I’m failing to understand the word trap. Seriously.
In the presser you gave the link to, Trump mentioned the 15 in WA who were infected and how that would get down to very few and how the admin was doing a good job.
Trump said that “it could be at a...larger level.”
So, he indicated at that point the same as he did throughout that press briefing, that they were preparing for a larger outbreak whether it happened or not.
Its time for both sides to stop trying to word-trap somebody for things they said at the very beginning of this pandemic. Most of us knew nothing about this disease two months ago, so of course, our responses may have changed since then.
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Its not a word trap. Its a matter of the advice he was giving on Feb 29.
magnum44 posted a great gif...
And then I posted that on Feb 29, in response to this CDC comment..."It's not so much a question of if this will happen anymore, but rather more of a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will have severe illness," she said...." that Trump said "I don't think it's inevitable...It possibly will. It could be at a very small level or it could be at a larger level. Whatever happens, we're totally prepared."
Now, we can bicker and argue about the qualifiers, but the bottom line is that on Feb 29, Trump didn't think the current hell under which we're all living was inevitable. These words of Trump's - and other words of his - are not all that great with 20-20 vision.
Now, Trump did lots of good things along the way - the travel ban, for example - so he wasn't totally out of the loop. And he never said 'I found out about this by watching TV." I'm not going to hold Trump nor Fauci or any other person to words/utterances from a month or so ago. There are lots of people who thought this was worth monitoring and precautions should be taken but who didn't fathom we'd be where we are now. And that's ok - nobody's clairvoyant. What's pretty important, to me, is how they're handling life now. Remember what Patton (allegedly) said: I dont measure a mans success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
I still think Trump is a great President, I'd rather have him vs Hillary and a zillion other people at the CEO of the Executive Branch. But to bash Fauci (who I don't trust at all, btw) for this or that utterance 45 days or so ago but to give Trump a pass for similar utterances is akin to what the Obamabots did from 2009-2016.