Townhall: "He didn't answer anything," Tubiana told me afterward. "He was lying through his teeth."
Paul Tubiana of Bethlehem, PA was the first questioner. He asked: "Mr. President, I voted for you in 2016. I'm a conservative, pro-life and diabetic. I've had to dodge people who don't care about social distancing and wearing face masks. I thought you were doing a good job with the pandemic response until about May 1. Then you took your foot off the gas pedal. Why did you throw vulnerable people like me under the bus?"
I held my breath. Trump has never been challenged about his mishandling of the pandemic quite like that before. Trump's initial response: "Well, we really didn’t, Paul." And then he blamed China and promised that "we're within weeks of getting" a vaccine.
"He didn't answer anything," Tubiana told me afterward. "He was lying through his teeth."
Tubiana is like so many people: As the pandemic raged, "I was feeling scared, alone and powerless," he said. He said "there were failures of government on both sides of the aisle" last winter and spring, but he felt like Trump stopped providing leadership as the crisis continued from spring to summer. He said he thought Trump stuck to "canned responses" at the town hall.
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Donald Trump is a crazy, lying bigot, said ... his closest allies?
Then Sen. Ted Cruz says, “Whatever he does he accused everyone else of doing. The man cannot tell the truth but he combines it with being a narcissist. A narcissist at a level I don’t think this country’s ever seen.”
Cut to Sen. Rand Paul, saying, “My concern is that he would grab up that power and really treat the country as sort of his little bully fiefdom.”
Haley, Conway and Beck were critics
Then former South Carolina governor and ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, who’ll speak at the Republican convention this week says, “Donald Trump is everything I taught my children not to do in kindergarten.”
Sen. Marco Rubio says, “Donald Trump has been exploiting working Americans for forty years.”
Lindsey Graham again, “He’s a race-bating xenophobic religious bigot.”
Long-time senior White House advisor Kellyanne Conway says of Trump, “He says he’s for the little guy but he’s actually built a lot of his businesses on the backs of the little guy.”
Before he became Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo said, “Donald Trump said the other day that if he ‘told a soldier to commit a war crime he would go do it.’ ”
Conservative radio and TV host Glenn Beck says, “I don’t think Donald Trump has even read the constitution, knows what’s in the constitution.”
having posted that; I swear I self-deleted that post as several others made my observation much earlier.
JFC, we're so fucked. 
a good response until May 1st". he 's NEVER had any decent response.
he called it a "democrat hoax for 70 days" while playing golf and staging hate fest ralles. WASTING Precious Time!
Appreciate that you're noticing the Puppet is Lying through his teeth NOW though. 
