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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Real Scandal Woodward's Book Reveals Is THIS:
The press is framing this as Trump knew how bad this was and didnt warn the country but really the scandal is Trump knew how bad this was and didnt launch a massive federal prevention effort.
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soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Absolutely correct
Lucky Luciano
(11,254 posts)Dont be selfish! Its not all about us!
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)economic numbers. Relentless focus.
OMGWTF
(3,955 posts)soldierant
(6,857 posts)everyione knows that the words "Trump+" and "prepare" don't belong in the same sentence without producing nonsense.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)donnie thought it would make him look bad and weak.
moondust
(19,979 posts)His failure to act or take responsibility with masks at rallies, etc., probably influenced other "leaders" like Bolsonaro to do the same, leading to many thousands of deaths outside the U.S.
2naSalit
(86,583 posts)Conclude that he meant for hundreds of thousands to die.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Sounds like typical fucking republicons to me.
Illumination
(2,458 posts)DSandra
(999 posts)China has the virus under control and is going forward well enough that their economy did not go through recession. China is more and more becoming the center of the worlds economy. With the rest of the world working with China, America is being left in the dust. Whatever chance we had of fighting this outcome is being lost because of the virus.
Beartracks
(12,809 posts)Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)and testing supplies. And also, not just not warning people of the severity and risks but actively telling them it was nothing, not to worry about it.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,013 posts)Indykatie
(3,696 posts)Minimally we should have had a Federal mask requirement. This 50 state solution approach was never going to work. We are so screwed.
spanone
(135,830 posts)The stock market is almost back to where it was before covid, yet 193,000 people are dead. Just how trump pictured it.
He must be stopped.
GOTV
The empressof all
(29,098 posts)Even I know, with my liberal arts background, the concept of Economy of Scale. Isn't that taught in Freshman level business classes? When he pitted the states against each other in obtaining supplies he was just feathering his cronies pockets. I hope to God I see him go to Prison...
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Trueblue Texan
(2,429 posts)How much financial interests do he and his family have in PPE, test kits, vaccines, etc...I cant help but wonder if thats not why hes so cavalier about possibly infecting thousands at his rallies and refuses to be straight with the American people about the real and deadly threat of Covid. And as for the money his campaign has spent...they are at a real disadvantage this late in the game and has their spending on advertising really been that heavy? Ive not noticed...but then, I live in Texas and mostly watch MSNBC in the eveningsnothing before Rachel Maddow, nothing on the weekends. But I kinda think they are squirreling away that money, lining their pockets the way they did with the inaugural monies. I wonder if any journalists are looking into this.
LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)That campaign money has been stolen just like the inaugural money. Only the people around Trump have paid for his crimes. Trump himself is unscathed, as always.
OMGWTF
(3,955 posts)Hanging is too good for this treasonous rat bastard evil fucker from hell's oven.
33taw
(2,440 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,191 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,976 posts)speaknow
(321 posts)That SOB speaks in code, so he didn't want
to panic the people? What he told Woodward
was, He didn't get a chance to tell
his rich friends and the other 1%. Those are
the people to him. 200 thousand dead and
still counting!
Jarqui
(10,123 posts)Roughly awo months after he found out about it and how severe it was.
Prioritizing and Allocating Health and Medical Resources to Respond to the Spread of COVID-19
https://www.federalregister.gov/presidential-documents/executive-orders/donald-trump/2020
They were extraordinarily slow getting PPE, ventilators, etc.
He cannot blame Obama - he'd had the reigns of power for three years - and they'd scuttled what Obama had in place to do.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)He simply doesn't possess the skill set to pull something like this off. And he has to micromanage everything. That is why we still have no national plan except for the one Obama developed and Trump ordered destroyed. No accountability rests squarely on the shoulders of Mitch McConnell. They both have to go - yesterday would not have been soon enough.
napi21
(45,806 posts)He's too damn egotistic to realize "Any President" doesn't have the skill to do EVERYTHING he could be presented with. That's why they try to choose smart, experienced people to advise them & help steer them through crises. His choices are picked because they kiss his ass well & all the time!
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)Where journalists have already accepted the ineptitude of the POTUS. The story stops at his initial deceit.
In other countries the story WOULD be the leaders woeful response and leadership on a national level in coordinating a proper response. The idea that a leader would purposely mislead his or her own people about a threat to them is N/A.
samsingh
(17,595 posts)alfredo
(60,071 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)Enoki33
(1,587 posts)crickets
(25,969 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)The scandal is that Trump knew how bad this was and decided to use it as a reason to attack his enemies. You remember Democrat hoax and China virus, correct?