Why Trump's "Don't blame me, blame China!" excuse doesn't work
Imagine if China, instead of transmitting the coronavirus to the United States (unintentionally, I believe. I mean, it's a disease. Diseases spread. It's sort of their thing.), what if China had sent 2 million actual soldiers to attack the US, launching a land and air attack in California? In the first wave of the attack, 130,000 Americans are killed.
What if, in the face of an actual attack, Trump did absolutely nothing to prepare for it and made no attempt to warn the American people (even though he had been briefed by US intelligence several months prior about the possibility of a Chinese invasion)?
And what if Trump had then called the invasion a hoax, denied California the equipment it needed to counter the attack, and told every other state that it was up to each state to defend itself from the massive Chinese army overrunning the country? And then, what if, when people criticized him for his abject failure in responding to the attack, Trump declared, "Don't blame me! Blame China!" to divert attention from his own incompetence.
In the situation of an actual Chinese invasion, yes, indeed, it's China's fault. Of course it's their fault if they purposefully attacked us! But what a ludicrous waste of time to point fingers and snivel, "They started it!" All that matters now is how the commander in chief of the United States military responds to the attack.
So even if China had, as conspiracy theorists would have you believe, unleashed the coronavirus on the world on purpose, so the hell what? What was Trump's response? And what is he doing now?
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