Posted on 04/20/2020 10:39:35 AM PDT by Starman417
Right now the left is wetting itself in joy circulating a New York Times story suggesting Donald Trump knew early on about the Wuhan (COVID 19) virus.
He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus
An examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response.Sounds simple, doesn't it? This is some pretty amazing hindsight but it leaves out a huge obstacle....
A week after the first coronavirus case had been identified in the United States, and six long weeks before President Trump finally took aggressive action to confront the danger the nation was facing — a pandemic that is now forecast to take tens of thousands of American lives — Dr. Mecher was urging the upper ranks of the nation’s public health bureaucracy to wake up and prepare for the possibility of far more drastic action.
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The president, though, was slow to absorb the scale of the risk and to act accordingly, focusing instead on controlling the message, protecting gains in the economy and batting away warnings from senior officials. It was a problem, he said, that had come out of nowhere and could not have been foreseen.
democrats.
Let's crank up the Wayback Machine again and go over the timeline
Jan. 14: WHO says Corona is not contagious person to person
The first US case of COVID 19 occured on Jan. 20. The man had returned from a trip to China. There were two more cases diagnosed in January, also returnees from China.
So for the lefties, that's three cases in January. Three.
Donald Trump formed the Corona Task Force on January 30 and on January 31 enacted the China Travel Ban. (For those claiming he really didn't ban travel, you're wrong. Those allowed in were US citizens returning to the US)
Nancy Pelosi's reaction?
“The Trump Administration’s expansion of its outrageous, un-American travel ban threatens our security, our values and the rule of law. The sweeping rule, barring more than 350 million individuals from predominantly African nations from traveling to the United States, is discrimination disguised as policy,” Pelosi said in a statement.Joe Biden immediately called the travel ban "xenophobic."“With this latest callous decision, the President has doubled down on his cruelty and further undermined our global leadership, our Constitution and our proud heritage as a nation of immigrants,” she added.
“But neither should we panic or fall back on xenophobia. Labeling COVID-19 a foreign virus does not displace accountability for the misjudgments that have been take thus far by the Trump administration,” Biden said.He said Trump was "fear mongering."
Feb.1 Trump orders screening and quarantine of those entering form China.
At this time democrats were still basking in the self-congratulatory glow of impeachment proceedings and were focused on nothing else, praying that the Senate trial would result in the removal of Donald Trump. The ink from the impeachment pens wasn't even dry when...
Feb. 4: Trump addresses the Corona virus in SOTU speech. Pelosi rips it up.
Feb. 12: House committee votes to rescind the Trump travel ban
The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted, 22-10, to terminate President Donald Trump's expanded travel ban and rein in presidential authority to issue such travel restrictions.The first COVID 19 death in the US occurred on Feb. 29.
Trump is under unrelenting pressure from democrats for every little thing he does. They are actively trying to remove him from office and yammering about his over-response to the COVID 19 virus.
So now, with that as a backdrop, the bottom line I ask you- what do you imagine would be the democrat response were Trump in January or early February- with all of three cases and no deaths- to have said
"We must close all non-essential American businesses, limit airline flights, enact social tracking and social distancing, and close all schools for the foreseeable future."I can imagine.
Still oblivious to the outbreak, democrats would have crucified Trump. democrats, led by Schumer, would have accused him of becoming a dictator. Schiff and Pelosi would have leaped to start impeachment proceedings anew. Schiff would have fabricated another phony Trump connection to the Russians again. Some a**hole liberal judge would have blocked Trump. They would have implored the Supreme Court to stop Trump. They would have claimed he's making things up to get reelected.
They would have crippled Trump. democrats didn't even take the virus seriously until late February.
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The truth is irrelevant.
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if President Trump cured sickle cell anemia, He’d be accused of racism by the msm
It’s very clear that WHATEVER the President does they will criticize him.
Let’s not forget that as late as Feb 17, Dr Fauci, the leading infectious disease guy in the U.S. was telling Americans that the risk of coronavirus in USA is ‘minuscule’, So according to the history revision by the Dems and their media hacks, Trump was supposed to know more that the WHO and America’s leading expert on infectious diseases.
If WHO said on Jan 21 that the virus was not contagious person to person, then when did they say virus WAS contagious person to person? Can’t find it.
They were already ripping him apart, they haven’t stopped since election day.
At that time they had him on trial in the Senate on bogus impeachment charges.
This is true. They don’t actually want anything done to stop the virus.
1. They hope it will kill large numbers of Trump supporters.
2. The worse the virus is, the longer the shutdown. That brings them power. Their plan is to stay shut down at lest through November 3 to destroy the economy in hopes that that will win them the election.
Can you imagine Biden handling this problem???
The lying leftist media condemns Trump no matter what he does.
THEY will be the ones eventually hanging from lampposts for their lies/frauds/betrals/treason. Thats assumingthe mobds want to wait that long.
“Leftists lie as easily as they Breath”
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