Republican group gives Trump a harsh reminder of his biggest coronavirus blunder

A group of conservative critics of President Donald Trump is out with a stark new video highlighting the growing death toll due to the coronavirus pandemic. And it puts one of the president’s most infamous falsehoods about the disease into a harsh spotlight. Trump in February predicted that the country’s 15 infections at the time “within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” Now, the anti-Trump Lincoln Project ― a group launched last year by conservative attorney George Conway and GOP strategists Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt and John Weaver, among others ― uses that phrase at the center of its video: Another group of conservative critics, Republicans for the Rule Law, also uses the president’s own words against him ― pointing out his litany of tweets baselessly implying that MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough might have killed congressional intern Lori Klausutis in 2001. The video slams Trump for fixating on the conspiracy theory to attack one of his critics instead of mourning the nearly 100,000 Americans who’ve died due to the virus. And it calls out Republicans in Congress for failing to hold the president accountable. The spot urges Americans to vote against Trump in November’s election to “make it stop”: Love HuffPost? Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. More from HuffPost US: Trump dismisses widower's removal request of tweets about how the man's wife died Trump taunts reporter for wearing mask during White House news conference Fox News doctor finds flaw with Trump's plan to hold RNC amid pandemic