Posted on 03/22/2020 8:56:02 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday sharply criticized President Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic, arguing that the federal government has not done enough to ramp up production of life-saving medical supplies like masks and ventilators and asking the president to deploy the military across the country.
“The president of the United States is from New York City and he will not lift a finger to help his hometown, and I don’t get it," de Blasio said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
"I don’t get it. Right now, I have asked repeatedly for the military to be mobilized, for the Defense Production Act to be used to its fullest to get us things like ventilators, so people can live who would die otherwise," he continued. “If the president doesn’t act, people will die who could have lived otherwise - senior citizens, folks who are members of families.”
“Why are they at their bases? Why are they not being allowed to serve? I guarantee you they are ready to serve, but the president has to give the order,” he said.
The comments sparked a back-and-forth with Gov. Larry Hogan of Maryland, a Republican, who said that looking backward is not productive.
“I don’t think just talking about what was done wrong yesterday or last week or last year is really that helpful in the discussion,” Hogan said.
“We are getting some progress. Now, it’s not nearly enough, it’s not fast enough, we’re way behind the curve,” he said, adding that the unified effort is making progress on getting respirators, masks and tests.
“It’s not a perfect situation. It’s going to take the federal, state and local governments all stepping up and doing whatever it takes regardless of who is supposed to do what,” he added.
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this idiot has been busy letting criminals savage
the population, and now letting LEO get the disease
because HE feels they are ‘expendible’.
The governor has been saying the exact opposite.
And another commie begins to stir the pot. Good luck to the good people of NYC, this sihthead is going to ruin what little is left of this once great town.
..and of course, New York State couldn’t help themselves because.????
What does the Mayor of NYC think should happen?
I think he’s calling for outright communism. If Trump doesn’t, as Nancy Pelosi said, “take control of production” (the very definition of communism), these communists will continue to complain.
Very fake news from a very fake mayor. He is insane.
Oh, look, son...a communist chicken running around with its head cut off!!
This communist POS created the petri dish....let him swim in it.
Screw you commie diversity scumbag.
This is their poster boy. A complete criminal douche
Stuff it! Isn’t Trump sending one of those hospital ships to your decrepit city?
Pssst, Bill, you didn’t get the memo. We are pivoting now to the “its been overblown by Trump” meme. He’s getting praise for the handling of this so we have to take steps to end it ASAP.
Even his staff knows deBlasio is full of sh!t.
He sounds just like Nancy Pelosi, talking...bet they get together and write their chats...smh
Idiot, you don’t get it, ever!
Oh, look, son...a communist chicken running around with its head cut off!!
This communist POS created the petri dish....let him swim in it.
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It would warm my heart to hear PDJT call him this. “communist chicken running around with its head cut off!!”
We might help you as soon as you start arresting bad guys and keep them in jail. Second rescind the Sanctuary City laws.
so says the man that was late to the party ................if they did their blood is on his hands, not Pres Trump’s
His wording is suspiciously similar to Lawrence O’Donnell’s:
“More people are sick in American tonight, because Donald Trump is president. More people are dead and dying in America tonight because Donald Trump is president.” (MRC, Mar.13, 2020).
New Dem/Media Propaganda Wing strategy is this slanderous and evil statement.
They should not be allowed to get away with that. It causes unhinged leftists at home to think of planning the unthinkable to get back at our President. God forbid.
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