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yellow dahlia

(6,453 posts)
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 11:48 AM Sep 2025

He just said: a leftist experiment brought us a worldwide pandemic.

NO! The grifter brought us a world wide pandemic. It has always bothered me that the reality has never gotten enough press coverage. I believe if the epidemiological experts and staff who should have been in place, in China, had been there, "we" could have stopped the virus before it spread. Disease surveillance saves lives.

The grifter reduced the CDC staff in China from 44 in March 2017 to 14 in March 2020. Many of the CDC staffers let go were Chinese nationals - they included medical and disease experts with deep institutional knowledge. Trump had cut CDC staff in Beijing from eight to four Americans. (I got these specific numbers from factcheck.org)

"CDC cut its staff from 14 to five during that time in the Division of Global Health Protection — which is charged with helping “to stop potential pandemics at the source." (from factcheck.org)

I initially saw these numbers in a Reuters article by Marisa Taylor on March 25, 2020. Here is an archived link to the article, titled "U.S. slashed CDC staff inside China prior to coronavirus outbreak". https://archive.ph/6mqrl

According to a March 23, 2020 Reuters article from Marisa Taylor, the Trump administration eliminated an American medical epidemiologist embedded in China's disease control agency in Beijing, in July 2019. "...Dr. Linda Quick, was a trainer of Chinese field epidemiologists who were deployed to the epicenter of outbreaks to help track, investigate and contain diseases." "As an American CDC employee, they said, Quick was in an ideal position to be the eyes and ears on the ground for the United States and other countries on the coronavirus outbreak, and might have alerted them to the growing threat weeks earlier." Here is an archived article. https://archive.ph/yLUCA#selection-991.0-1011.14

When the grifter is to blame for something, he always blames others. I have always believed (in my heart) if anyone else had been president of the US in 2019, we would not have had a world wide pandemic. We do disease surveillance for a reason.

The grifter did SO much damage in DJT 1.0, and I feared what 2.0 would bring, with good reason. I watch the everlasting destruction unfold every day.

He made this statement during a completely unhinged speech that he just gave at the U.N. And elements of that speech portend more damage and destruction. He is undermining our place in the world.







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He just said: a leftist experiment brought us a worldwide pandemic. (Original Post) yellow dahlia Sep 2025 OP
He must think they are incredibly gullible BOSSHOG Sep 2025 #1
He's out to rewrite history NCDem47 Sep 2025 #2
IT'S NOT MY FAULT! Was he sole focus from the beginning underpants Sep 2025 #7
That is a great post - thank you. Definitely 'rec'd' ... and bookmarked ... rog Sep 2025 #3
Thank you! yellow dahlia Sep 2025 #6
Stoke violence a little more against liberals johnnyfins Sep 2025 #4
BTW: EPSTEIN!!!!! johnnyfins Sep 2025 #5

BOSSHOG

(44,738 posts)
1. He must think they are incredibly gullible
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 11:56 AM
Sep 2025

that they will swallow anything. He knows, and tosses and turns at night. Nightmares of EPSTEIN occupies all his hours. He must keep up with the lies and the hate. It has always been what he is. Imagine those like Leavitt saddled with him for the rest of their lives.

NCDem47

(3,523 posts)
2. He's out to rewrite history
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 11:59 AM
Sep 2025

His handling of Covid brought his downfall for 1.0 He simply cannot allow that to stand. Just like MAGAs will go to their grave with the 2020 election thinking he was "cheated, not defeated" (seriously, I saw this on a bumper sticker).

underpants

(197,171 posts)
7. IT'S NOT MY FAULT! Was he sole focus from the beginning
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:12 PM
Sep 2025

He so self absorbed he think all anyone thinks about is him.

rog

(964 posts)
3. That is a great post - thank you. Definitely 'rec'd' ... and bookmarked ...
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 12:04 PM
Sep 2025

... so I have access to the sources you cited.

Thanks again!

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