Posted on 09/09/2023 1:45:19 PM PDT by 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.
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We’ve known Kemp is scum since late 2020.
And Trump was overseeing Pence. Also, Trump chose Pence to be his running mate in 2016 and again in 2020.
Kemp is uniparty Deep State.
In 2020, he refused to grant the GA legislature a special session to investigate the stolen election.
Trump urges Georgia governor to call special session of state legislature
And now he's refusing to grant the GA legislature a special session to investigate Fanni Willis
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp dismisses GOP calls for special session to impeach DA Fani Willis
While he listened to Fauci & parroted media talking points, I listened to hardworking Georgians.
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Has this guy Kemp always been a freaking backstabbing imbecile? President Trump never pretended to be a doctor or a scientist. He did what any sensible politician would have done and made decisions based on the advice of supposed experts. Unfortunately those he relied upon were untrustworthy because they were on the take for millions of dollars. Meanwhile this jerk Kemp yaps about listening to Hardworking Georgians, all of whom were rightfully bitching about the restrictions but in fact knew absolutely NOTHING about the extent of the disease itself!
“Trump depended on the ‘experts’ and the experts said, “
Not being a politician he had to rely on those around him for advice on who t put in what position and many times the “who” and the one they recommended turned out to be a RINO or member of the Deep State.
DeSantis can’t because he is also guilty. Guilty of not knowing exactly what was behind all of this just as Trump was.
Trump would have never entered into trying to hurt people.
They were all lied to by Deep State and the Globalists.
People know all this and RDS using it is not going to change a thing for him. He is toast.
Pence is the one who appointed Debra Birx to the task force, along with the others that came in after he took over for Alex Azar as task force head.
I didn't say anything about anything else. I made a factual point that is not debatable. But you'll debate it anyways.
I have no idea what that meant.
Poor little Brian, I wonder what he plans to do with the rest of his life after his term is up. He’s hated by the rest of the country about as much as Christie.
Agreed. And to be more accurate, Trump took issue with just one aspect of Georgia’s re-opening - nail salons. In general, Trump had been encouraging local and state officials to re-open. He just had an issue with that particular instance.
Kemp can pearl clutch over this all he wants. Trump may have criticized Kemp over the nail salon issue but he never stopped him from re-opening. But Kemp stopped Trump from winning Georgia’s electoral votes when he refused to address the cheating. I’d say that makes Trump the one who has a right to be angry, not Kemp.
Almost on day one, I heard reports by scientists on radio stating such. Mike Savage talked about the facts re the Wuflu. It was soon clear that these reports were correct.
I am not above anyone here. I stupidly took the first two shots, as a nurse AND someone who already had the virus and sntibodies. The jabs were NOT mandatory.
I supported firing Fauxi and Birx within months. Trump simply needed to stop bringing these ghouls out daily. He did not need to actually fire them.
If I recall correctly, Trump tried to minimize the panic the media was stirring up. They hammered him for telling people it wasn’t that bad. The media got the panic they wanted and Trump lost control, heck, half the people here were in sheer panic.
>>Trump is extremely vulnerable on this issue.
Only to those who are uninformed. DeSantis’s record on Covid is far from flawless. DeSantis made his share of mistakes.
Fani? Is that you?
Not really.
Noem was the only governor who didn't use executive "emergency authority" to shutdown their state.
Her office did offer a SD Senate bill that would have granted "emergency authority to counties, community improvement districts and municipalities in the event of a public health crisis."
So she left the decision up to the state legislature that would have left the ultimate decision up to local authorities.
It's really as I said.
I know. WTH are people thinking. lol.
Everyone went along with this crap (except the Vax split). Including us.
De Santis asked questions and decided against the shut down. Trump
should have asked questions too.
I’m from NY and I remember when it was common knowledge that Trump was a germaphobe - not Howard Hughes level but still a little freaky - and it was hard for him to even shake hands. So I think this may have influenced him, and the Dems knew it.
But one of the really bad things about Trump’s personal attacks is that he drove off people who could have and would have supported him.
You are a vapid know nothing always looking in yhe 20/20 hindsight mirror.
Everyone listened to Fauci initially. Kemp did too for awhile. If anyone went against the CDC in March, April or May, they were pilloried by the media. I guess Kemp doesn’t remember that part of the CoVID hysteria. Convenient memory, I’d say.
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