Trump Tries To Lie Away A Pandemic
FRED WERTHEIMER’S WEEKLY NOTE | MARCH 12, 2020
“His lies, his dissembling, his con jobs, and his tweets cannot erase the reality of this dangerous disease that has spread throughout the country.”
Coronavirus was first reported in China in December 2019.
Today it dominates the United States and everything that is going on in Washington, not to mention dominating the world.
President Trump and his administration have been completely unprepared to deal with this pandemic, aided and abetted by President Trump firing the White House pandemic response team in 2018 and never replacing it.
Trump and his administration were also slow to move into action once the virus became known, aided and abetted by President Trump’s efforts to pretend it was not a problem.
On February 26, Trump said, “[W]hen you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.” Pure nonsense.
Trump kept trying to make the virus go away by saying “it is going away” and that it was “very well under control.” Not the case.
Trump has met his match in dealing with the virus.
His lies, his dissembling, his con jobs, and his tweets cannot erase the reality of this dangerous disease that has spread throughout the country.
Congress is finally moving after getting a slow start itself. House Speaker Pelosi, a real leader, is once again filling the national vacuum created by a President who lives in an alternative universe.
Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Mnuchin are trying to work out an agreement today on legislation to directly and immediately address the health crisis facing the country, while Trump sits in the White House fiddling with his Twitter account.
Trump has defined his presidency by the growth of the stock market and is now encountering the reality of the saying “live by the sword, die by the sword.”
Trump is learning that he can no more bluster a pandemic out of existence than he can talk the stock market into staying high when it decides to crash.
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