Former game show host Chuck Woolery’s Twitter account went missing after criticizing health officials and Democrats for his ‘outrageous lies’ about the coronavirus pandemic, and later revealed that a day later his son was diagnosed with the virus.
The 79-year-old man, who was the original host of Wheel of Fortune and also hosted the beloved game shows Love Connection and Scrabble, turned to Twitter to dismiss the severity of the pandemic as a political tactic.
On Sunday he tweeted: “The most outrageous lies are those of Covid 19.”
‘Everyone is lying. The CDC, the media, the Democrats, our doctors, not all but the majority, who we are told to trust. I think it’s all about the elections and preventing the economy from coming back, it’s about the elections. I’m sick of it. ”
Chuck Woolery, 79, was the original presenter of Wheel of Fortune, presenting the show from 1975 to 1981.
Woolery deleted his social media accounts days after tweeting about the ‘scandalous lies’ surrounding the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday. On Monday, she tweeted that her son tested positive for the virus. By Wednesday his Twitter account was no longer
Trump retweeted that message, starting a firestorm on Twitter for asking questions about his own health officials.
When asked about that tweet by Cathering from CBS News, Trump said, “I made no comment.”
‘I did. I republished a tweet that many people feel. But all I’m doing is making a comment. I just put someone’s voice out there. There are many voices.There are many people who think that we should not do this type of tests, because everything we do is a trap, ” Trump added.
Woolery changed his tune Monday night, admitting that his son contracted Covid-19, the deadly virus that killed more than 137,000 across the country and infected more than 3.5 million.
‘To further clarify and add perspective, Covid-19 is real and here. My son tested positive for the virus, and I feel sorry for those who suffer and especially for those who have lost a loved one, ” Woolery tweeted.
By Wednesday his Twitter account was gone.
It’s unclear if he removed it himself or if it was related to a widespread hack that Twitter experienced on Wednesday that affected Elon Musk, Joe Biden and Bill Gates.
It is unclear which of Woolery’s children is ill with the virus or his current condition.
Woolery has not responded to a request for comment, according to the deadline.
On Monday, President Donald Trump had highlighted Woolery’s original tweet that put him under intense focus. Since then he has deleted his account.
Critics of Trump were surprised by the fact that the president sided with the 1980s game host on experts like the head of the infectious disease center, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Fauci is said to have increasingly angered the President with his refusal to endorse some of Trump’s outlandish claims and theories.
Fauci has continued to issue severe warnings about the risks of reopening the country amid the pandemic, prompting the White House to issue lists of when Fauci made mistakes.
“This idea that our president is following the advice of someone like Chuck Woolery, or promoting these kinds of words of the type whose biggest claim to fame is being the host of Love Connection or a name in a Beastie Boys song is simply a Insanity, ‘said epidemiologist Anne Rimoin, in an interview with MSNBC.
Ben Sommers, a doctor who teaches at Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health, said the retweet was harmful.
“When the president says the guidance is wrong and supports the view that these public health experts are lying, it makes it incredibly difficult for the public to know what to do,” he told The Washington Post.
Woolery’s career as a game presenter started in the 1970s and ended in 2007
In 2002 Woolery organized a contest to find out who had the ‘most beautiful armpits’
“It erodes our government’s long-term ability to provide one of its basic objectives, which is to protect public safety.”
Beto O’Rourke, a former Texas congressman and Democratic presidential candidate, was desperate for the tweet.
“This virus is out of control, without leadership from our governor, without leadership from the president, who, as you mentioned, is tweeting Chuck Woolery’s health guide in place of Dr. Fauci,” he said.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany asked about the retweet, defended the president’s criticism of Fauci, and reinforced the president’s attacks on government health experts.
He accused ‘some corrupt individuals’ at the CDC of misleading the public and defended Trump’s Woolery retweet by saying he was calling scientists for getting involved in politics.
“In general, the notion of the tweet was to point to the fact that when we use science, we have to use it in a way that is not political,” he said.
Beto O’Rourke, a former Texas congressman and Democratic presidential candidate, was desperate for the tweet. “This virus is out of control, without leadership from our governor, without leadership from the president, who, as you mentioned, is tweeting Chuck Woolery’s health guide in place of Dr. Fauci,” he said.
But the retweet was derided on social media by critics of Trump.
Ted Lieu, a California congressman, defended the scientists and accused the president of deciding to “stab him in the back during a pandemic.”
He later tweeted: ‘Dear @chuckwoolery,’ with a link to an LA Times account from a hospital chaplain.
Bryan Behar, an Emmy-nominated writer, tweeted: “We now have TWO game show hosts giving medical advice to the nation.”
Grant Stern, an activist for Occupy Democrats, simply told his 100,000 followers: “Trump values Chuck Woolery’s opinion of Dr. Fauci.”
Woolery is a conservative and an active advocate for the Republican Party and is a gun rights activist. He has been married four times and has at least five children. Photographed with his fourth wife Kim Barnes at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in 2019
Woolery was the original host of Wheel of Fortune, presenting the show from 1975 to 1981.
He organized a series of dating shows, and his career culminated in 2007 with Game Show Network’s Lingo.
Woolery is a conservative, gun rights activist and active supporter of the Republican Party.
He has been married four times and has at least five children.
With his first wife, Margaret Hayes, he had two children together: Katherine and Chad. Chad died in a motorcycle accident in January 1986.
In 1972 he married actress Jo Ann Pflug and they had a daughter, Melissa, but they divorced in 1980.
His third wife was Teri Nelson with whom he has two children, Michael and Sean. In 2006 he married his fourth wife, Kim Barnes.
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