General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeorge Conway lays out why Trump is to blame for our botched Covid-19 response
From Kellyanne Conways husband, 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 Trumps fault.
Heres a detailed list of what we are blaming him for:
* Trump declined to use the World Health Organizations test like other nations. Back in January, over a month before the first Covid19 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 dont 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 NSCs 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 Trumps direction, the CDC stopped funding epidemic prevention activities in 39 out of 49 countries including China.
* Trump didnt 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 nations 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."
The Lincoln Project, a group led by George Conway, released a new video criticizing the president's response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10221765671790654&id=1222099697
global1
(25,270 posts)Administration by the previous Administration that would have given him a roadmap to fighting this crisis.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)and not a single one of them was to warn Americans about COVID-19.
ancianita
(36,133 posts)of men, not of laws.
America is not an idea to him, just an opportunity to control its money.
Money over humans. So no loyalty to the humans in America.
spanone
(135,873 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)the red don administration has used DPA repeatedly, for other programs...he just won't use it now re coronavirus, because libertarian assholes in his administration want to be able to let the rigged market allocate resources.
[link:https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a32006538/coronavirus-trump-defense-production-act/|]
His administration* uses it all the time, but he'd rather turn ventilators and PPE into pork-barrel projects he can dole out.
[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/us/politics/coronavirus-defense-production-act.html|]
The Defense Production Act has been invoked hundreds of thousands of times in the Trump years. But with the pandemic, the president sees it as a break the glass last resort.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)2naSalit
(86,775 posts)zackymilly
(2,375 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)dhill926
(16,355 posts)ooky
(8,929 posts)the first wave of virus infections, he was using his time to play golf instead, and have political rallies instead, directly causing the needless deaths for thousands of Americans.
Trump is Nero.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Tests they said they had weeks ago. Neither Dipshit1 or Dipshit2 could do it...just bragged about new test which had been 5 days away. (Trump had said 3 days away)
Something is certainly amiss with tests. Where's Woodward & Bernstein
jalan48
(13,883 posts)Warpy
(111,339 posts)and trying to gaslight the country daily into thinking it's all over and we all need to go back to work and start doing a lot of shopping, he's continuing to bungle this whole thing badly. We will have to get through this in spite of the Feds, not with their help.
Fortunately, governors (minus De Santis) are sensible enough to institute precautions to try to decrease the spread of this monstrosity.
A sensible president, even a stupid one, would have put the SG in charge of this, not hack politician and a businessman.
I am starting to regret the fact that I won't be here in 50 years. It would be great fun to read what the literate write about this monumentally stupid man with the fatal personality disorder.
Evolve Dammit
(16,763 posts)SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,319 posts)I think she plans to write the greatest tell-all book of all time. She probably thinks Nicole Kidman will play her in the movie.
sop
(10,244 posts)Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Thank You! Carry on your mighty works, and how are you gonna explain mommy vanishing to the kids?
K&R
Doreen
(11,686 posts)TomVilmer
(1,832 posts)erronis
(15,328 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)ones showing that theyve peaked and are well on their way to being post pandemic.
These are very interesting graphs.
TomVilmer
(1,832 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)are undercounting the cases they have. Or that at least a few of them are. I suspect the Arab countries that have kings arent counting their own populations so that only United Nations is counting. I wonder about Africa too. Theres just so little regard for the poor.
Just a thought.
dem4decades
(11,304 posts)lastlib
(23,286 posts)tRumpers cannot comprehend anything that conflicts with their view of the world--they reflexively reject it as "fake news."
somaticexperiencing
(313 posts)Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)Along with identical ones for his enablers (all RepubliCONs)! And this focuses on only one of his ever-growing list of crimes against humanity.
The sooner that epitaph is written, the better! For our nation. Our species. Indeed, for our entire planet! Jeezus and crackers, what the fuck are you waiting for, Karma! Do your thing! (OK, Im mixing belief systems here, but our survival is at stake).
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)It's waiting to become a real thing.
Meanwhile, people that ARE real are doing things.
(mostly it's bad people doing bad things, but it's not karma)
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)It's not like we're getting together for any events right now, anyway.
=============
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)I hate those assholes. Now I'll have a peaceful Easter with just my husband and son.
Cha
(297,655 posts)visitors here unless they're bringing us necessary food and supplies.
Only can go out for food and meds.. the exceptions are to exercise.. running and walking. Thank Goodness!
StaySafe, SunSeeker!
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,515 posts)she missed the memo.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)exactly is trump's fault.
* 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
trump spewed that it was "a Democratic Hoax"..
GeorgiaPeanut
(360 posts)I hope he has traction in republican circles
radius777
(3,635 posts)really go at Trump and FOX hard re their Covid gaslighting
trickyguy
(769 posts)to where we are right now. Trump has left a trail of mistakes and misdeeds that stinks.
And we, the American people will suffer greatly for this.
And I did watch the video and it is damning of the president. Bravo.
Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)There's no question that trump is inept and criminally negligent. But if we can't make people see the light, there's a good chance trump will be reelected.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Either Kellyanne is Anonymous or they have a very interesting relationship.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)'We blame him for ... allowing it to spread uninhibited.'
BIGLY!
Botany
(70,581 posts)As per the W.H.O.'s C-19 test kits Trump rejected I think it was because he wanted
to make $$$ from selling a brand that he had a stake in.
Ingersollman
(204 posts)Democratic candidates running for election should copy/paste this into their campaign ads. It is devastatingly correct.