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the real....voted in American president has spoke


Obama to mayors on coronavirus: The biggest mistake ...
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Apr 09, 2020 · Former President Barack Obama on Thursday gave some advice to a group of mayors on how to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, saying that "the biggest mistake any (of) …


this must be directed to our liar n thief


Obama to U.S. mayors: 'Speak the truth. Speak it clearly ...
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Apr 10, 2020 · Former President Barack Obama addressed a group of mayors on how to best deal with the outbreak in an online meeting on Thursday, saying the “biggest mistake any us can make in these situations is to misinform.” “Speak the truth. Speak it clearly. Speak it with compassion. Speak it with empathy for what folks are […]


Obama offers advice to mayors amid coronavirus pandemic ...
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16 hours ago · Former President Barack Obama on Thursday gave some advice to a group of mayors on how to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, saying that …
 
Adolph Shitler probably just a little worried now...….country pissed at the situation he has created...……………...Biden the nominee.....
and his worst fears have just surfaced...……………………………….....Obama is out on the campaign trail
 
Didn't they just put a southern minister in jail for refusing to stop service?


but then right wing Kansas has never been real sharp.....and republicans just make it worse...the height of stupidity

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly sues GOP lawmakers for revoking ...
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4 hours ago · Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, D, sued a Republican-controlled legislative council on Thursday after it revoked her executive order that limited church gatherings, marking the latest chapter in an...
 
as the American death toll climbs...trump could care less...election is his only concern



As pandemic deepens, Trump cycles through targets to blame
Apr 09, 2020 · The list of those Trump has blamed is lengthy, and shifting: Democratic governors for alleged mismanagement at the front lines of the crisis. The media, first for hyping the threat of the virus and then for not giving the administration credit for its response. Federal inspectors general, believed to be conspiring to make the White House look bad.

Trump Has Sabotaged America’s Coronavirus Response
As it improvises its way through a public health crisis, the United States has never been less prepared for a pandemic.



Trump Blocked Virus Testing In January To Save Election
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Mar 12, 2020 · On one level, he’s right; the virus came out of China, and that country’s leadership has a lot to answer for in how they initially screwed up the response. I think the Trump administration did have good reason to shut down China travel in late January, given the uncertainty about the new outbreak.

The coronavirus crisis calls for a real leader — and it’s ...
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Mar 21, 2020 · Though this dangerous virus is spiraling out of control today ... Trump deflects challenges to his stewardship by shifting blame — to former ... CNN’s Kaitlan Collins calls out Trump for


Letter: Trump to blame for spread of coronavirus – Red ...
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Trump stripped agencies to deal with a pandemic to the bone to pay for his wall, which cannot stop any virus. On Feb 12, 2018, Trump cut funding by about two-thirds, from about $180 million each ...

Trump Knew, He Did Nothing & Now He Lies; Hundreds of ...
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Mar 21, 2020 · On Thursday, Trump called COVID-19 the “Chinese virus” offending Chinese leadership and reiterating Sen. Tom Cotton’s view that China should be “held accountable” for the virus — anything but to admit that the reason the virus is spreading rapidly in the US is not due to China, but due to our lack of readiness, lack of early response, lack of test kits, lack of ventilators and hospital beds, lack of …


This Isn’t All Trump’s Fault (But He Isn’t Helping Either)

Even with perfect leadership, the pandemic was always going to be bad. But the president has caused the crisis to be far worse.

Here’s what we can say with some degree of confidence: The coronavirus was always going to hit the United States hard, but it is hitting the country far harder because of the president than it would have otherwise.

The first big problem was that the administration wasted time
. The Washington Post reports that intelligence agencies were warning of the threat posed by the virus as early as January—but White House staffers couldn’t get the president to “take the virus seriously.” Apart from imposing some limitations on entry into the United States in late January, it took the White House until mid-March to ramp up measures to constrain the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. But Trump was still insisting as of March 12 that the disease would magically “go away.” And while the White House sat on its hands, public-health agencies were also dawdling. Experts agree that widespread early testing would have been key to containing the virus, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FDA bungled the rollout of tests thanks to a bad early batch and enforcement of agency rules that restricted both who could be tested and the private sector’s ability to roll out new tests. Tests produced by the World Health Organization couldn’t be used either as a result of a lack of FDA approval—ironically because of rules meant to protect public safety.

Reporting on the confusion over testing by both The New York Times and ProPublica does not draw a straight line between any action by Trump and the failure of the CDC and FDA to implement speedy testing; the president didn’t tell the agencies to slow-walk the process, for example. But the testing disaster seems to have grown in large part out of the absence of leadership pushing the agencies to treat the situation like the emergency it was. Instead, bureaucracies muddled along as usual, with the FDA forsing private laboratories to clear multiple hurdles—and thus waste precious days and weeks—before their tests were approved. If Trump had moved aggressively early on to make addressing COVID-19 a priority, the CDC and FDA might have received the prodding they needed to speed the testing process.

Second, the administration helped create this leadership vacuum in the first place
in ways that go beyond the president’s own lack of concern. Trump has repeatedly blamed the Obama administration, with unclear reasoning, for his own failures in responding to the pandemic. But after the 2014 Ebola outbreak, President Barack Obama created a dedicated corner of the National Security Council for preparing and responding to pandemics. The Trump administration dismantled the unit in 2018. It also got rid of the position of homeland security adviser, the aide who would have been accountable to the president for responding to events like the arrival of a pandemic. (Trump’s last homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert, has been stolidly producing tweets and op-eds on how the U.S. should be handling the coronavirus and offering words of encouragement to the president when Trump takes action.) If the administration had kept these positions—which is to say, if Trump had heeded the wisdom of his predecessors in recognizing the dangers of pandemic disease—it might well have been in a better position to respond today.

Third, the administration has also dawdled when it comes to the supply ch
ain. Hospitals are now fatally short on ventilators, the key piece of equipment needed to keep alive COVID-19 patients in serious condition. The flood of new patients means that doctors and nurses are running out of personal protective equipment like masks and gowns, without which they will also be at risk for contracting the disease. And if health-care workers fall sick en masse, and hospitals are overrun with more patients than there are ventilators, the health-care system will face a terrible crisis that will itself lead to a spike in deaths. Trump could have helped address this danger by forsing private companies to manufacture ventilators and masks under the Defense Production Act. Indeed, the administration could have pushed to scale up production months ago. But Trump instead has hesitated for weeks on end, making noise about how he might invoke those authorities rather than actually pulling the trigger. As a result, shortages that might have been avoided or at least mitigated are becoming acute as the number of cases explodes.

Finally, the president’s messaging to the public about the virus has been an unmitigated disaster
. Even after he stopped insisting that COVID-19 was nothing to worry about, he has lurched back and forth between tepid endorsements of the slogans put forward by the public-health experts working with the White House and—with more enthusiasm—declarations of the importance of reopening the economy above all else; groundless promises that the country would be back to work by Easter; insistence on referring to the pandemic as the Chinese virus,” in a clumsy effort to deflect blame onto Beijing for his own administration’s failures; and, more recently, suggestions that the virus is primarily a problem for blue states rather than for his own supporters.

Writing off these outbursts as just “Trump being Trump” is tempting. But rhetoric like this has consequences. It can discourage government officials and aides from advocating for more aggressive action to combat the pandemic, lest they be frozen out by the president. Particularly because of the degree to which it has been amplified and repeated by the right-wing media, it has also likely caused many average Americans to take the virus less seriously—because, after all, the president isn’t taking it seriously either—and discouraged them from following social-distancing measures that could save their life and the lives of many others. In a similar vein, it has likely motivated some Republican governors who take their cues from Trump to play down the risks of the pandemic and resist lockdown measures—such as Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, who has refused to order state residents to shelter in place and even overrode local lockdown measures.

The cumulative impact of Trump’s leadership has been to allow the out-of-control spread of the virus throughout the United States. This was not inevitable. And the U.S. may well face the bulk of COVID-19 cases in a sudden wave that will overwhelm the health-care system even while supplies are in production. If the Trump administration had acted sooner, the U.S. would have had better odds of “flattening the curve”—which means not just decreasing the number of overall cases but, crucially, pushing the peak back, giving hospitals more time to prepare and manufacturers more time to supply them.

It’s impossible to say how much of a difference the Trump administration could have made by taking action early and decisively
. But the lack of testing and of protective equipment have already caused serious problems, and the weeks ahead are likely to be grim. If it’s too much to expect the United States to have performed like South Korea, it’s not too much to have expected it to perform in line with other countries—like Germany, for example, which so far seems to have kept deaths low through an aggressive testing program. Trump’s performance could mean the difference between tragic but limited suffering and a true national catastrophe.

But as this disaster plays out, the president remains focused on the important things. On Sunday, as more than 20,000 additional cases were confirmed in the United States and as 463 people died, the president tweeted, “It was reported that Harry and Meghan, who left the Kingdom, would reside permanently in Canada. Now they have left Canada for the U.S. however, the U.S. will not pay for their security protection. They must pay!” And, of course, he commented on the viewership of his daily press conferences: “Because the ‘Ratings’ of my News Conferences etc. are so high, ‘Bachelor finale, Monday Night Football type numbers’ according to the @nytimes, the Lamestream Media is going CRAZY. ‘Trump is reaching too many people, we must stop him.’ said one lunatic. See you at 5:00 P.M.!”

Those concerned about the economic fallout from the virus will no doubt take heart that while Congress is spending $2 trillion to stimulate the economy, the president is at least ensuring that the United States is not on the hook for Harry and Meghan’s security costs. And the sick and the dying will, we are confident, be gratified that at least the president’s ratings remain high.


De Blasio, NYC Officials Downplayed COVID-19 Threat After ...
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Mar 30, 2020 · De Blasio Says New Yorkers Under 50 Years Old Are Safe De Blasio followed suit three days after Barbot’s Feb. 7 comments. “We want to encourage” New Yorkers going out, the mayor said during ...
 
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