Posted on 06/13/2021 5:34:18 PM PDT by RandFan
Andy Slavitt, a former senior adviser for the White House coronavirus response team, said on Sunday that the Trump administration committed three "deadly sins" in its handling of the pandemic.
Slavitt, during an interview with host John Dickerson on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” criticized former President Trump for denying the existence of the virus and playing into the country's divisions while his aides quashed dissent. Slavitt, who stepped down from his position in the Biden administration last week, said Trump’s power to convince his followers that the virus did not exist or was not as potent as it was made the pandemic “a very different situation.”
“The first was his power that he believed to deny the very existence of the virus or the potency of it and to get his followers to go along with it,” Slavitt said.
“If he simply hadn't done that and simply said, hey, we've got a problem, we would have been in a very different situation,” he added.
Another sin Slavitt said Trump committed was "taking the divisions in the country and playing into them," which he said was "really almost extra credit."
Slavitt said "being a populist during a pandemic is really not a great combination."
“You're gonna have to make some tough decisions. You're gonna have to make people unhappy, and I think Trump saw in his base a stirring of anti-mask characterizations and other things, and he played into those things because I think it felt like a different route,” Slavitt said.
“I think those were things that cost us a lot of lives,” said Slavitt, who is promoting his book that will be released on Tuesday, “Preventable: The Inside Story of How Leadership Failures, Politics, and Selfishness Doomed the U.S. Coronavirus Response.”
Slavitt also said officials' “quashing of dissent” contributed to the pandemic.
“Early in this pandemic, in February, they sent out orders, the Department of Health and Human Services. For 45 days, they were not even allowed to talk to the press simply because [former Secretary] Alex Azar wanted to say the expression that things were going fine but could change rapidly,” Slavitt said.
“Anybody that disagreed with the narrative the president wanted was squashed,” he added.
It would be interesting to see, interspersed into your timeline of all the actions Trump took in January and February 2020, the things that Nancy Pelosi and Governor Cuomo were saying and doing relative to Covid.
From HCQ To Hunter’s Laptop: Trump Shreds Democrats Over Vindicated Bombshells!:
June 13, 2021
Former President Trump trolled Democrats this weekend, releasing a list of claims he says he’s been vindicated over. The statement reads:
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
Have you noticed that they are now admitting I was right about everything they lied about before the election?
Hydroxychloroquine works
The Virus came from a Chinese lab
Hunter Biden’s laptop was real
Lafayette Square was not cleared for a photo op
The “Russian Bounties” story was fake
We did produce vaccines before the end of 2020, in record time
Blue state lockdowns didn’t work
Schools should be opened
Critical Race Theory is a disaster for our schools and our Country
Our Southern Border security program was unprecedentedly successful
Speaking from his Bedminster, New Jersey golf course, Trump said: “‘We were right! Listen to this: Hydroxychloroquine works. The virus came from a Chinese lab – it just came out. Hunter Biden’s laptop was real. They tried to say it was made by Russia. Russia. Russia. Russia.”
“Lafayette Square was not cleared for a photo op. That just came out and I want to thank the Inspector General for having the courage to come out with the truth. The ‘Russian Bounties’ story was fake. Remember that? We produced vaccines before the end of 2020 in record time,” Trump added.
Bunch of bullsquirt. I remember everyone and their dog belittling him and calling him a racist for stopping travel from communist China. I remember him ordering NO covid positive people be brought into the America AT ALL. But the CDC and State department overrode that without telling him. They flew a few planeloads of US tourists in from Japan mixing positive and uninfected people.
I remember Pelosi and other politicians going to Chinatown, hugging Chinese people, etc.
This is a damned lie.
Accuse the other side of what you are doing.
Andy Slavitt is a career bureaucrat failed Obama holdover. He needed an ethics waiver just to get a government job and wasted millions on programs that didn’t work. Punk.
The hill is just another wing of the WP. Total lies.
Great data Amigo.
Do you have a link to all of this.
Thanks
Dave
Bkmk
Biden shows the World his brain is gone and the first thing Biden’s people do is attack Trump ,LOL
Why postcrap? Because we are informing ourselves about our enemies.
The left inflated the seriousness of the disease so as to get rid of Trump.
Uh...we were all there, you can’t rewrite history.
Who cares?
I was hearing so much garbage on TV and internet news, I decided to set out a summary of facts for my own use so that I wouldn’t forget. The chart was made from several published charts and articles during January/February. The Chinese New Year info I found on a search.
The only “sin” of Trump was to pay any attention to Dr. Death (Fauxi).
President Donald J Trump didn’t believe there was a virus……
THATS WHY HE MADE SURE THERE,WAS A VACCINE. !!!!
Idiot !!!
President Donald J Trump didn’t believe there was a virus……
THATS WHY HE MADE SURE THERE,WAS A VACCINE. !!!!
Idiot !!!
Why do we, the esteemed readers of the FR need to read this garbage?
This is not the way I remember it at all. He must have had a pipedream. The problem that caused so many unnecessary deaths was the liberal lies against the use of HCQ, Zing + Z-pack. The media were at war against Trump and HCQ.
Trump knew exactly what the virus was. He knew it would kill a lot of vulnerable people. He tried to reassure people to minimize fear and damage to the economy, while allowing states to manage the medical side of it. He ensured maximum availability, within his authority, of PPE, ventilators, drugs and other supplies. It was when blue state governors like Cuomo, Murphy, Whitmer and the other clowns completely screwed the pooch that they looked to blame Trump.
Was he perfect? No. But even if he were, he would still be blamed for the failures that occurred at the state, county and city level, where "public health" officials had been focused on social justice rather than disease.
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