He Lied to Your Faces. He lied behind your back. Repeatedly. On Purpose.
He told a FAKE NEWS lying reporter all about it, who he knew was writing a book. On Tape. With Permission. For the Record. Repeatedly.
Trump.45 talked on tape in his own words for 18 interviews, as recently as 30 days ago.
COVID-19 is Deadly Stuff. Much Worse than the Strenuous Flus.
It spreads through the air. He always wanted to downplay it.
What’s it going to take, Red State Trumpers?
Deliberate, on the record verbatim audio tape recordings.
190,796 Americans Dead in Seven Months. Six Million More Sick (actually 6,359,576). As of 9 PM tonight September 9, 2020, according to authoritative Johns Hopkins CSSE COVID-10 tracker.
I get it that poorly run Democrat state deaths don’t count for much in the scheme of things. You know, nasty incompetently run places like New York, California, Connecticut, Michigan, Illinois, and the like.
But what about 4,970 good Trump friendly Red State Louisianans? My friends and neighbors.
How about 13, 962 of our Red America brothers and sisters dead from Covid just next door in Texas. What about 12,115 dead in our nearby Red State of Florida? And 6,128 of our Southern friends in Red America Georgia, struck down dead by Deadly Stuff Covid in just 7 short months, and no end in sight?
But the state by state inventory of current American carnage doesn’t do justice to this Deadly Stuff. Across the entire Great USA, our land of freedom and promise, here are the 10 states with the Most Covid Deaths in only the past week (from the New York Times database). They are Texas, California, Florida, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Throw out blue incompetent California at #3, and Illinois at #10. All the rest are our true Red State brothers, solid Trump supporters, and getting the Hell kicked out of them. Every one of these states had at least 100 new deaths just this week.
But it gets worse still. We have already proven here in all of America beyond doubt or contradiction that when Covid Cases rise, inevitably soon thereafter (2-3 weeks) Covid Deaths rise in lockstep fashion. So, here are the 10 Worst States in America for new Covid Cases in the past 7 days. This List of Shame includes North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Mississippi. (The list also includes Guam but does that distant territory actually count in Trump’s Red America. They can’t even vote. And who can even find them on a Map?)
Here we don’t need to discount or adjust for any poorly run Blue State numbers. There aren’t any Blue enclaves doing this badly now. All these nine fellow Red America States had at least 1,000 new cases of Covid just this past week; even low population, rural North and South Dakota each had more than 1,500 cases, with no letup. To avoid panic, I’m quite sure their mess is not related to the maskless, non-socially distanced Sturgis Rally in mid-August, because Governor Noem says so, and proud of it.
The Daily Death graph from the Washington Post tracker shows our US daily losses since July 4 range from 700-1,000 per day, on weekly average. Our current national death toll is worse than it was throughout June. Finally, the double graphs of Daily US Cases and Deaths from the New York Times demonstrates that our nation’s new cases, right this very moment are worse than they were at the original “Initial Highest Peak” in April and May. Our latest 7-day rolling average of new Covid Cases is about 40,000 or twice as our lowest control point in June when the pandemic social controls were in maximum force.
Back of the Envelope Eyeball measurement shows our current position is twice as bad as it was at the beginning of summer. And that’s before the impact of schools and colleges fully reopening in-person, and people getting tired of social distancing and wearing masks is felt in the next several weeks.
America better watch out this month for what’s coming. And Red America is fixing to have a pure mess with live football and cooler temperatures with increased indoor activity coming in the fall right around the corner. Not to mention the Old Regular Flu season on tap, maybe even the Strenuous kind.
Deadly Stuff. Trump.45 always wants to Play it Down.
It is What It is.
We’re going to get it in the neck. Believing Trump.45 about anything COVID-19 is a harmful medical pre-condition, for sure in 2020.
And he said it all freely and openly on tape back in February. To a lying FAKE NEWS reporter.
From the Washington Post article today:
In their final interview, on July 21, Trump vented to Woodward: “The virus has nothing to do with me. It’s not my fault.”
Fool me once, shame on him. Fool me twice…
Let Jon Stewart take this one. Watch it on You Tube.
What we need is a little #MAGA Covid Merch to celebrate the Virus Going Away, Like a Miracle. Real Soon Now. Shirt design is free to copy and distribute. Say $19.95 per high quality cotton shirt? Is Brad Parscale available for digital marketing?
From The Washington Post summary today:
President Trump’s head popped up during his top-secret intelligence briefing in the Oval Office on Jan. 28 when the discussion turned to the coronavirus outbreak in China.
“This will be the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency,” national security adviser Robert C. O’Brien told Trump, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward. “This is going to be the roughest thing you face.”
Matthew Pottinger, the deputy national security adviser, agreed. He told the president that after reaching contacts in China, it was evident that the world faced a health emergency on par with the flu pandemic of 1918, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide.
Ten days later, Trump called Woodward and revealed that he thought the situation was far more dire than what he had been saying publicly.
“You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump said in a Feb. 7 call. “And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flus.”
“This is deadly stuff,” the president repeated for emphasis.
At that time, Trump was telling the nation that the virus was no worse than a seasonal flu, predicting it would soon disappear and insisting that the U.S. government had it totally under control. It would be several weeks before he would publicly acknowledge that the virus was no ordinary flu and that it could be transmitted through the air.
Trump admitted to Woodward on March 19 that he deliberately minimized the danger. “I wanted to always play it down,” the president said. “I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.”
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The book charts the Trump administration’s failings and missteps on the pandemic, as well as the decisions and actions of Pottinger, the deputy national security adviser, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield, infectious-disease expert Anthony S. Fauci and others.
Fauci at one point tells others that the president “is on a separate channel” and unfocused in meetings, with “rudderless” leadership, according to Woodward. “His attention span is like a minus number,” Fauci said, according to Woodward. “His sole purpose is to get reelected.”
In one Oval Office meeting recounted by Woodward, after Trump had made false statements in a news briefing, Fauci said in front of him: “We can’t let the president be out there being vulnerable, saying something that’s going to come back and bite him.” Pence, Kushner, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and senior policy adviser Stephen Miller tensed up at once, Woodward writes, surprised Fauci would talk in front of Trump that way.
Woodward describes Fauci as particularly disappointed in Kushner for talking like a cheerleader as if everything was great. In June, as the virus was spreading wildly coast to coast and case numbers soared in Arizona, Florida, Texas and other states, Kushner said of Trump, “The goal is to get his head from governing to campaigning.”
Woodward writes that Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) suggested that former president George W. Bush speak personally with Trump about global vaccine efforts but that Bush demurred.
“No. No,” Bush told Graham, according to Woodward. “He’d misconstrue anything I said.”
In their final interview, on July 21, Trump vented to Woodward: “The virus has nothing to do with me. It’s not my fault.”
Selected References:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/trump-bob-woodward-interviews/index.html
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-told-woodward-he-always-downplayed-threat-of-covid-19-2020-9