Posted on 04/13/2020 4:42:08 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Well, this was inevitable, wasn’t it? – As the Wuhan Virus outbreak pretty clearly hit the top of the curve and began to turn over late in the week, the corrupt hacks at CNN led the media/Democrat effort to now begin revising history. That requires a new narrative, and the new narrative, kicked off on Jake Tapper’s Sunday show, is that “lives could have been saved had the evil Trump just acted sooner.”
Making things easier for Tapper and other corrupt Democrat media toadies to concoct the new narrative is Dr. Anthony Fauci, who is more than willing to cooperate in a smear effort in order to cover his own behind. Unfortunately for Fauci, as you will see in the dueling clips below, his remarks to Tapper on Sunday directly contradict the advice he was giving both the President and the public as late as February 29, a full month after President Trump took the major step of banning non-essential travel into the U.S. from China and other countries:
Lis Power @LisPower1 · 21h Tapper: Do you think lives could have been saved if stay at home measures started when they were first suggested?
Fauci (summarized, and without all the superfluous words): Yes, obviously. https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1249325601804161028 …
John Whitehouse @existentialfish Fauci on NYT report on the Trump administration delaying social distancing: "Obviously, you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier, you could have saved lives. Obviously, no one is going to deny that."
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Steph @steph93065 This is what Fauci was telling the public on February 29 pic.twitter.com/RL45poVmS8
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Fauci on Feb. 29: “Right now, at this moment, there is no need to change anything you’re doing on a day-by-day basis. Right now the risk is still low. But this could change. I’ve said that many times even on this program. You’ve got to watch out, because although the risk is low now, you don’t need to change anything you’re doing. When you start to see community spread, this could change.”
The big controversy this morning is that President Trump, in one of his periodic re-tweeting frenzies, re-tweeted a message that ended with this hashtag: “#FireFauci”:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump Sorry Fake News, it’s all on tape. I banned China long before people spoke up. Thank you @OANN https://twitter.com/deanna4congress/status/1249457858686656512 …
DeAnna Lorraine 🇺🇸 ✔ @DeAnna4Congress Fauci is now saying that had Trump listened to the medical experts earlier he could've saved more lives.
Fauci was telling people on February 29th that there was nothing to worry about and it posed no threat to the US public at large.
Time to #FireFauci...
91.8K 5:51 PM - Apr 12, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 46K people are talking about this Of course, what the President means by “it’s all on tape” is Fauci’s comments from February 29 and other media appearances that took place long after Trump began to implement major actions to fight the Wuhan Virus. And it isn’t just Fauci who is “on tape”: We have video clips of Nancy Pelosi telling folks in San Francisco’s China Town on Feb. 24 not to worry, to just go out and have a great time. We have clips of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio participating in Chinese New Year celebrations in late February and talking about not cancelling the massive annual St. Patrick’s Day parade as late as March 13. And we wonder why New York City has been the epicenter of the national outbreak?
There are myriad other clips of Democrats and Fauci (but I repeat myself) all over Twitter and other social media today urging people to go out and live their lives like nothing was happening weeks after President Trump stood up his White House Coronavirus Task Force and began to take sweeping actions to protect the public. This is not 1918, when Lenin and Stalin could just have their people go into the libraries and change history by burning all the inconvenient books: People who have been paying close attention know what reality is here, and that won’t change. The objective truth is what it is, much as CNN and Jake Tapper would like to ignore it.
Thus, this narrative, like all the previous Democrat/media hoax narratives attacking President Trump, will fail, although the brainwashed people who still get their news from CNN will be able to maintain their perpetual outrage posture against the POTUS.
Does President Trump actually intend to #FireFauci, as the tweet he re-tweeted advocates? No, not much chance of that, although he should have weeks ago realized that the Fauci Agenda (a great name for a Robert Ludlum novel, huh?) did not comport with the agenda of the Trump Administration or the American people. Trump loves having a foil, and whether he intends to be or not, Fauci is about to become the foil as the President this week names his Reopening America task force and moves to gradually restart the economy.
If it is wise to “keep your friends close and your enemies closer,” then Fauci is right where the President wants him to be. Experts in a situation such as this should be there to give advice and otherwise let the elected officials do the talking. To her great credit, Dr. Deborah Birx has largely stuck closely to this model. The attention-hog Fauci hasn’t.
Fauci won’t be fired for Sunday’s latest mouth-shooting betrayal of the President, but he is about to find his advice carrying less and less weight in the days and weeks to come as Trump begins to put America back to work.
That is all.
Good summary article.
The left is smearing Trump on twitter (what else is new) about the China Travel ban saying it wasn’t strict enough.
Our response was: President Trump wasn’t racist enough? So far none of the robots answered this yet. I guess they didn’t get their revised talking points yet.
This was a great way to make them own it.
Yep the left can’t have it both ways.
I can’t wait for today’s press briefing. The suedo-”journalists” will have their daggers out ready for blood. President Trump needs to be on his A-Game today.
Wasn’t Fauci the doctor who said AIDS would make the jump into the heterosexual community in the 1980’s?
Meanwhile back on the Democrat’s ranch, Crazy Joe Biden is being kept in the basement. It’s a Chi-com Covid19 thing you know.
he ONLY did this to gain favor of Pelosi, Gates, and Hillary.
Should fire him and open the economy
The virus went thru the country in December and February
!
Maybe earlier...
The Dr. is in love with himself
He is a IYI
Actual TOTAL deaths are down across the country... because car deaths are way down.
If we all just hunkered down forever, we could, theoretically, stop ALL DEATHS!
Wouldn’t it be great! No more death.
We can do it, together!
Who’s with me?
What it was really about was not designating AIDS as being associated with homosexuality.
AND THIS——Adam Schiff: I Am ‘Diving Deeply’ into What Warnings Trump Ignored on Coronavirus
Breitbart - Politics ^ | 4-12-2020 | Pam Key
Posted on 4/12/2020, 2:42:01 PM by Sir Napsalot
Sunday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said he would investigate what warnings from the intelligence community and health organizations that President Donald Trump ignored in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic.
On “real-time oversight,” Schiff said, “We are right now going through our intelligence holdings. What did the intelligence community make us aware of at the end of last year or earlier this year? Other committees are doing like analyses.”
He continued, “It is very important, I think, in reviewing the intelligence component to this to realize the intelligence piece is just one piece of the warnings coming to the administration. A lot of those warnings were in the public domain. They came from public health organizations, like WHO or CDC or his own National Security Council, and ignored those warnings. (emphasis mine)
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
This means ALL our worries are o-v-e-r (snx). Schiff is ...of course......”bi-partisan.” We’ll soon be hearing:
<><> a thorough examination of why Democrats wasted taxpayers’ time and tax money w/ impeachment as the virus raged in China;
<><> explanations WRT Democrats calling Trump a “xenophobe” and a “racist” for closing borders to China early on;
<><> why Obama’s CDC was focused on gun control, not gearing up for potential epidemics;
<><> how NYC became the epicenter of virus deaths,
<><> Gov Cuomo’s failure to purchase ventilators knowing the potential for a future pandemic?
<><> Mayor DeBlasio’s hand-picked Health Commissioner sap-happily telling New Yorkers there was n-o-t-h-i-n-g to worry about.
Yes he did. IIRC, he predicted within a 'few years' 1 of 6 heteros would have it. He was attempting to make everyone believe it wasn't a homo disease.
“ I can’t wait for today’s press briefing. The suedo-”journalists” will have their daggers out ready for blood. President Trump needs to be on his A-Game today.”
I want to see President Trump quote Fauci’s statements from January, February and March downplaying the severity of the virus; then ask Fauci if he thought it was so bad back at those times, why was he out in public saying the exact opposite?
I want to hear his answer, and I’m sure there are many others who do, too.
I am beginning to wonder if this Faucci dude is just the latest in a string of know-it-alls who think they are smarter than the president and can get him cornered in a box.
Re-assign this guy- make it sound like a REALLY REALLY important data job, but really he sits in a closet reviewing printouts with a supervisor staring over his shoulder all day.
All this “blame Trump for Covid-19” must be pushed back with the facts:
Fact #1: It is the CDC’s rules — that it be the sole provider of virus testing — and their distribution of a faulty and delay-ridden test at the onset of this event — that caused the delay in testing that everyone is citing as cause of spreading in US.
Fact #2: During Obama administration the NIH provided grant to the CHINESE LAB IN WUHAN to make the bat corona virus more potent.
There is no blame to Trump. He is masterfully handling the cluster-f**k that was handed to him by Obama and Obama era hold-over staff.
Good analysis.
Now that he and his modelers are taking heat it’s time for him to put it on President Trump of all people!
Fauci to USA Today Editorial Board well into the ***THIRD WEEK OF FEBRUARY. neither the Board nor Fauci show concern about the US:
17 Feb updated 18 Feb 2020: USA Today: FAUCI: ‘Danger of getting coronavirus now is just minisculely low’
Q: How confident are you that the Chinese are doing what needs to be done?
FAUCI: They’re doing things that have completely broken the paradigm of how you respond. They have been, in a draconian way, shutting down everything. They have locked down 50 million people, including the entire 11 million-person city of Wuhan. They will not allow anyone into Beijing unless they have a 14-day quarantine. They’re essentially locking people who test positive in their houses. I mean, they’re doing things that are almost unheard of in the annals of public health...
Q: That would never happen here, would it? Locking down 50 million people?
FAUCI: No, not a chance. It would never happen...
Q: How can you protect yourself against both flu and coronavirus?
FAUCI: Do what we tell you to do all the time. Wash your hands as frequently as you can. Stay away from crowded places where people are coughing and sneezing. If, in fact you are coughing and sneezing, cover your cough. All the things that we say each year. That’s the thing we should be doing right now. But the danger of getting coronavirus now is just minisculely low.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/02/17/new-coronavirus-what-dont-we-know-dr-anthony-fauci-q-a-opinion/4790996002/
THIRD WEEK IN FEBRUARY AGAIN:
12 Apr: NYT: Trump Lashes Out at Fauci Amid Criticism of Slow Virus Response
The president retweeted a post calling for the government’s top infectious disease specialist to be fired after the doctor acknowledged that shutting down the country earlier could have saved lives.
By Peter Baker
By the THIRD WEEK OF FEBRUARY, advisers had drafted a list of measures they believed would soon be necessary, like school closures, sports and concert cancellations and stay-at-home orders, but the president did not embrace them until mid-March.
Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984, said on Sunday that earlier imposition of such policies would have made a difference...
(Fauci ON CNN) “Obviously, no one is going to deny that. But what goes into those kinds of decisions is complicated. But you’re right. Obviously, if we had, right from the very beginning, shut everything down, it may have been a little bit different. But there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down.”...
Public health experts like Dr. Fauci have urged caution about resuming normal life too soon for fear of instigating another wave of illness and death...
Dr. Fauci has become a celebrated figure among much of the public, which trusts him far more than Mr. Trump, according to polls...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/trump-fauci-coronavirus.html
CNN/NYT/AP/SCHIFF - CONCERTED EFFORT TO GET TRUMP ON EASTER SUNDAY. IF THERE REALLY WAS A GENUINE SCARY PANDEMIC, WOULD THEY REALLY BEHAVE THIS WAY?
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