Posted on 04/05/2020 8:23:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In defending his strategy against the deadly coronavirus, President Donald Trump repeatedly has said he slowed its spread into the United States by acting decisively to bar travelers from China on Jan. 31.
“I was criticized by the Democrats when I closed the Country down to China many weeks ahead of what almost everyone recommended. Saved many lives,” he tweeted, for instance, on March 2.
But Reuters has found that the administration took a month from the time it learned of the outbreak in late December to impose the initial travel restrictions amid furious infighting.
During that time, the National Security Council staff, the state department and other federal agencies argued about everything from how best to screen for sick travelers to the economic impact of any restrictions, according to two government officials familiar with the deliberations.
The NSC staff ultimately proposed aggressive travel restrictions to high-level administration officials - but it took at least a week more for the president to adopt them, one of the government officials said.
In meetings, Matthew Pottinger, deputy national security adviser and a China expert, met opposition from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow, said two former NSC officials and one of the government officials involved in the deliberations. The two top aides were concerned about economic fallout from barring travelers from China, the sources said.
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The MSM & Dems are on full attack mode today.
They’re trying their best to discredit Trump & win the Nov. election, cuz it’s all the have.
You can't beat monday morning quarterbacking.
But here's what we do the next time this happens.
Immediate shut down of travel to and from the country of origin.
I mean lock it down tight.
Only when it aids them politically.
The Monday quartering has begun!
Yep - first they pilloried the President for taking “unprecedented and xenophobic measure and now they say he didn’t do it fast enough...go figure.
Thanks to PDJT, most of the country now disregards (or laughs off) this kind of drivel.
Oh good God. Even at that time Trump was partly criticized as being a meanie for banning “Chinese”.
Just like for putting the wall up against illegals/”Mexicans” and the tepid travel ban on “Moslems”.
BTW, never hear about the border down there now, do we? Seems suddenly closing up the border went off without a hitch of PC!
What a dopey exercise.
Please name a Democrat who publicly advocated a China travel ban before the president implemented it. We’ll wait.
Except that hindsight is never 20/20, as there is never any guarantee that a different course of action would have landed us in a better place.
REUTERS = BULL$HIT!
“ hug a Chinese “....
During that time, the National Security Council staff, the state department and other federal agencies argued about everything from how best to screen for sick travelers to the economic impact of any restrictions, according to two government officials familiar with the deliberations.
The NSC staff ultimately proposed aggressive travel restrictions to high-level administration officials - but it took at least a week more for the president to adopt them, one of the government officials said.
“During that time,” the majority of the House of Representatives was straining at gnats and swallowing camels in an effort to impeach and convict the president over a trifle. Or less than a trifle.“I was criticized by the Democrats when I closed the Country down to China many weeks ahead of what almost everyone recommended. “
The truth, deny it who will.Lousy rotten second-guessers who, when it mattered, were doing their worst to rob President Trump of the moral authority to take unprecedented action.
A few days ago someone said that he was being blamed for acting too quickly, and acting not quickly enough...
There was a little thing called impeachment also going on.
“On Jan 31st it WASN’T CLEAR to the so-called “experts” what the virus was going to do.
On January 26, Fauci said it was nothing to worry about.
It’s interesting to see how they work, isn’t it? An angle such as this is garnering the derision it deserves - right now. A few thousand repetitions and it’s a major campaign point. The people doing this absolutely know they’re lying and so, at first, do the people repeating it. In time they come to believe, and they make policy decisions based on the myth.
The only people saying shut it down early enough were here on this board. And some of those are always activating that because we all know and have known the Chinese are a bunch of arrogant thieving truly racist bastards full of hubris a false confidence, pride, that comes from using slave labor to create industry from stolen technology. And they lie, bigly
30 days is minutes when getting something done at the federal level.
And just where is the “Millions streamed in from Mexico.” headline the press is unwilling to write?
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