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Flashback: ‘Our country wasn’t built to be shut down’: Trump pushes back against health experts (March, 2020)
Trump White House Archives ^ | 03/23/2020 | CAITLIN OPRYSKO and QUINT FORGEY

Posted on 08/05/2023 10:08:12 AM PDT by Kazan

Remarks by President Trump at Press Briefing, March 24, 2020:

"Our country wasn’t built to be shut down. This is not a country that was built for this. It was not built to be shut down.

America will again, and soon, be open for business — very soon — a lot sooner than three or four months that somebody was suggesting. A lot sooner. We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. We’re not going to let the cure be worse than the problem."


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KEYWORDS: 2020; covid; desantislies; lockdown; shutdown; trump
DeSantis and his supporters are lying when they say Trump supported lockdowns. He opposed shutting the country down from the start of the pandemic in March of 2020.

The power to lockdown was in the hands of governors and Trump never once pressured red state governors like Kristy Noem to implement lockdowns.

1 posted on 08/05/2023 10:08:12 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan

But one week later Mikey Pence pulled a bait and switch by lowering “two weeks to flatten the curve” and hoisting “thirty days to stop the spread” while scarf lady, FauXi, and DJT looked on approvingly.


2 posted on 08/05/2023 10:11:21 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Kazan

When Easter rolled around and people were still going along with the lockdown nonsense, I knew it was going to be bad. I really did think that lots more people would push back hard against being forbidden to worship together at Easter.


3 posted on 08/05/2023 10:12:04 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Kazan
The power to lockdown was in the hands of governors and Trump never once pressured red state governors like Kristy Noem to implement lockdowns.

Various sources show these seven states (Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming) were not locked down by their governors.

4 posted on 08/05/2023 10:15:05 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: lightman

FauXi..
Aka Science


5 posted on 08/05/2023 10:18:32 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: Kazan

Remarks by President Trump at Press Briefing, March 24, 2020:

“Our country wasn’t built to be shut down. This is not a country that was built for this. It was not built to be shut down.”
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Trump’s instincts were absolutely right on this whole SCHEME. I knew he had finally succumbed to the unrelenting pressure and bull crap when he came out and bad mouthed Sweden for remaining far more open than other EU and Western countries.

He should have TRUSTED HIS INSTINCTS.


6 posted on 08/05/2023 10:19:52 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX’of )
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To: lightman

Scarf lady had Trump by the balls. He was scared of her. One piercing glance from her and Trump melted into an orange puddle.


7 posted on 08/05/2023 11:18:17 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: Kazan

The imperial college of london played a big roll early on. Then their model was found to be trash. Too late though.

https://www.heritage.org/public-health/commentary/failures-influential-covid-19-model-used-justify-lockdowns


8 posted on 08/05/2023 11:38:42 AM PDT by e_castillo
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To: Kazan

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9 posted on 08/05/2023 11:40:41 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: nwrep

That is another lie. That is all DeSantis and his neocon and establishment buddies have.


10 posted on 08/05/2023 12:22:17 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: Kazan
Riggggght...

When Trump Is Watching, Governors’ Decisions Are Never Open-and-Shut

Trump claims he, not governors, has power over states on deciding reopening country

Trump claims ‘total’ authority, over govs, to reopen economy

11 posted on 08/05/2023 1:09:18 PM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: Kazan

So why didn’t Trump fire them?

Why didn’t Trump issue an EO demanding they cease to conduct work on Covid 19?

Why didn’t Trump remove their ability to issue press releases?

People that say Trump did everything he could are simply saying that Trump was not an effective president.


12 posted on 08/05/2023 2:13:51 PM PDT by beancounter13 (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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