Dear Trump Supporters: No One Is Blaming Mr. Trump for the Virus But…

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by George Conway

For Trump supporters, let me make one thing VERY clear!

For the record, NO ONE is blaming the President for the virus. Let me repeat. Coronavirus is not Trump’s fault.

Here’s a detailed list of what we are blaming him for:

* Trump declined to use the World Health Organization’s (WHO) test like other nations. Back in January, over a month before the first COVID-19 case, the Chinese posted a new mysterious virus and within a week, Berlin virologists had produced the first diagnostic test. By the end of February, the WHO had shipped out tests to 60 countries. Oh, but not our government. We declined the test even as a temporary bridge until the CDC could create its own test. The question is why? We don’t know but what to look for is which pharmaceutical company eventually manufactures the test and who owns the stock. Keep tuned.

* In 2018 Trump fired Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossart, whose job was to coordinate a response to global pandemics. He was not replaced.

* In 2018 Dr. Luciana Borio, the NSC director for medical and bio-defense preparedness left the job. Trump did not replace Dr. Borio.

* In 2019 the NSC’s Senior Director for Global Health Security and bio-defense, Tim Ziemer, left the position and Trump did not replace the Rear Admiral.

* Trump shut down the entire Global Health Security and Bio-defense agency. Yes, he did.

* Amid the explosive worldwide outbreak of the virus, Trump proposed a 19% cut to the budget of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention plus a 10% cut to Public Health Services and a 7% cut to Global Health Services. Those happen to be the organizations that respond to public health threats.

* In 2018, at Trump’s direction, the CDC stopped funding epidemic prevention activities in 39 out of 49 countries including China.

* Trump didn’t appoint a doctor to oversee the US response to the pandemic. He appointed Mike Pence.

* Trump has on multiple occasions sowed doubt about the severity of the virus even using the word hoax at events and rallies. He even did it at an event where the virus was being spread. Trump has put out zero useful information concerning the health risks of the virus.

* Trump pretended the virus had been contained.

* Trump left a cruise ship at sea for days, denying them proper hospital care, rather than increase his numbers in America.

Repeat: We do not blame Trump for the virus. We blame him for gutting the nation’s preparations to deal with it.

We blame him for bungling testing and allowing it to spread uninhibited.

We blame him for wasting taxpayer money on applause lines at his rallies (like The Wall).

We blame him for putting his own political life over American human life. I hope this clears things up.”

In case you missed it: Feckless Trump Casts About For Scapegoat: He May Have Found It.

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Steve
3 years ago

This written by a trump known nontrumpist
On Jan 31st trump closed our borders from China before most countries.
Mike pence yes in charge of coordination of Coronavirus with doctors
After H1n1 swine flu & Ebola outbreaks previous admin depleted most of emergency stock piles and did not replenish them
Hospitals have admin that stock supplies
State are next with there emergency stock
Supplies.
Federal govt last. Supplies should not be demanded first day
New York was warned but said they could handle it. Most blasted trump for closing borders on Jan 31st how is that late
Called him xenophobic.

Donna Mullins Cox
3 years ago

Thank you for the excellent summary that is found nowhere else. This, at a time when Trump is outrageously claiming his performance during this pandemic is 10/10. His narcissism and compulsive lying have cost hundreds of thousands of Americans their lives. What could today, those numbers be had we had an actual true and competent leader instead of this selfish man?!

Bill Formby
3 years ago

Mike, I’m going to say this, and even though there may be some people who might think differently, I will stand behind it until someone can show me concrete proof that I am wrong. Everyday when I start consuming the news of the day, whether it is on the virus or anything else, MMA is the first place I start. This is the place where one gets the unvarnished truth about things that are going on. Of course, we do not cover everything, but the things we do cover are honest, truthful, and normally backed up by facts. One of our commenters was the one that directed me to HHS website that showed just how late the administration had actually gotten around to ordering needed medical supplies. I later posted that information here. You, Glenn, David and Mark have constantly been following the virus outbreak with amazing facts that showed the lies proliferated by Trump on a daily basis. I am not saying that we were the ones breaking all of the news but MMA has been cutting through the B.S. that has thrown around. Great Job folks.

Glenn Geist
3 years ago

I don’t see it put all in one place like this and it needs to be. All we get is one or two fragments easily distracted from or dismissed by doubletalk. He’s bungled every last thing

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