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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums***WARNING***: "[Trump warning us in Feb] It would not have changed anything..." looks like a RWTP !
Looks like "it wouldn't have changed anything" if we didn't know what Trump knew is an early float of a rwtp that's false on its face but they're trying to float it on as many politico forums as possible and flood social media with it.
Don't let them get away with this, people would've made their own decisions if they knew what Trump knew in Feb
will update
still_one
(92,108 posts)no sense
uponit7771
(90,323 posts)... the hell happened anyway !!!
still_one
(92,108 posts)that trump is responsible for killin thousands of Americans
uponit7771
(90,323 posts)still_one
(92,108 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,656 posts)which apparently some of us are guilty of furthering.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)I should have seen it... but it didn't hit me at the time.
still_one
(92,108 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Leith
(7,808 posts)My guess was reich wing toilet paper.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)work unless they admit that trump is that incompetent.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,656 posts)The fact that the GOPers and Fox and their fellow travelers are doing exactly what they would have done if the Woodward tapes had come out in February proves the point. It's not a right-wing talking point - quite the opposite - to state that Trump and his minions would have done exactly what they're doing now, which is obfuscating and excusing, and trying to discredit Woodward. I maintain that nothing would have changed, and that is NOT a right-wing talking point.
wryter2000
(46,025 posts)I made personal decisions based on what the experts were saying.
Plus, the F Woodward crowd might consider that the timing of the book has maximum impact for the election.
uponit7771
(90,323 posts)... really hard with book information.
JHB
(37,157 posts)Link to tweet
@BruceBartlett
I don't actually think it would have made a lick of difference if Woodward had released his tapes in March. It would simply have allowed Trump's supporters to say that's it's old news when the book came out, wouldn't have changed policy one iota.
1:57 PM · Sep 9, 2020
tblue37
(65,269 posts)uponit7771
(90,323 posts)EndlessWire
(6,477 posts)until the Orange Asshole explains why he stole PPEs from honest front liners trying to do their jobs.
Why did he send broken ventilators to hated California?
Sorry, but Trump is a deadbeat grifter in it for himself. He waited to see how he could profit from it.
Why didn't he come down with it? That's the book I want to read. I want to know how his whole effing family avoided that. There's something extra there. They knew. Too bad they didn't share.
VOTE BIDEN/HARRIS
uponit7771
(90,323 posts)Make7
(8,543 posts)Q But what did you do with that time that you bought? The argument is that you bought yourself some time and you didnt use it to prepare hospitals, you didnt use it to ramp up testing. Right now
THE PRESIDENT: Youre so youre so
Q nearly 20 million people are unemployed.
THE PRESIDENT: Youre so disgraceful. Its so disgraceful the way you say that.
Q Tens of thousands of Americans are dead.
THE PRESIDENT: Let me just listen.
Q How is this sizzle reel
THE PRESIDENT: I just went over it.
Q or this rant supposed to make people feel confident
THE PRESIDENT: I just went over it.
Q in an unprecedented crisis?
THE PRESIDENT: Nobody thought we should do it. And when I did it
Q But what did you do with the time that you bought?
THE PRESIDENT: You know what we did?
Q The month of February. That
THE PRESIDENT: You know what we did?
Q That video has a gap. The entire month of February.
THE PRESIDENT: What do you do what do you do when you have no case in the whole United States when you
Q You had cases in February.
THE PRESIDENT: Excuse me. You reported it: zero cases, zero deaths on January 17th.
Q January, February the entire month of February.
THE PRESIDENT: January. I said in January.
Q Your video has a complete gap: the month of February.
THE PRESIDENT: On January 30th
Q What did your administration do in February with the time that your travel ban bought you?
THE PRESIDENT: A lot.
Q What?
THE PRESIDENT: A lot. And, in fact, well give you a list what we did. In fact, part of it was up there. We did a lot.
Q It wasnt in the video. The video had a gap.
THE PRESIDENT: Look. Look, you know youre a fake. You know that. Your whole network the way you cover it is fake. And most of you and not all of you but the people are wise to you. Thats why you have a lower a lower approval rating than youve ever had before, times probably three.
Q Twenty million people now are unemployed.
THE PRESIDENT: And when you ask me that questions
Q Tens of thousands of people are dead, Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT: Let me ask you this: Why didnt Biden why did Biden apologize? Why did he write a letter of apology?
Q I dont think the unemployed people right now care about why Joe Biden didnt apologize to you, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: Why did the Democrats think that I acted too quickly? You know why? Because they really thought that I acted too quickly. We have done a great job.
Q So get us the list of what you did in February.
THE PRESIDENT: Now, I couldve I couldve kept it open. And I couldve done what some countries are doing. Theyre getting beat up pretty badly. I could have kept it open. I thought of keeping it open because nobody has ever heard of closing down a country, let alone the United States of America. But if I would have done that, we would have had hundreds of thousands of people that would right now be dead.
Weve done this right. And we really we really have done this right. The problem is the press doesnt cover it the way it should be.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-25/
The problem is that COVID-19 was (and is) treated by the White House as a public relations problem more than as an epidemic disease. I don't think the Administration ever provided a list of what they did in February to prepare for a pandemic because it doesn't appear that they did anything significant.
Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)... treated by the White House as a public relations problem more than as an epidemic disease.
That single observation - and applying it to his response to any issue - explains literally EVERYTHING about Tя☭mp and this maladministration. Well said.
Spazito
(50,232 posts)did you mean Woodward?
Assuming you did mean Woodward, why would those who believe the focus should still be on trump's responsibility for over 190,000 dead Americans be seen as putting forth "RWTP"?
uponit7771
(90,323 posts)... told America this information or that the information would've been known by most of the population.
That's not true, there are a multitude of doctors on the talking head shows saying similar; we should've know early
Spazito
(50,232 posts)I agree with you that had trump said publicly what he said privately to Woodward regarding the seriousness of Covid19 he might well have made a difference. So many other countries' leaders did just that and the difference in the death total is stark.
FakeNoose
(32,610 posts)... maybe it means they knew about this lie and they were in on it from the beginning. If they didn't know, they should be just as angry as we are now.
jpak
(41,757 posts)RWPF!
Yup