Biden: Trump's 'failure of planning and preparation' worsened coronavirus crisis (BARF)

The Hill ^ | 03/23/2020 | Jonathan Easley

[BradtotheBone]

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday accused President Trump of dithering in the early days of the coronavirus, saying that a “failure of planning and preparation” by the White House has worsened the health and economic crises the nation faces. Speaking from a makeshift studio at his home in Delaware, Biden made his first public remarks about the coronavirus in nearly a week, addressing concerns from some on the left that he has been ceding the spotlight to Trump.

“My point is not simply that the president was wrong,” Biden continued. “My point is that the mindset that was slow to recognize the problem in the first place, to treat it with a seriousness it deserved, is still too much a part of how the president is addressing the problem.” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar declared the coronavirus a public health emergency on Jan. 31, 10 days after the first case appeared in the U.S.

The former vice president accused the Trump administration of ignoring early warning signs about the pandemic and of downplaying the disease at critical points when the virus was primarily concentrated in China. “For too long, the warning signs were ignored,” Biden said. “For too long, the administration said the threats were under control, contained, or like the flu. The president said no one saw this coming. That’s just not accurate. Our intelligence officials were warning about the coronavirus threat in January. Just based on public information I had, I warned the threat was getting worse way back on January 27.”

[goldstategop]

A man who has no rationale for his candidacy other than to blame Trump for doing his job.

Someone please explain me why Biden is running.

[The_Media_never_lie]

My goal is to get Biden in front of a camera, this summer, in PA, to ask him a few questions to make him explode in anger.

I will follow him like a shadow.

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You can do that! Please ping me when you do it!

I actually receive his tweets. Would like the see the creepy old fool in person, before he is relegated to the dust bin (or toilet bowl) of history.

[goldstategop]

Democrats back in January had one thing on their mind. They can’t multitask since it’s beneath them.

[wiseprince]

If a sleepy Joe wakes up and makes a speech but no one hears it, did it actually happen?

[rdcbn]

CDC receives 8-9 billion bucks a year -the FDA more

Readiness for a serious major flu type viral outbreak is the single most probable event scenario CDC has to prepare for.

President Trump activated the first - second week in Jan

They have failed miserably in their primary mission -after the H1N1 debacle highlighted structural problems at CDC that were never corrected

This covid19 response is even worse than H1N1

Somebody needs to explain themselves

And no, its not Trumps Fault - it goes back way farther and way deeper

[goodnesswins]

Says the PERVERT

[Billthedrill]

What we have here is yet another case of a guy who has been in national political office for 47 years blaming a guy who’s been in for less than four for the way things are in this country. Thanks for the input, Joe. Now just go away.

[rdcbn]

Nope, this is exactly a planned for scenario.

In fact, CDC went though a simulated SARS outbreak very similar to what we are seeing less than a year ago.

CDC knew exactly what to do but could not execute and dropped the ball

How and why?

Nobody’s talking but after this is over there is going to be a coming to terms

[shotgun]

My guess would be because he is agitated at his age that he can’t sit still. This gives his family some respid care.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Trump better hang this sh*t around Obama/Biden 8 year boondoggle admin and quick.

[Liz]

Democrats are lacerating President Donald Trump b/c he referred to the Wuhan coronavirus as the "Chinese virus."
The knee-jerk "tolerant and compassionate" Dems claim it's racist to point out the fact that the virus originated in China.

She was then-VP Joe Biden's Senior Adviser, now Symone Sanders (think Stacey Abrams times two), regurgitated
that point of view on Fox News. "It's something that's offensive to Chinese Americans," Sanders claimed.

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Joe Biden and the Democrat Party’s Incestuous Relationship with China
American Thinker.com ^ | March 17, 2020 | Steve McCann / FR Posted on 3/17/2020, 12:01:42 PM by Kaslin

Desperation has set in among the Politburo in China as their deliberate mishandling and obfuscation of the Chinese Coronavirus outbreak has threatened, and in all likelihood derailed, their grandiose plans for global hegemony.

In what can only be described as one of the most ham-handed propaganda efforts in recent memory, China is now trying to deflect blame onto the United States for the Coronavirus outbreak that has been recently categorized as a global pandemic. Further, they are unabashedly claiming that any criticism of their “valiant” efforts to stem the spread of the virus or using the nomenclature of Wuhan Virus or Chinese Coronavirus is racist and xenophobic.

While their attempt to implicate the United States may appear on the surface to be absurd, the reality is that much of it will fall on fertile ground previously tilled and seeded over the past 25 years with vast amounts of money and investments.

An end-product of China’s infiltration of the American media and education establishment is the almost immediate regurgitation of China’s racist and xenophobic argument by the American mainstream media and the predominantly left-wing professional class.

Hollywood and the entertainment cabal, already awash in Chinese capital and desperate for access to the Chinese market, has refused to criticize China’s handling of the Coronavirus focusing instead on President Trump.

It is almost a certainty that when the pandemic recedes there will be nothing produced that is even remotely critical of China. (Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...

[Liz]

'Let's Be Serious': Fox's Martha MacCallum Shreds a Joe Biden Surrogate Over Politicizing the Wuhan Coronavirus
townhall.com ^ | 3/18/2020 | Beth Baumann / FR Posted on 3/19/2020, 9:21:00 AM by rktman

For whatever reason, the Democrats are harping on the fact that President Donald Trump referred to the Wuhan coronavirus as the "Chinese virus."

They claim that it's racist to point out the fact that the virus originated in China. Former Vice President Joe Biden's Senior Adviser, Symone Sanders, reiterated that point of view during an interview on Wednesday with Fox News' Martha MacCallum. "It's something that's offensive to Chinese Americans," Sanders claimed.

"What President Trump announced today — it’s a tough job but it has to be done – on some of what he said today was good but the reality is he also stood at the podium and called the coronavirus COVID-19, what I would suggest is a racial slur," Sanders explained.

According to the Biden campaign surrogate, what President Trump said is "offensive to many Americans." She said that "instead of namecalling, instead of pointing fingers, talking about poll numbers–"

"The MERS virus is M-E-R-U-S. Do you know why it's called MERS?" MacCallum asked.

"You tell me, Martha. You brought it up," Sanders said.

"It's called the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome because that’s where it originated," MacCallum explained.

"This rabbit hole of getting into this whole issue of racism, I think is so counterproductive to what we are trying to do here. I talked to an amazing scholar on China moments ago who said absolutely China, at the leadership level, has tried to obfuscate and be everything but transparent since the very beginning.

They lied and lied and lied about this situation. Why is it not okay to recognize where it originated?" (Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...

[Liz]

Hunter Biden’s Foreign Visits estimated at $200,000 Tax Dollars (for global business deals including trips to China)

SOURCE https://s2.freebeacon.com/up/2020/03/plot1_Yuichi.png

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FR POSTED 3/16/20----Hunter Biden's foreign entanglements include the notorious Ukraine deal.....and China. Hunter Biden was a board member of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, while Obama named Joe Biden his point man for the Obama White House's Ukraine policy.

Hunter served on the board of Chinese private equity company BHR Partners, organizing a meet-and-greet between Joe Biden and BHR CEO Jonathan Li on Dec. 4, 2013, according to the New Yorker.

The official govt database disclosed details about Hunter Biden's time in China. Hunter visited China on at least two other occasions, once each before and after the December 2013 meeting.

Official records show that Hunter Biden stayed in China for 1-2 weeks in June 2013 and March 2014, costing taxpayers nearly $13,000 in SS details alone.

Expenditures related to Hunter Biden's trips to the Phillippines are filed in official files under "WFP," which stands for World Food Program USA, the nonprofit group that Joe Biden bragged to South Korean students about.

HUNTER'S LUXURY HOTEL PAID BY TAXPAYERS But while Hunter Biden snapped pictures of himself as a man-of-the-people mingling with the disaster-struck children of the Philippines, that did not stop him and his Secret Service guards from checking into rooms at the St. Regis Doha in Qatar, a luxury hotel that cost taxpayers roughly $11,000.

The disclosed expenditures provide scant details about the exact purpose of Hunter Biden's trips........the categorization of all Secret Service expenditures as "miscellaneous" is a "frustrating lack of transparency." "Sometimes there are security concerns for recipients of USA money (either contracts or aid) that require keeping them anonymous to protect them from possible reprisals from those unhappy with our country," one govt official emailed. "But too often the convention is used for convenience because agencies may not have all of the information required to be reported for each foreign contractor."

The Biden family has routinely used the Secret Service for its personal benefit.
While VP, Joe Biden charged rent for the Secret Service agents at his Wilmington, Del, property, costing taxpayers $171,600 between 2011 and 2017.

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The China connections, the tax-paid SS detail.....all of it is huge red flag that prohibits a Joe Biden president.

[Liz]

This pic of the parasitic Biden family arriving in China on Air Force-two says it all.
Joe Biden grins and waves ....with his son Hunter and Hunter's daughter Finnegan.

Then-VP Biden's China trip is billed as "official business" with taxpayers' paying the tab. But was it?

Unbelievably, the granddaughter waves to the Chinese delegation----like she's some sort of diplomat.

Reporters say the three govt parasites engaged in touristy activities while in China....sucking up tax dollars 24/7.
The entitled Hunter was sucking off taxpayers and was cutting bigtime China business deals to profit himself.

READ THE SORDID STORY HERE:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/biden-s-trip-china-son-hunter-2013-comes-under-new-n1061051

[rintintin]

I think it’s interesting that the media isn’t calling out CDC for not being prepared, or for botching the testing. Fauci with a different agency, but shouldn’t he also have been working on preparing us by getting a testing regime in place to respond to epidemics, and building up ventilator stockpiles? Yet he’s treated like a god, not a bureaucrat who failed to make us prepared

[Liz]

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[rdcbn]

Fauci is NIAID not CDC. He is policy more than rubber hits road

[eyedigress]

I’ll bet the President knew what year it is and where he is.

[Theophilous Meatyard III]

Sitting on the toilet backwards just makes so much logical sense. You put the new stuff in at the top and the old stuff goes out at the bottom.

[ScottinVA]

I’ve gotten to the point, I simply despise all dems. None are worthy of anything but scorn. They are truly despicable creatures.