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.
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Kemp was right Trump was wrong.
Kemp was right before DeSantis.
Trump was all in on operation warp speed... it was a massive failure and people died plain and simple and he thought the vax was good and folks should take it..if they want to.
Just saying..prove me wrong.
From my profile page:
We're all getting a first-hand look at how a society operates when it's run by people who are always catering to the mindless whims of suburban Karens. Our leaders are invariably going to end up making decisions that are idiotic and irrational ... and they're going to feel completely unaccountable when they fail.
and you may also remember that the President followed the requirements of the Constitution stating matters not set out in the document are to be handled by the individual states. And each state did have their individual rules and regulations regarding Covid and there were considerable differences, state to state.
That's just wrong.
Yes convenient memories. The main thing people were worried about was overwhelming the hospitals. The media put up the half screen death counters were every death was counted as a Covid death. Every state opened or remained closed based on their people. I stopped wearing a mask by April and only put it on at the grocery store.
You’re as bad as the Cruz fans in 2016. How’d that work out for them? 🤣
Trump didn’t do it because he was told (I am sure) in no uncertain terms that the President of the United States has no authority to do any such thing.
Noem didn’t do it because she is the governor of a state where most people still value their freedom.
These duplicitous jerks like Kemp and DeSantis who are running around today pretending they were courageous protectors of freedom and liberty in 2020 are full of sh!t.
You need to change your handle here. 🤣
Then who are you to determine that Trump's actions were wrong from the start? You worked in the medical system, yet you succumbed to the line handed out by the government bureaucracy. I never worked in the medical system, but knew enough to question early-on, the efficiency of the shots when they didn't even have an accurate test to detect Covid at the time the shots were being dispensed. And, I also believed and still do, that once they started dispensing the shots, that they were tied to the variants that began showing up, and are still showing up with each new, and "improved" Covid shot.
I was 73 when Covid showed up here, yet I knew my body well enough that I knew I didn't need some shot that the government was pushing me to get. Anybody that trusts what the government says is gullible at best. I tested positive for Covid twice in a six-month period prior to having medical procedures done last year. I had no symptoms whatsoever. The day before I tested positive for the second time, I'd gone to the dentist the day before, for a cleaning. They took my temperature before letting me into the building, and it was normal. The next day I gave myself a rapid-test (nasal swab) at home, and it was negative. That afternoon they sent me to a lab to have them do a test on me, and it came back positive. So tell me that the tests they have out there today are accurate. I don't think they are.
Another problem I had was that early-on, they weren't requiring that people that were vaccinated to be tested before medical procedures. By that time, they already knew that vaccinated people could still get the shots. When I confronted the medical person with that issue, her response was "I don't make the rules." That's as bad as Nazi war criminals saying they "were just following orders." Stupid people enjoy being sheep. I will never be a sheep. I learned a long time ago to question everything, and that the only stupid question, is the one you don't ask. There are way too many people in this country that have no common sense, and depend on others for the answers. Thank God I was born in a time when people still had to think for themselves.
Yes, I agree he could’ve done better on his response to that crap. But, as you said, the Democrats blindsided him with that as they did the rest of us. Trump wasn’t let in on it.
Trump’s support for the lockdowns did not last long at all. He started trying to get the governors to relax them.
It is odd how people forget the frothing hostility that Trump caught from all sides. Does anyone remember the press conferences Trump had? The reporters were seething with hatred and accusations against what Trump wanted to do — to make medicine available instead of vaccines. He was ridiculed.
Remember the taunting over the ventilators?
If Trump had done what DeSantis and others so boldly proclaim what they would have done, with their 20/20 hindsight, Trump would have been declared owner of every single death from the virus. He would have been impeached by the Republicans.
And, people forget that many more people died under the Biden administration that Trump’s.
Georgia Gov. Kemp announces vaccine incentive for state workers
Kemp was still pushing the vaxx in Aug of 2021. That's 6 months after Trump left office.
"Vaccination remains our most effective tool against COVID-19," Gov. Kemp said at Monday's press conference. Kemp announced plans for an incentive for state employees to get the vaccine. “Approximately 325,000 members are currently eligible for the incentive, which would equate to a $150 Visa gift card or $480 in credits that can be used for various health care expenses,” Kemp said. “This also includes state health plan members who have already been vaccinated.” Plans for the incentive come as Georgia's COVID numbers reach the highest point since January, if not higher, said Dr. Kathleen Toomey, due to the Delta surge.
We knew nothing about this “novel” virus that had ppl dropping dead in the streets in China and ERs overflowing with dead ppl in Italy. To act like you knew “the truth” then is disingenuous. You had an opinion, I’m sure, but the modeling was showing 5 million dead Americans by the end of summer. Things didn’t start to add up until much later.
And, he's lying about Trump. Trump 1) let the states decided Covid policies and 2) encouraged an end lockdowns as quickly as possible.
These kind of lies aren't work and they sure as hell aren't working here.
Trump will be the nominee. Get on the Trump Train or get on the tracks so it can run you over.
The worst thing he did in my mind was eliminate the risk by giving everyone immunity via the emergency orders. upset the natural balance.
“Kemp was right. Trump was wrong. Big time.”
You sound just like a Monday morning quarterback.
Proof of what lying POS he is:
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/23/trump-coronavirus-lockdown-skepticism-143800
03/23/2020
President Donald Trump on Monday said he planned to pull the U.S. economy out of its coronavirus-induced slumber in a matter of weeks, and refused to commit to following the advice of his handpicked health experts — many of whom have warned that it will be a matter of months before it will be safe to reopen the country again — when reassessing guidelines for social isolation.
“Our country wasn’t built to be shut down. This is not a country that was built for this,” Trump insisted to reporters during a White House press briefing with his coronavirus task force on Monday evening, predicting that “America will again and soon be open for business. Very soon. A lot sooner than three or four months that somebody was suggesting.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/03/trump-says-nationwide-lockdown-would-ultimately-inflict-more-harm-than-it-would-prevent.html
August, 2020:
President Donald Trump insisted Monday that shutting down the United States in an attempt to curb the coronavirus would cause more harm than good.
Kemp didn’t mandate it and was the first state to open. Reality.
"The vaccine is one of the greatest achievements of mankind." Trump
"I came up with a vaccine, with three vaccines all are very, very good.” Trump
"I was able to get something approved that, you know, that has proven to have saved a lot of lives. Some people say that I saved 100 million lives worldwide." Trump
Trump didn't mandate anything.
Kemp's a POS.
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