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Trump’s Legacy: 200,000 Americans dead, and the number is growing
Trump’s Legacy: 200,000 Americans dead, and the number is growing
The president knew about Covid-19 as early as Feb. 7 of this year after speaking to China’s President Xi.
“You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump, the non-masker, told Woodward in one of 18 interviews the president gave the journalist for the new book, “Rage.” Why would Trump do that? His campaign aides reportedly were shocked to find out. The president’s ego must have gotten in the way.
Or maybe he wanted to confess that he knew more than he let on to the public in February.
“It’s also more deadly than your, you know, than even your strenuous flus, you know, people don’t realize we lose 25,000, 35,000 people a year here,” Trump said. “This is more deadly, this is five per–you know, five percent versus one percent and less than 1 percent. You know deadly stuff.”
The candor reveals in no uncertain terms that Trump knew a life and death situation was upon us. He knew exactly how deadly the situation was—five times greater than the flu. And yet to the public, Trump was hardly acting with the urgency of a world leader concerned about our health. In fact, he dismissed it as being no greater than the flu.
Finally, on March 16, Trump first introduced the task force and announced 15 days to slow the spread of the virus.
But you’ll recall on March 19, Trump was still talking fast and loose about the virus, despite knowing its deadly nature. He even joked about it, referring to it as the “Kung Flu” and the “China Virus.”
It was the double whammy of Trump’s inaction, plus a signal to his base to blame Asians for this disruption in their lives. It’s led to thousands of racist attacks against Asian Americans.
And as the downplayer-in-chief continues to do so during the pandemic, businesses fail; people lose jobs; rent goes unpaid; food shortages rise, and the death toll has reached to 200,000 Americans.
This is your leader who lies to your face about the deadly situation we’re in and continues to go maskless and hold super-spreader rallies because he’d rather sacrifice your life before his own presidency.
Time to resign?
I wanted to be the first to say “Resign.” But people I know shot back, “He’ll never resign.”
Yes, but he should.
Then I heard Woodward’s Watergate pal, Carl Bernstein, on CNN.
“We are listening to the President of the United States on tape deliberately undermining the national security of the United States, the health and well-being of the people of the United States, and he’s doing it knowingly in real time,” Bernstein said on CNN.
Bernstein said instead of letting us know what we’re facing, Trump covered up a “grave national emergency.”
“This is one of the great presidential felonies of all time, maybe the greatest,” Bernstein said. “And we have the smoking gun tape of the president committing the felony.”
Bernstein called it a “homicidal negligence.”
What else do you call a situation where slow-playing the virus has resulted in almost 7 million people infected and 200,000 people dead in the U.S.?
The onus is now on the Republican leadership. Time to think about the country and not your political self-preservation, folks. Be a real patriot and hero. Will Mr. Elaine Chao (Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell) have the guts to lead others in confronting the president, just as Republican leaders told Nixon when it was time to go?
Said Bernstein: “[They] told Nixon he had to resign, and the facts here are even graver than in Watergate.”
And that’s the state of America. We need to see Republicans with the courage stand up to the downplayer-in-chief and tell him to his face he is unfit to lead and has been derelict in his duties.
Maybe they should tell him if he really wants to make history, it would be better, cleaner, just to leave right now.
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Why is it that not one of the Republican officeholders objecting to Biden's victory have objected to their own wins on the same day on the same ballots using the same election systems??!
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9/20/2020, 3:45 pm
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Re: Trump’s Legacy: 200,000 Americans dead, and the number is growing
Tomb, it would be a lot easier to delete these articles than to edit them. Please try to keep them down to one or two paragraphs and a link.
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Re: Trump’s Legacy: 200,000 Americans dead, and the number is growing
So where is the demo-cure? Does Biden have it strapped to his forehead? Would Joe have obtained it from his Chinese buds? Y
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Re: Trump’s Legacy: 200,000 Americans dead, and the number is growing
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TheInvisibleHand wrote:
Tomb, it would be a lot easier to delete these articles than to edit them. Please try to keep them down to one or two paragraphs and a link.
Funny how I've been posting on several runboards for more than a decade, and NEVER a problem on any of them! Ever! Only here!
Then again, no other boards are as sympathetic and delusional and sycophantic towards Trump as this one! You people are awfully sensitive here!
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Why is it that not one of the Republican officeholders objecting to Biden's victory have objected to their own wins on the same day on the same ballots using the same election systems??!
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So where is the demo-cure? Does Biden have it strapped to his forehead? Would Joe have obtained it from his Chinese buds? Y
I didn't know Biden was president! I didn't know that Biden had the authority to do anything! Biden already stated several times what he would do if he had the power, and what he will do if he gets the chance, as opposed to "do-nothing-but-let-people-die" Trump. 200,000 dead and counting! You republicans are totally worthless!
Why is it Trump is not held accountable when it's HIS responsibility to do something?
You no account republicans are pathetic and don't know how to govern! Never could! Never will!
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Actually, he as President has been very good.
Our system has most Americans governed by Governors. Our Blue States have suffered more, our Red States less. Both health-wise and economically.
The worse-off State of all, New York State, had its' Governor praise President Trump very highly due to how much help he got from the President.
You've bought the Dem Party line, Tomb.
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Funny how I've been posting on several runboards for more than a decade, and NEVER a problem on any of them! Ever! Only here!
I find the argument, "I have flagrantly violated the law in ten other towns and they put up with it so you should too," utterly uncompelling. Are you saying that you will not follow this law?
We want you here. I personally feel that you are an important addition to the forum. Like our other left-leaning members, you help to maintain the balance.
You have apparently observed that we have a large number of right-leaning members. In the current political environment, this makes us particularly vulnerable. If someone wanted to shut us down for any reason, the copyright infringement would be a perfect justification.
If you won't follow the law, I will have to take drastic action. What I am thinking about doing it temporarily giving Spikosauropod moderator status so that I will not have to switch identities to edit posts, then simply cut out everything you write in your OPs except your article link. That would be the easiest solution. It is up to you.
If I do this, I will, of course, follow RFMo 14 and explain my actions in detail.
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Biden has always been a pol with his thumb up his ass. I don't see any dem who would have gotten the presidency and doing anything but lying about the death rates under their watch. The dem cities burn and loot night after night, thug after thug, and the criminals are encouraged and protected by the dems in power.
This is good news for Orange Man, because it will silently drive a multi-percentile over to vote for the president. People who would've been tempted to vote dem, will either NOT VOTE AT ALL, or will secretly vote Donald.
To which we Americans say, much thanks!
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