Gov. Brian Kemp Unloads on Trump Over COVID Response: ‘He May Not Remember, but I Sure as Hell Do’

RedState ^ | September 9, 2023 | Jeff Charles

[chickenlips]

Are the gloves starting to come off? If a recent post on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, is any indication, high-profile Republicans and conservatives are starting to attack former President Donald Trump over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic while he was in office.

Advertisement Even before the primary season began in earnest, many speculated that his support of lockdown orders and vaccines could become his Achilles heel. But so far, few on the right have raised the issue as they have been hesitant to attack Trump directly. Things appear to be changing, as Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp posted a response to a video the former president made in which he decried leftists trying to bring back mask mandates.

In the video, Trump said that “left wing lunatics are trying very hard to bring back COVID lockdowns and mandates with all of their sudden fearmongering” about the emergence of new coronavirus variants. “They want to restart the COVID hysteria so they can justify more lockdowns, more censorship, more illegal dropboxes, more mail in ballots, and trillions of dollars in payoffs” in the leadup to the upcoming election.

In a post on Saturday, Kemp wrote:

The fact is former president Trump led the opposition to my decision to reopen Georgia - the first state in the country to do so.

While he listened to Fauci & parroted media talking points, I listened to hardworking Georgians.

He may not remember, but I sure as hell do.

[mass55th]

And you call yourself an adult? How arrogant are you that you never bothered to check out my posts from day one, but instead, assumed I was one of the morons that bought into the crap that was being spoon-fed to the gullible people. I never bought into any of it. In fact, my first thought when I heard about Covid in China was that China had deliberately released it, so they wouldn’t have to comply with the trade deals Trump forced on them. And I still believe that. I learned a very long time ago to question everything, and everybody, and trust very little, if ever. I also learned that the only stupid question, was the one you didn’t ask. If you were calling people out back then, it sure as hell wasn’t me.