Posted on 03/12/2020 1:08:42 PM PDT by jazusamo
A day after President Trump delivered a statement from the White House about the administration's efforts to combat the coronavirus, Former Vice President Joe Biden offered a press conference of his own. He noted that his presidential campaign had cancelled election night rallies they had scheduled in Cleveland, OH, taking his own advice to "avoid public gatherings."
That's all understandable, and a good tip. But then Biden pointed fingers at Trump and accused him of "xenophobia" because he called COVID-19 a "foreign virus" in his White House address. He also said the Trump administration was guilty of several "misjudgments" since the start of the outbreak, particularly the president's new travel bans. As he announced Wednesday night, all travel to the U.S. from Europe will be banned starting Friday at midnight for the next 30 days, with the exception of the United Kingdom.
Banning travel may "slow" the spread of the virus, but "it will not stop it," Biden responded. He then suggested that Trump's travel restrictions were based on "favoritism." A few minutes later the former VP said that coronavirus had laid bare this administration's "shortcomings" and that Trump was relying on fear, not science, in his response to the health crisis.
Tim Murtaugh, Trump 2020 communications director, responded in a statement on Thursday.
“In the past, Joe Biden has shown terrible judgment and incompetence in the face of public health issues," Murtaugh said. "The Obama White House had to publicly apologize for and clean up after Biden when his irresponsible remarks caused panic during the swine flu outbreak in 2009. Just weeks ago, he was openly critical of President Trump’s early move to restrict travel from China to the United States in response to the coronavirus – a decision which medical experts agree helped impede the spread of the virus to this country. Yesterday his campaign actually raised the vile conspiracy theory that the President purposely allowed the coronavirus to spread. In times like this, America needs leadership and Biden has shown none. President Trump acted early and decisively and has put the United States on stronger footing than other nations. His every move has been aimed at keeping Americans safe, while Joe Biden has sought to capitalize politically and stoke citizens’ fears.”
The Trump campaign added a few more thoughts on Twitter.
"During the 2009 swine flu outbreak, Biden made reckless comments unsupported by science and the experts," a Trump 2020 campaign account recalled .
In other words, Biden is the last person on Earth who should be giving the Democratic rebuttal.
Everyone should realize, remember, and repeat again and again... that the Democrats have already shot a hole in their own boat. Their politicization of the Corona Virus continues to ramp up, but they cannot unsay, and unvideo that massive hole in their boat’s hull. They were against and remain against travel bans. And they are trying to get legislation passed that would end the current travel bans. Add to that, Bernie and Biden still would dismantle our border, and allow hoards of untested illegal aliens to flood into our country.
Nothing they can say or do can remove the fact that if they had been in power, the Chinese Corona Virus infection and death rates in the U.S. would have exploded in February, and they now would be lying about how the Republicans are exaggerating the severity of the pandemic, which would be much, much worse than it actually is now. Never let these idiots get away with this, bring it up consistently.
Pretty lame, even for Biden. I seriously doubt that most Americans in fear of the virus are worried about “xenophobia” at this time.
They need to get this out in paid ads, because the media sure as hell won’t report it.
Biden also promises cures (outright) for cancer, diabetes, etc.
Just like that.
As though the option has been there, but no president chose to.
Remind people: while Democrats were playing impeachment games, and Leftist news was spewing fake news about him, Trump was mitigating the COVID19 threat.
Did Biden take questions?
Kayleigh McEnany is Hawt...
Well said.
The Rats politicized this from the very beginning and are now doubling doubling down for the upcoming election.
Like other phony issues this will come back to bite them.
God is on Donald’s side. Byedone,not so much.
From what I saw no, he walked off when questions started.
“Did Biden take questions?”
No....he disappeared behind that curtain real quick.
Day late and $8 Billion short, Creepy Joe! Trump was WAY ahead of the curve on sanctions with China and bringing manufacturing back to the United States instead of using his position to pad his BANK ACCOUNT like Biden and son were doing.
No, they wheeled him off as quickly as possible. But will say, Biden was pretty lucid, would love to know what he was given, but betting it was a few sniffs of cocaine.
+1000! I second that!!
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Joe just woke up and thinks it’s February................
this is biden’s covid-19 news conference video?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLi5QqxdIU4
at the end, biden walks away as reporters shout questions.
Spot on! Also, all of a sudden Biden and his team are epidemiologists and virologist? They are pulling false statements out of thin air. I am retired from the medical field and I can tell you that I have never seen such a fast response by any government entity as I have the Trump administration. And as you said, Richard, this constant politicizing of health crisis is going to bite them.
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