THE PARTISAN CORONAVIRUS BLAME GAME escalated over the weekend with the release of a blistering attack ad and a number of media appearances in which lawmakers sought to color the public’s perception of how we arrived at 40,000 coronavirus fatalities and who should be held responsible at the polls in November.
The Biden campaign released an attack ad on Saturday that will run online in the battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, North Carolina and Florida. “When Trump rolled over for the Chinese, he took their word for it. Trump praised the Chinese 15 times in January and February as the coronavirus spread across the world,” the narrator says as images of Trump tweets and quotes appear on screen. The ad is the first major salvo in Biden’s efforts to cast the Trump campaign as woefully unprepared to meet the moment. For the next six months we can expect Biden to talk of little else.
On January 31, the day the White House announced that it would bar foreign nationals who had visited China in the previous two weeks from entering the U.S., Biden accused Trump of responding to the crisis with “hysterical xenophobia.” The Biden campaign later came out in favor of the travel restriction and now says the xenophobia remark was not made in reference to that specific decision.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also entered the fray on Sunday, slamming the administration’s efforts during an appearance on Fox News Sundays with Chris Wallace. “The president gets an F, a failure, on the testing,” Pelosi said. Wallace responded by charging Pelosi with hypocrisy, citing her decision to take a walking tour of San Francisco’s Chinatown in late February, three weeks after Trump announced the China travel restrictions. Following the tour, Pelosi held a press conference to assure her cons uents that “everything is fine” and urged them to “come to Chinatown.”
“If the president underplayed the threat in the early days, Speaker Pelosi, didn’t you as well?” Wallace asked.
“No!” Pelosi replied. “What we were trying to do is end the discrimination, the stigma that was going out against the Asian-American community and in fact, if you will look, the record will show that our Chinatown has been a model of containing and preventing the virus, and I’m confident in our folks there and thought it was necessary to offset some of the things that the president and others were saying about Asian-Americans and making them a target. A target of violence across the country.”
Representative Dan Crenshaw offered a word in defense of the administration during a Friday appearance on Real Time With Bill Maher. The Texas Republican pushed back on Maher’s claim that the administration was slow to respond to the outbreak relative to other countries, and argued that many of the same people who criticized Trump’s China travel ban in February are now criticizing him for not being more restrictive.
“He lies about that,” Maher said, pointing out that some 40,000 travelers entered the country from China after the restrictions were put in place — the same line of attack featured in Biden’s campaign ad. “He said he stopped people coming in from China and he did not.”
“Look, let me address that,” Crenshaw said. “These were U.S. citizens and passport holders and green card holders being repatriated — U.S. citizens. So, you have to make the argument then that we shouldn’t allow them in. It sounds to me like you’re fully agreeing with President Trump on this when everybody else disagreed with him. And if you’re saying that you wish that travel restriction had been more extreme, okay fine, you apparently had the foresight when nobody else did.”
With the exception of Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and a handful of China hawks in the House, everyone on Capitol Hill and in the administration was slow to realize the scale of the threat facing America and the world. This universal lack of preparedness was in no small part due to the fact that our elected leaders were taking their cues from a World Health Organization that was parroting the Beijing party line. Considering the monumental level of spin Americans are about to be subjected to, it’s worth remembering who said what and when.
"This universal lack of preparedness was in no small part due to the fact that our elected leaders were taking their cues from a World Health Organization "
there were Americans working at WHO in Geneva who
sent pandemic reports to the WH and/or Exec agencies, in December '19.
No action by Trash and his toadies.
Trash rejected 60K test kits from WHO, assuming the impeccable, all-powerful, perfect "market" would solve the pandemic crisis.
Good question. After the wargaming session in which the (very bored) Trump administration people took place, why did they not ask for it?
They had three years.
More Boutons fake news.
Are their bootstraps not long enough to get through staying at home? Were they not fiscally conservative enough to save for a rainy day?
On Feb 5th
Congress tried at a meeting with the WH -
WH said - NO - WE ARE GOOD!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mark...ry/ar-BB11OvE1
LMAO February 5th? Who were they gonna buy it from then? China was sucking up all their production.
I've given you the truth but you can't handle it. Instead you want an echo chamber confirmation style response. You won't get it from me. Suck it up and walk it off.
It's 70% Democrat responsibility, 30% Republican responsibility. Them's the breaks.
Actually on Feb 5 US was still selling PPE supplies to China.
more fake news quoting that dude in Florida..
The 3M masks were manufactured in China and China basically nationalized the plant for their own use.
It’s about 100% executive branch fault. Single by far greatest failure that has led to this show is lack of testing which could have arrested spread early on. Testing was the responsibility of the CDC. CDC is under the guidance of Trash’s executive branch. Rather than seeing where the DOW is every day, watching the news every day to line up his twitter feed and figuring out when his next golf outing would be Trash should have paid attention to, been monitoring the real emerging crisis. Plenty of experts were pointing out the potential disaster. When the testing sites were reporting failures in testing, if he wasn’t asleep at the wheel and knew how critical testing was, he would have made the appropriate and necessary adjustments to regulations to unleash the commercial labs. Meanwhile he would have been aware of of what supplies would be necessary to enable testing by the commercial labs which ultimately would have been necessary one way or the other and begun to procure them. We need a better, more intelligent, more engaged President. The country need and deserves it.
cowboy stirring the dosage for your consumption
first you blame congress- in your never-ending quest to fellate trump
then you are given proof congress tried and is not to blame
so you move goalposts
to continue your disgusting trump fellating
Cowboy can’t last 6 weeks without a handout, but you can trust him lol
Doesn't sound very fiscally conservative. Where was the rainy day fund? Shouldn't have been living beyond your means if you can't last six weeks.
" Single by far greatest failure that has led to this show is lack of testing"
Predating testing what the fatal-for-1000s-of-Americans was Trash's ignorinn in DECEMBER the reports from the American contingent working with WHO in Geneva.
Trash LIED, Trash's pandemic disables and kills 10Ks of Americans.
The Trash's 10/10 massacre continues.
Might want to read your own article
The materials sent to China, Pompeo said, were donated by Samaritan’s Purse, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and other private organizations. Boeing and Intermountain Healthcare were also involved, according to a Feb. 15 State Department press release.
You should educate yourself and quit being stupid.. Congress appropriates money, not the President. that is an undeniable fact. It has nothing to do with "defending" Trump.
This is gonna last a lot longer than 8 weeks.
the names on the sign on the left
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Your next valuable take will be your first one.
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