Why Did Biden Oppose Trump's China Travel Restrictions In January?

[ReubenSherr]

The day Trump restricted travel to China in order to buy the U. S. months of necessary time, on January 30, Biden made these comments, speaking to a crowd in Iowa:

"This is no time for Donald Trump's record of hysteria xenophobia, hysterical xenophobia, and fear-mongering to lead the way instead of science."

Notice that Joe even used the phrase "fear-mongering," in reference to Trump cutting off travel to China.

Why did Joe INITIALLY oppose the travel restrictions to China?

Flashback: Joe Biden Calls Trump’s China Travel Restrictions ‘Hysterical Xenophobia’ :: Grabien - The Multimedia Marketplace

 

[Aunt Antifa]

The day Trump restricted travel to China in order to buy the U. S. months of necessary time, on January 30, Biden made these comments, speaking to a crowd in Iowa:

"This is no time for Donald Trump's record of hysteria xenophobia, hysterical xenophobia, and fear-mongering to lead the way instead of science."

Notice that Joe even used the phrase "fear-mongering," in reference to Trump cutting off travel to China.

Why did Joe INITIALLY oppose the travel restrictions to China?

Flashback: Joe Biden Calls Trump’s China Travel Restrictions ‘Hysterical Xenophobia’ :: Grabien - The Multimedia Marketplace

Biden never opposed travel restrictions...?

 

[ReubenSherr]

Biden never opposed travel restrictions...?

Initially, he called Trump's travel restrictions xenophobic.

And if he had been successful in deterring Trump from imposing these restrictions, he might have cost thousands of lives.

He also accused Trump of "fear mongering."

And we are supposed to believe Joe when he tells us he would have immediately locked down the country?

 

[ClaraD]

none of those apply....impacting travel wasn't going to matter, what we personally did on a one on one basis was what was going to matter. You know why? You cannot keep the Americans that were in those countries from coming back to the US, even if there is a deadly virus outbreak.

 

[Aunt Antifa]

ANd Trump restricted travel to buy us time? He travel ban did no such thing. It wasn’t fully implemented.

and there are 200k dead Americans. Which could have been avoided if Trump had told us what he told Bob Woodward back in March.

Why didn’t Trump tell us what he told Bob Woodward back in March? Why did he only partially ban travel from China knowing the virus was 5x deadlier than the flu and airborn? Why didn’t he quarantine the passengers coming in knowing it was airborn?

 

[ClaraD]

Initially, he called Trump's travel restrictions xenophobic.

And if he had been successful in deterring Trump from imposing these restrictions, he might have cost thousands of lives.

He also accused Trump of "fear mongering."

And we are supposed to believe Joe when he tells us he would have immediately locked down the country?

it was xenophobic, because he was placing restrictions on much of Asia and Latin America but not Europe, where there was a major outbreak.

 

[Lucky 1]

Biden never opposed travel restrictions...?

Boy did he ever!!! Senile old man............

 

[ReubenSherr]

and there are 200k dead Americans. Which could have been avoided if Trump had told us what he told Bob Woodward back in March.

Why didn’t Trump tell us what he told Bob Woodward back in March? Why did he only partially ban travel from China knowing the virus was 5x deadlier than the flu and airborn? Why didn’t he quarantine the passengers coming in knowing it was airborn?

This isn't the topic of the thread.

How many additional lives would have been lost if Biden had been successful in deterring the travel ban?

And given that Joe accused Trump of fear mongering, how are we supposed to believe his claim that he would have immediately locked down the country?

 

[lemmiwinx]

Biden purposely wanted COVID to come to the U. S. in order to harm Trump politically. Plus his son Hunter Biden was holding millions in stock in Chinese pharmaceutical companies.

 

[Aunt Antifa]

Initially, he called Trump's travel restrictions xenophobic.

And if he had been successful in deterring Trump from imposing these restrictions, he might have cost thousands of lives.

He also accused Trump of "fear mongering."

And we are supposed to believe Joe when he tells us he would have immediately locked down the country?

He was right on all points. But he didn’t oppose the travel ban. No one did. Trump did what he always does - half assed the whole thing because he just wanted to say the words “china” and “ban.’ He didn’t look at Europe until it was too late and he didn’t even do anything about the folks they were letting in from China after his non-ban ban.

No idea why you guys are still trying to take victory laps over the China non-ban. It’s your MIssion Accomplished.

 

[ReubenSherr]

it was xenophobic, because he was placing restrictions on much of Asia and Latin America but not Europe, where there was a major outbreak.

And because Biden considered it "xenophobic," the implication is that he would not have implemented the travel ban.

 

[Aunt Antifa]

Biden purposely wanted COVID to come to the U. S. in order to harm Trump politically. Plus his son Hunter Biden was holding millions in stock in Chinese pharmaceutical companies.

Obama/Biden admin left a pandemic team and plan in place. Trump/Pence threw it away.

One group handled their pandemics. The other group is still telling us a travel ban that didn’t work is the key reason millions aren’t dead.

 

[Aunt Antifa]

And because Biden considered it "xenophobic," the implication is that he would not have implemented the travel ban.

What if Trump knew the virus was already in Europe and had gotten into our country?

 

[humbolt]

it was xenophobic, because he was placing restrictions on much of Asia and Latin America but not Europe, where there was a major outbreak.

He imposed travel restrictions on Europe as well. The only phobic people around here are the political left folks, and they're hydrophobic.

 

[ALiberalModerate]

Biden purposely wanted COVID to come to the U. S. in order to harm Trump politically. Plus his son Hunter Biden was holding millions in stock in Chinese pharmaceutical companies.

Another example of how we really ****ed up in this country with deinstitutionalization.

 

[humbolt]

it was xenophobic, because he was placing restrictions on much of Asia and Latin America but not Europe, where there was a major outbreak.

Well, you're hydrophobic.

 

[Integrityrespec]

Biden never opposed travel restrictions...?

What do you believe is the purpose of his statements? So you think he was endorsing the plan by calling it xenophobic and accusing him of fear mongering? That's an amazingly biased analysis of Biden's comments.

 

[Aunt Antifa]

This isn't the topic of the thread.

How many additional lives would have been lost if Biden had been successful in deterring the travel ban?

And given that Joe accused Trump of fear mongering, how are we supposed to believe his claim that he would have immediately locked down the country?

Because you and Trump keep conflating decisive action with “fear mongering” and fear mongering with decisive action.

We did lock down. We had to. And we were supposed to have testing in place. And tracing. And PPE. None of that happened.

And now we know that Trump told a journalist back in early February that he knew the virus was 5x deadlier than the flu, airborn, and it affects young and old.

Just imagine what the country could have done if all of us had known that virus was 5x deadlier than the flu, airborn. I wonder if Herman Cain would have chosen to go to that rally. I wonder if the bikers from Sturgis would have gone in those numbers if their president had told them the truth.

ON Biden: Why do I have to compare the made up failures of his non-existent admin that you’re claiming would have happened against the real world malfeasance of Trump’s team?

 

[Rawley]

Biden never opposed travel restrictions...?

OK. Calling the imposition of travel restrictions "hysterical xenophobia, and fear-mongering" isn't opposing them?

 

[Integrityrespec]

none of those apply....impacting travel wasn't going to matter, what we personally did on a one on one basis was what was going to matter. You know why? You cannot keep the Americans that were in those countries from coming back to the US, even if there is a deadly virus outbreak.

Another example of lack of reasoned analysis. Letting in more infected travelers would have raised the level of the spread the virus and in fact we did quarantine those returning to the U.S. if they showed symptoms of the virus.
I try to believe that most folks look at things reasonably despite their political following, but it seems some don't or can't.

 

[Aunt Antifa]

What do you believe is the purpose of his statements? So you think he was endorsing the plan by calling it xenophobic and accusing him of fear mongering? That's an amazingly biased analysis of Biden's comments.

Biden was 100% right, and validated every day since. Trump had *no* plan outside of blaming China. And then he proceeded to call it KUNG FLU.

And the that was the extent of the Trump admin participation tour through international pandemic management.

Sleepy Slow Joe Hiden got it right. Looks like even someone with dementia understands **** your boy doesn’t.

 

[Aunt Antifa]

OK. Calling the imposition of travel restrictions "hysterical xenophobia, and fear-mongering" isn't opposing them?

He did no such thing.

 

[Rawley]

He did no such thing.

You funny Auntie.

 

[ReubenSherr]

He did no such thing.

Joe made these statements a day after Trump imposed travel restrictions to and from China.

More importantly, Joe is trying to make people believe that he would have immediately locked down the entire nation.

“Fear mongering” is not a term used by someone who is contemplating mandating a nationwide lockdown.

 

[Rawley]

Joe made these statements a day after Trump imposed travel restrictions to and from China.

More importantly, Joe is trying to make people believe that he would have immediately locked down the entire nation.

“Fear mongering” is not a term used by someone who is contemplating mandating a nationwide lockdown.

Poor Biden is floundering something awful. It's rather sad watching his campaign stops - sitting around in a circle talking to four other old farts.