from the safety of the Fox News studios, all things are possible.