Posted on 04/03/2020 4:48:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
In his first three years in office President Donald Trump has been able to survive various “scandals,” such as the Mueller investigation into Russian collusion and the Ukrainian quid pro quo that ended in a failed impeachment conviction. Notwithstanding these rocky moments, Trump did not detour from his duties in protecting Americans -- he had both ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Iran’s General Qasem Soleimani eliminated while simultaneously keeping the U.S. from another potential war in the Middle East. He was also able to do what no prior president has done over his first 35 months, keeping the unemployment to less than 4% at 3.9% -- the closest was Dwight Eisenhower, when the rate averaged 4.3% between February 1953 and December 1955. As Stanford’s Hoover Institution research fellow Bruce Thornton said: “The opposition Democrats looked increasingly likely to be settling one of two old, rich, white mediocrities as their standard-bearer for November [election day], with nothing to recommend them other than utopian, expensive anti-free market policies and their irrational hatred of Donald Trump.”
However, since the COVID-19 outbreak, the invisible enemy has thus far infected over 140,000 Americans and killed over 2,600. The economy has taken a massive hit as Wall Street’s 11-year bull run came to an end, ushering in a recession as shutdowns of economic activity roll across America; the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits soared to a record-shattering 3.283 million. Now that Trump’s presidency is being tested like no other in the modern period, how will history judge his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, especially since he’s been criticized by the usual suspects for mishandling the situation?
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In my book, thank God is at the helm during this worldwide crisis.
It is a PASS/FAIL test.
He is PASSING considering this is a “course” that is developing as the days pass.
It is time for him to ADD new voice to the team of Fauchi and Birx. They seem to close to the same exact mindset. I want a couple voices to challenge them and their modelling.
Trump administration ended pandemic early-warning program to detect coronaviruses
Amazing Polly | Real World or Simulation
https://youtu.be/cAnSkQojE_4
Just imagine what this would have been like if the economy and unemployment had remained at 0bama levels, and had Hillary Clinton in charge who wouldn’t have suspended travel from China. We would be ten times worse than Italy. The dead would already be in the hundreds of thousands.
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