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Schumer rips Mulvaney over 'Orwellian' coronavirus remarks
The Hill ^ | 02 28 2020 | Jordain Carney

Posted on 02/28/2020 11:49:24 AM PST by yesthatjallen

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) lashed out at Mick Mulvaney on Friday after the acting White House chief of staff accused the media of reporting on the coronavirus as part of an effort to "take down the president.”

Schumer argued in a statement that the Trump administration had "learned nothing from the Chinese government’s failure to quickly and transparently combat the coronavirus."

"For Mick Mulvaney to suggest that Americans turn off their TVs and bury their heads in the sand when they’re worried about a global health pandemic is Orwellian, counterproductive, dangerous, and would be repeating China’s mistake," Schumer added.

Mulvaney, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday, accused the media of peddling a false narrative about the administration “scrambling” to contain the virus and said the press was ignoring the coronavirus until now because publications were too preoccupied with Trump’s impeachment before that.

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KEYWORDS: coronavirus; mulvaney; schumer; trump
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To: Ronniesque

I was watching. Hopefully we are at or near the bottom.


41 posted on 02/28/2020 1:11:41 PM PST by JoSixChip (I'm an American Nationalist)
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To: Ronniesque

Egads, my grammar...”ended up down”...yuck...it eventually ended down today around 357 points.


42 posted on 02/28/2020 1:12:25 PM PST by Ronniesque
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To: relee
I love how Trump took a steady approach to the coronavirus. That's what leader do.

He kindly invited the dems to do the same but in their derangement they are compelled against all reason to take the opposite approach and promote panic.

43 posted on 02/28/2020 1:15:50 PM PST by topfile
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To: Ronniesque

Hopefully the market is waking from the dem promoted knee jerk reaction of full on panic and fear.


44 posted on 02/28/2020 1:18:06 PM PST by topfile
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To: John W

I hope Trump sees this and uses it.


45 posted on 02/28/2020 1:19:47 PM PST by JoSixChip (I'm an American Nationalist)
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To: DannyTN
I actually agree with Schumer on this.

Sorry to hear that. Respectfully consider that the MSM is ginning this up to try and and hurt Trump. In fact, it was Rod Rodentstein's sister at the CDC that spooked the market with her purposeful gloomy accessment of doom for the US. Trump's approach is not to throw in the towel and give up.

46 posted on 02/28/2020 1:31:16 PM PST by topfile
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To: yesthatjallen

Citize Arrest that cretin before real harm is done.


47 posted on 02/28/2020 1:32:37 PM PST by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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To: topfile

I think what spooked the markets was the numbers of new infection in non-china countries. Last Friday, it was becoming clear that S. Korea and Japan were losing control of it.

The numbers over the weekend reinforced that and by Monday morning the market was primed to fall.

I don’t remember her entire speech, but her’s seemed balanced to me. It’s the people who say it’s inevitable so there is no point screening that worry me. And at the other end of the spectrum, the people like Mulraney who say don’t worry about it, it’s a cold, it’s no worse than the flu are just as bad.

Both lead to inaction and potentially destroy the chance we have to nearly avoid it altogether.


48 posted on 02/28/2020 1:40:54 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: yesthatjallen

The Dems sure are sensitive over this subject


49 posted on 02/28/2020 1:41:43 PM PST by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: pnz1
IHate-These-People661
50 posted on 02/28/2020 1:46:10 PM PST by timestax
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To: yesthatjallen

These idiot democrats complain that Trumps isn’t doing enough. It’s too late.

These are the people who want open borders. How do we stand on that issue now?


51 posted on 02/28/2020 1:57:03 PM PST by mom.mom (...our flag was still there.)
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To: yesthatjallen

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52 posted on 02/28/2020 5:57:28 PM PST by sauropod (David Horowitz: “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”)
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