Trump's team dodges virus blame while jobless benefit cuts loom

[spanone]

(CNN) - President Donald Trump's top aides are stepping up blame-game tactics against the states, saying coronavirus testing problems and rising cases are not his fault as they try to counter new polls suggesting that his leadership failings could cost him reelection.

The move comes as Republicans on Capitol Hill haggle over a measure that would replace, with smaller benefits, $600 a week in federal aid to millions of workers that has already paid out for the last time, even as out-of-control virus spikes cause some states to slow or reverse opening plans.

The new administration drive to absolve Trump of responsibility and to speed up economic activity by encouraging people to go back to work follow the President's previously misjudged gamble to goad states that are now suffering terribly from the pandemic to open before they had properly suppressed the virus. It also coincides with his demands that all schools open while ignoring concerns of parents and teachers.

With many states complaining that delays in processing coronavirus tests are making it impossible to check the spread of the disease, the administration claimed again on Sunday that its "Manhattan Project" on testing is sufficient.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/27/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-economy-unemployment-congress-testing/index.html

[beachbumbob]

1. what trump and his circle want is a complete revision to facts and the reality

unfortunately that only works with THEIR low information and ignorant supporters

[spanone]

2. The 'buck' stops nowhere within miles of trump.

[beachbumbob]

3. trump already stole that buck

[uponit7771]

6. +1, except I'm hearing media say "when the virus hit" vs "when Trump did nothing about the virus"

... and mostly democrats thinking people are going to keep the thought that Trump did nothing.

[soothsayer]

4. I think people know who's to blame

And he can’t claim he doesn’t interfere with state governance cuz.... stormtroopers.

And he’s still not stepping up, so...

[lark]

5. Nero fiddles while America burns from a fire he's let burn out of control - on purpose.

He wants the utmost chaos and disaster by 11.3/20 and he's damn determined to have it. He's trying to keep the fire burning brighter with his Stormtrumpers wanton violence and by forcing children into unsafe schools so they can kill their parents & grandparents & even some of them will die too. No price is too high to pay for this criminal traitor in his efforts to destroy America so he doesn't go to jail.

[Laelth]

7. Denial.

It’s not just a river in Egypt.



-Laelth