In debate over keeping Americans safe, it’s now Trump vs. Trump

[Rogue Valley]

In debate over keeping Americans safe, it’s now Trump vs. Trump | ABC News

9/10/20
If President Donald Trump wanted a debate about keeping the American people safe, he's got it now. That debate, though, is with himself -- what he said about COVID-19 back when it might have been contained early this year, as well as what he's doing about it now when it actually still isn't. Bob Woodward's conversations with Trump -- and there are plenty more recordings not yet released -- are damaging to the credibility of a president who had already been in danger of being tuned out by a large swath of voters. It settles the question of whether he was deliberately downplaying the threat posed by the coronavirus with his own plain words: "I wanted to always play it down," he told Woodward back in March. But recreating the timeline of contradictory and downright false presidential statements doesn't even tell the complete story now. The crisis that is defining his presidency is still unfolding -- taking lives and impacting livelihoods in tangible, non-spinnable ways. Six months into the pandemic, the president is still acting as if the main threat of COVID-19 is over. He is railing against states that aren't reopening, pressing a politically advantageous timeline for a vaccine and continuing to hold campaign events that look and feel as if his own administration's guidelines don't matter. Trump's explanations about why he was saying one thing privately and another publicly center on his view of himself as cheerleader-in-chief. "Leadership is all about confidence," he said Wednesday, when asked about the Woodward book. He didn't mention truthfulness.

While Trump was well aware of how dangerous and deadly the novel coronavirus is, he was telling the American people this.....

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and Tweeting this.....

 

[Lord Tammerlain]

But China lied, the WHO lied?

Yet Trump knew it was potentially very deadly in early Feb

Trump lies and people who don’t trust him fell for his lies

 

[Mr Person]

Trumpists proudly defend a vile pig bastard who knowingly let Americans die because he calculated that, seeing as COVID was ravaging blue states, he could let liberals die and blame Democrat governors for it.




"The ugliness is the point" does not even begin to cover it at this point.