Trump's Closing Pitch to Voters: I Will Let You Die If You Don't Bow to My Demands

[FightFight]

Source: rollingstone

Politico later reported that while president in 2018, Trump initially refused to approve federal aid for California to fight wildfires because he felt some of the affected regions didn’t support him. It was only after Trump was shown data about the regions voting for him that he approved the relief. “We went as far as looking up how many votes he got in those impacted areas … to show him these are people who voted for you,” Mark Harvey, then Trump’s senior director for resilience policy on the National Security Council staff, told Politico.

A year earlier, Trump blocked congressionally approved aid to Puerto Rico, an American territory populated by American citizens, in the wake of Hurricane Maria — during which Trump was publicly attacking Carmen Yulín Cruz, then the mayor of San Juan, for not being more grateful to him — and then tried to obstruct an investigation into what happened to the money.

Trump also notably tried to intimidate Democratic governors during the Covid-19 pandemic, when states were desperate for federal aid. “It’s a two-way street,” Trump said of offering New York and other states federal help as the crisis continued to claim American lives. “They have to treat us well, too.”

Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-threatens-let-americans-die-1235137748/

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Trump refused to give California wildfire aid until told how many people there voted for him, ex-aide says

AND

Yes, Trump Said He Offered Russia Help With Wildfires.

[XanaDUer2]

1. And he wasnt impeached

Stuns me. America literally had a president killing americans and it just passed into the ether. Like the paper towel throwing incident should have been bad enough.

[GB_RN]

4. And Thanks To The (Not-so) Supreme Court...

Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent can’t even be prosecuted for killing people or illegally diverting money. Because, reason, he gets full immunity for “official act” and presumed immunity for other actions.

Roberts tossed away what little was left of his reputation, and is, for some reason, profoundly confused at the negative reaction to that stupid, goddamned ruling.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent!

Love it!

[GB_RN]

15. Thanks!

😁

[DownriverDem]

9. Yes he was

trump was impeached 2 times. The Senate voted to not try him. Big difference.

[XanaDUer2]

10. Oh I meant

For denying "enemy" Americans aid. I'm aware he was impeached for other things. I was shocked him denying money to enemy states was glossed over

[Boomerproud]

17. McConnell still wouldn't have allowed an impeachment trial.

He's as guilty as anyone for the state of this country.

[relayerbob]

2. I don't think "let you" is the right tone

More like "make sure you"

[Hieronymus Phact]

3. it's a republican thing

Chris Christie did the same thing with Hurricane Sandy Aid in NJ when he was Gov. The mayors of wherever needed to endorse his campaign, or no aid money.

[mopinko]

5. iirc, putler sent us some crappy ventilators at about that time.

and sick fuck sent them to ny nursing homes. i dont think they were used, they were such shit.
anyone else remember this story?

[ChazInAz]

13. I have not forgotten.

Still wondering where our stockpile of ventilators, N95 masks and other PPE disappeared to.

[delisen]

18. Remember Jared saying fed stockpiles were theirs

and claimed they were not for the states.

So I can believe they were selectively given to supporters or disappeared.

[vapor2]

19. Ask Jared

[Bayard]

6. Make an ad

Especially show it in Calif.

[Old Crank]

7. This crop of Republicans are

enemies of hte state.

[Beartracks]

11. "It's a two-way street. They have to treat us well, too." Trump's a mobster.

[BattleRow]

14. He's a Monster Mobster

[Martin Eden]

12. We should expect MUCH WORSE if this malignant narcissist gets a 2nd term

That vile creature has said and done so many horrible things that should disqualify any candidate for public office.

[Warpy]

16. You mean instead of letting people die if they do?

Sorry, but "Covid is a hoax" is just a little too fresh in my memory.

He's a malignant narcissist. Believe him. He will start killing us.

[vapor2]

20. I wish the media would run with this crap

but his supporters would not believe it anyway. How did we get here?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. Why Obama slamming Trump on his response to Covid matters

Trump occasionally whines that he doesn’t get “credit” for the “great job” he did responding to Covid. It was smart of Obama to set the record straight.

Link to tweet

Obama’s been talking a lot more about Trump’s Covid record, and I think it’s not just another attack line:

He’s reminding voters at a key moment about one of his successor’s most catastrophic failures, which too many are too quick to forget:

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/obama-slamming-trump-response-covid-matters-rcna176624

This came to mind watching Barack Obama headline a campaign rally in Arizona over the weekend.

Link to tweet

“Listen, when I was president ... I had been talking to scientists for a while,” the former Democratic president said. “And so, in my last year in office, we put together a playbook for how to deal with the eventuality of a pandemic — because scientists had been saying, with globalization and travel, etc., rising populations, that at some point there was going to be a pandemic. And so, I said to my team, I said, ‘We’ve got to have a plan,’ just like you do for hurricanes or tornadoes or natural disasters.

“So, we put together this whole playbook, and we ran, we practiced the playbook. We get all the agencies. This is how we’re going to respond. This is how to make sure that the public health systems in all the states are working. Here’s how we’re going to think about the schools. And when Donald Trump came in, we gave over this playbook to them. But the point is, he ignored it.”

After conceding the scope of the pandemic crisis, Obama added that Trump’s failures led to a death toll that could’ve been lower through more responsible governing.

“If somebody tells you that this doesn’t make a difference — having somebody competent, somebody who cares about you, who listens to ordinary people, who listens to people who are experts in these areas — if you hear somebody say, ‘It doesn’t matter,’ it does matter,” the former Democratic president concluded.....

And did I mention that Trump also ignored the pandemic playbook left by his predecessor? Because Obama was right: The incompetent Republican did that, too.

I’m mindful of the fact that memories can be short in politics, but as Trump occasionally whines that he doesn’t get “credit” for the “great job” he did responding to the pandemic, it’s smart of his Democratic predecessor to remind Americans about what actually happened