I suggest three or four to catch up.
Posted on 09/17/2023 4:05:58 PM PDT by chickenlips
I have praised the Trump administration’s accomplishments many times, but there is one huge blot on Trump’s record: his administration’s response to the covid epidemic. Via InstaPundit, Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute comments on Megyn Kelly’s interview of Trump. Kelly, to her credit, began the process of asking Trump the tough questions about covid:
We need to know why the churches, schools, and businesses were closed at the urging of the White House. We need to know why we faced travel restrictions, why government printed and spent multiple trillions that produced crushing inflation, why the hospitals were shut to elective surgeries and diagnostics, and how it came to be that the fourth branch of government – the administrative state – became the only government in the last year of his term and largely remains so today.
Tucker’s invocation of the administrative state is telling. Trump deserves credit for calling out the deep state, but the fact is that from 2016 until now, the deep/administrative state has been beating Trump like a drum. When did he actually take on the administrative state, and when did he ever win? His only defense with regard to covid (which he doesn’t candidly assert) is that he couldn’t help what the federal government–Fauci et al.–did. But that doesn’t cut it.
The government was under the leadership of Donald Trump. He greenlighted the entire thing, starting on March 12, 2020, with his travel restrictions against Europe and the UK, continuing the next day with his state of emergency that put the National Security Council in charge of a virus, and continuing the next day with his edict that “bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms and other indoor and outdoor venues where groups of people congregate should be closed.”
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Hindsight is always 20-20
I thought this was the Babylon Bee.
Trump did OK.
And the story hasn’t ended yet.
We are in the middle of a war with globalists who want to enslave the world.
Covid was just part of that.
Just wondering, is this a DeSwamptus or a Ramswampy thread?
“Hindsight is always 20-20”
Exactly. Also President Trump left it up to the governors of each state to handle the Covid as they saw fit. I think that was a good strategy as each state had its own requirements. The Democrat governors tended to be harsher on its citizens with the Covid lockdown.
What we need to know is why Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine were not distributed to everyone early on in the pandemic.
“Hindsight is always 20-20”
Yes, and this drama queen needs to reel it in a whole bunch.
Let us remember that the Trumpster was receiving advice from the CDC and the most inept physician in the history of the multiverse. Trump has his flaws, but compared to that “medical” collection of butt-kissing pharma loving pretenders, he did well, IMHO.
If he is such a great leader why isn't he pitting himself on the hotseat?
He didn’t leave it up to the governors....they had the power...Cuomo was very verbal....the best the President could do was to assist the states...like sending ships, supplies etc to the states.
Considering the alternative, I don’t care.
Meanwhile the Democrat Governor in my state was telling everyone to quit their jobs, stay at home, and let the economy burn. Trump on the other hand, urged us not to panic, for which he was roundly criticized by Democrats.
I suggest three or four to catch up.
Covid test is BS
DeSwamptus thread, in my mind. I may be wrong. Definitely a TDS thread.
I don't know about hydro but in the case of Ivermectin, it was $$$.
The patent on Ivermectin expired a long time ago so it was cheap. Big Pharma couldn't profit from it so it was quickly dismissed as useless "horse paste."
Don’t follow the Mockingbird narrative.
The State Governors invoked the power to lockdown, close-down and wear masks.
Trump recommended but never mandated.
Never.
It was the Dem-Governors with the R-Governors following along or lose FedBucks.
Trump was afraid to fire Fauci. He had the chance, but it was too close to election day. Trump was worried if firing Fauci would backfire.
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