He knowingly lied about the severity of the virus to avoid panicking people he says.

[onecaliberal]

Concurrently, he encouraged people to mix and spread the virus, saying no big deal. He demanded business and school open, again knowing it was bad.
Trump lied for one reason, the reason is he knew it was bad for HIM. This is criminal negligence. That steaming pile of garbage has one job. He is not capable. He is unfit. He should be removed today.

[Laelth]

1. If this were Japan, he would have resigned already.

If he had any honor, he would have already committed seppuku.

-Laelth

[RockRaven]

2. Every day he sends out tweets trying to incite panic about urban/suburban areas, antifa, BLM

That panic excuse doesn't hold water. Everything else he does is an attempt to create panic and crises. All day. Every day.

What are the odds that coronavirus is the one and only thing in the whole world which triggers in him a concern about panic?

[Blue_true]

11. A tiny self-serving microbe is going to defeat a grotesque self-serving monster. nt

[Skittles]

3. LOLOL

while trying to make us believe the cities and suburbs are "under attack"

WHAT A FUCKING JOKE HE IS

[onecaliberal]

4. A very deadly joke.

[Skittles]

5. honestly

Trump behaved as if PUTIN was giving him orders to inflict AS MUCH DAMAGE AS POSSIBLE on America. IMAGINE THAT.

[onecaliberal]

7. I absolutely believe that and agree.

So many people have said that. Including several people serving in our intelligence agencies. Putin is in charge of America and has been the entire time. Trump does what is best for russia, not America.

[Blue_true]

6. He is lying now, like he always does.

All he saw was the virus being a problem for him getting re-elected. The interesting thing is that if he had somehow brought himself to harness the full power of the federal government and use science to attack the virus and keep the country running, he most likely would have been assured of re-election. But many of us knew that Trump couldn’t do what was right because a reward for him was not obvious in those actions. My sense is that Trump is in a downward spiral that he has no ability to get himself out of, he will keep compounding his mistakes and that tendency will absolutely seal a big electoral defeat for him.

[onecaliberal]

9. I hope you're right and I hope the bad news about trump just keeps coming.

The thing about the Woodward tapes is trump can’t wiggle out of it. It is him talking. His own words.

[Blue_true]

16. I got trapped earlier today in a place that had on Fox News and I was listening.

The people at Fox are trying to spin this away. They are playing selective parts of Woodward’s tapes over and over. So Joe’s team must stay on the offensive and pin Trump to his own words. Trump downplayed and ridiculed the virus and efforts to contain it because he saw the virus as a threat to his re-election - there simply was NOTHING else there. Instead of rallying Americans to a common front, he used virus abatement efforts to divide people and increase the death toll.

[onecaliberal]

18. Yeah. There is no spinning this.

Idgaf what they’re saying. Trump deliberately killed 200,000 Americans.

[Blue_true]

20. We are on pace to add 45,000-90,000 dead Americans to that number by Election Day.

The virus is starting to ramp back up just as we go into cooler weather and people will be congregating inside buildings more often.

Trump just doesn’t have the ethical or intellectual fiber to lead. That by now should be painfully obvious to anyone who is not an absolute moron and/or vile hater.

[onecaliberal]

23. My county has been steady high all summer.

[JI7]

8. Exactly, if it was about calming people one would say something like we have the best experts

if we just follow then we can get through this.

Not all the shit he has said and done.

[Budi]

10. "PEOPLE STILL PANICKED. WTF did he think that ridiculous run on toilet paper, Lysol and Bleach was?

Link to tweet

[onecaliberal]

13. Trump also took zero actions to stop the virus.

They simply are not capable. It beyond professions malpractice. It’s criminal negligence. He knew but did not act to save people. In fact the did just the opposite.

[Budi]

15. 🤬

[smb]

12. Pumpkinhead Sez...

1. OMG TEH CARAVAN IS COMING FOR U!!!

2. OMG ISIS IS COMING FOR U!!!!

3. OMG SCARY BLACK PEOPLE ARE COMING FOR U!!!!!

4. I wanted to avoid panicking people.

[onecaliberal]

14. We're going to take their guns too, don't forget that golden oldie.

[Blue_true]

21. Excellent observations. That fool is all about panicking people. nt

[katmondoo]

17. I am beginning to think Trump wanted herd immunity from the very beginning of the pandemic.

That would explain why he never told the people of the dangers of the virus. It would be easier to let the virus just to run its course since he really didn't want to do anything as there was no gain for him. He wanted to use the virus to control people not help them.

[onecaliberal]

19. Except it destroyed everything. Again too stupid to think through consequences.

Thinking he could order people to sacrifice themselves and their families. The stupid has burned this country to the ground.

[Tribetime]

22. Yes the stock market so his pals could sell off

Before it crashed