Posted on 10/04/2020 7:56:43 PM PDT by karpov
President Trump is not a basement guy.
Sure, he could have done a Joe Biden and hidden in the White House the last five months, a president under quarantine cowering from the Chinese virus.
The symbolism would have been disastrous for the mightiest nation on the planet. Trump had to show fearlessness in the face of the virus. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last week called his refusal to kowtow to the coronavirus a “brazen invitation” to get sick.
But, as the president told his old friend Rudy Giuliani, Saturday afternoon, he took the risks he had to take, because: “Great generals do not lead from behind. They get out front and motivate the troops.”
He was speaking to the former Big Apple mayor by phone from his hospital room at Walter Reed Medical Center, where he was flown by helicopter after his oxygen levels began to fall.
“I knew there was a risk that I could catch [the virus]. But if I couldn’t accept that risk, I should resign . . .
“I am the president of the United States. I can’t lock myself in a room . . . I had to confront it so the American people stopped being afraid of it so we could deal with it responsibly.
“I couldn’t hide in the White House . . .
“If I had handled it any other way, I would have created more panic, more fear in the American people . . .
“I’m going to beat this. Then I will be able to show people we can deal with this disease responsibly, but we shouldn’t be afraid of it.”
Giuliani, widely praised for his leadership during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, knows a thing or two about leadership.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Now he has immunity and Sleepy Joe doesn’t. Hello basement.
From what I have seen Biden is still hiding out in his basement.
That’s my President, and I love him.
He is easy to love.
Tweet: Catherine Herridge, CBS
NEW: Doctors okayed POTUS drive-by supporters. Deputy Press Secretary tells @markknoller “Appropriate precautions were taken in the execution of this movement to protect POTUS + all those supporting it, including PPE...cleared by the medical team as safe to do.” @CBSNews
5 Oct 2020
https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1312906142968930305
...............as nearly always he is exactly right!!!
It took guts for POTUS to take experimental medicine.
bigbob wrote:
“Now he has immunity and Sleepy Joe doesn’t. Hello basement.”
Between 1 Jan and now, was there any 2 week period when hiden biden ‘went dark’ and made no appearances?
Could he have hidden a possible WuhanVirus infection?
If not, then, basement indeed!
(He’s got a runny nose & cough, so....)
The President should cough a little at the next debate and make Biden and the press apoplectic.
Me too but we have to win the HoR and Senate to do any real good.
The quote is great. Trump tried to convey that in his tweet but it was as eloquently said. I love off the cuff Trump more than anything but I think he should do a national address saying this and it should be practiced until it’s delivered brilliantly. I feel this is exactly what the people need to hear.
I seriously think the Dems thought, “Oh, we’ll give him a virus, then unelected doctors we approve of can control him, do the same with the VP, and voila, President Pelosi (or someone just like her).”
If the Dems can control the physical (not to mention verbal) behaviors of any POTUS, imagine what they have in store for the rest of us.
We are dealing with real, true evil.
Yes we are.
Once totally recovered, he will be “free at last, free at last” from the worry about catching the virus. His rallies, always good, will be epic (a nightmare for the Left, ha ha). Melania & others important to him like Hope Hicks & his campaign manager will also be “free”.
Every day, I see the NY Daily News alongside the NY Post. Comparing the front page is entertaining.
NYDN is grotesque. NY Post is most often favorable.
then one of the medical team boasted him on twitter for taking needless risks....Inwas glad to see the report by herridge
Nice post. One of the best journalist pieces I have read in a long while. PING!
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