TRUMP AND CHINA: A LOVE STORY

AnnCoulter Dot Com ^ | 22 Apr 2020 | Ann Coulter

[Rummyfan]

Liberals claim to be appalled that Trump didn’t issue his stay-at-home protocols for the Wuhan virus back in January or early February.

What do you think the media’s reaction would have been if Trump had started babbling about a viral pandemic in the middle of his impeachment trial?

Let’s see. On Jan. 28, Trump released his long-awaited “Middle East Peace Plan,” which was immediately denounced by everyone except Jared Kushner and Sheldon Adelson. Still, the last 1 million Middle East Peace Plans led to tons of think pieces, analyses and arguments.

Here’s how Trump’s “Peace Plan” was reported:

“Tonight, impeached and indicted. Seems like a good time for a distraction: Their plan for peace in the Middle East.” -- Becky Anderson, CNN, Jan. 28, 2020

“The Trump administration has dubbed it the deal of the century. Critics see it as a PR stunt to distract from Trump's impeachment.” -- Michele Kelemen, NPR's "All Things Considered," Jan. 28, 2020

“Many analysts and supporters of a two-state solution to the [Middle East] conflict have called the promised rollout of the plan this week a distraction from Mr. Trump's impeachment trial.” -- The New York Times, Jan. 25, 2020

There are plenty of reasons to attack Trump for the virus sweeping our country, but the media are mad at him for not doing something that would have been absurd: shutting down the country when there wasn’t a single Wuhan flu death in the nation and the media had barely mentioned it.

In fact, the first time most news consumers heard about the latest Chinese coronavirus was when liberals attacked Trump for shutting down travel from China at the end of January.

The Times responded with an op-ed titled, “Who Says It’s Not Safe to Travel to China?” ...

[Steve_Seattle]

"Liberals claim to be appalled that Trump didn’t issue his stay-at-home protocols for the Wuhan virus back in January or early February."

Despite leftist BS, nobody in the country would have agreed with a stay-at-home order back then. The first corona virus death on American soil occurred on February 6th (some sources put it even later), and there were only about 25 known cases of the virus in the entire country.

In fact the cases did not begin to spike until mid-March, right around the time Trump declared a national emergency, and the deaths did not begin to spike until late March and early April. On March 30th, there were still 12 states with no corona virus deaths, and 25 states with fewer than 5. Another six had between 6 and 10 deaths.

[libh8er]

It’s easy for this freak to sit at a keyboard and type away. Aww.. because Trump only did 98% of the things he promised.

[ronnie raygun]

The silent enemy he refers to so many times at the briefing is not the virus ITS CHINA

[bobby.223]

Yes it is. The remainder of Ann’s article at the link talks about the China Anchor Baby problem also. What a disaster!

[Nifster]

meh

Ann Coulter

[BlackAdderess]

It looks like birth tourism operators are facing arrest and shutdowns during the Trump administration, just Googling it.

Sometimes Ann has good points, but I’d like to see back up.

[A_perfect_lady]

She’s not wrong. Had he brought it up during that trial, they would have said that it was a complete hoax and he was fear-mongering to distract America from the impeachment trial. And THEN, when it became serious, he’d have been accused of creating it himself.