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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBiden calls out Trump for testing his staff while telling Americans testing isn't necessary
Former vice president Joe Biden launched a fresh line of attack against President Trump on Monday, criticizing the president for providing coronavirus tests to his staff while telling Americans that testing isnt important.
If Trump and his team understand how critical testing is to their safety and they seem to, given their own behavior why are they insisting that its unnecessary for the American people? Biden wrote in an op-ed published in The Washington Post.
Biden returned to the theme later in the piece, writing, Instead of once again seeking to divide us, Trump should be working to get Americans the same necessary protections he has gotten for himself.
Last week, Trump said that testing is not necessary to safely end virus-related restrictions to life and work in the country, dismissing the advice of health experts, scientists and even some Republican allies.
He has also focused on the optics, noting that more testing would probably lead to increases in the official count of infected Americans. In a way, by doing all of this testing we make ourselves look bad, Trump said last week.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-calls-out-trump-for-testing-his-staff-while-telling-americans-testing-isnt-necessary/2020/05/11/34bb96d2-9390-11ea-9f5e-56d8239bf9ad_story.html
malaise
(268,922 posts)Expose the murderous hypocrite
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)safety, just the people who work in the meat factories.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)The Trump Regime certainly wants to continue and have a complete victory over democracy. No holding back, no matter how many plebs and AstroTurf freedumb fighters have to perish for the cause. Stochastic terrorism and stochastic genocide seem to be a definite policy now and allows more of that, "I didn't do it. I take no responsibility for it. That's not the government."
An emergency like this is a boon to the Regime, (historically, they always are and globally, the grabs are in progress) and that's the reason why we have seen the so-called "failures". When you botch something intentionally, that's not a failure, that's a plan. A weak, shocked and fearful nation is very prone to that "down on your knees" or die effect. Emergencies and powers go together. Trump has no doubt peered into the entire set of emergency powers that are sealed and we don't get to see.
While we know it is intended to be so for his lifetime, they haven't mentioned how many hundreds of years they have planned for this one, yet.