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.
“Why post crap from the Hill?”
The Hill comments sections are 10x worse. Take a look sometime. The most rabid lefties and woke dominate it. Vomiting up garbage they got from the mass media and their university professors.
And The Hill is very popular. I can tell by the large number of comments. I have seen some Hill articles with 1000+ comments. This is far from unusual.
“Why post crap from the Hill?”
Because we need to have every damned article from them, Breitbart, and Politico posted here every day.
PRINT THIS UP AND GET THIS OUT THERE BECAUSE NOBODY KNOWS THIS
Now they’re protecting the source which IS China and the Chinese Communist Party by claiming we’re responsible
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THAT BIDEN WIN IS AN AWARD TO CHINA FOR INVADING US USING COVID 19
The CCP Effort praised by this CCP scientist working on doing so
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3960570/posts
Here’s that compliment paid to the CCP by the Biden campaign for bringing in the virus which they admitted really helped fix it to get Biden elected http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts
Every time an American looked at an item for where it was made in it came from China. Now China’s reliance making everything was being threatened by a change in leadership in America which was a major consumer of those products. When Americans hailed their leaders decision to make many of them in their country US. Their politburo worried.
THIS WAS GOING ON WHILE CCP SCIENTISTS WERE WORKING ON COVID
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3966395/posts
Worse yet opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies , as in Hong Kong, since that change in American leadership, wave the American flag and present Trump’s name when doing so.
All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader Donald Trump. In totalitarian political circles this strategy has been reported to be frequently considered Would a runaway plague created by a nation which could threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy and create defeat for that leader’s upcoming election.When they released it that was the CCP intention but it got away from them and went world wide and they should be made to pay
Here’s that compliment paid to the CCP by the Biden campaign for bringing in the virus which they admitted really helped fix it to get Biden elected http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts
All three are absolute lies. I was there. I remember all these situations. Remember, this, and don’t let anyone get away with the same.
If Trump denied the very existence of the virus or the potency of it, then why did Trump shut down travel between China and the US. Trump did that against the advice of FauxChi and other advisors? Everyone should hear Peter Navarro talk about this. He was there. Trump listened to those in Navarro camp to lay blame squarely on China and take action early. If you recall, everyone was calling Trump a xenophobe for his early actions. Those people were in the CCP camp and remain there.
Great time line, Padre.
Thanks for posting it.
Andyslavitt sounds like a Sexually Transmitted Disease.
It’s a typical democrat act they do it on every one of their issues the spin machine never stops.
Media approved
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