Joe Biden lambasted President Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying in a speech Thursday that it has "laid bare the severe shortcomings of the current administration" https://t.co/SEt5oLglji— CNN (@CNN) March 13, 2020
Joe Biden has been in the arena in a way Trump simply has not, has taken harder hits, and keeps his shit together, which is something Trump simply can't do. Trump has said that no one in the US had the coronavirus issue on their radar four weeks ago, but it turns out, Biden did, earlier than that. Back when Trump's sleepy Commerce Secretary was telling us the coronavirus was a boon for job creation, Biden already recognized the problems because he'd been in the arena when H1N1 and ebola crises went down. And actually, despite Trump's shameful comparison:
Facts: The Obama administration tested 1 million people for H1N1 in the first month after the first US diagnosed case.— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) March 13, 2020
The first US #coronavirus case was 50+ days ago. And we haven't event tested 10,000 people yet. https://t.co/LxRH62NIDw
The tests, that's the thing. Everyone knows Trump is lying about how easy it is supposed to be to get tested. It keeps looking more and more like Trump was personally involved in testing being restricted to "keep the numbers down", and the lie came early. And is exactly what we all thought:
A previous tweet of this quote did not make it adequately clear that it is Trump who did not push for adequate testing, not Secretary of Health and Human Services Azar. Here is the whole quote for context. @ddiamond pic.twitter.com/ZZ2aPF53m6— Fresh Air (@nprfreshair) March 12, 2020
Trump is the reason there isn't adequate testing because he wants to "keep the numbers low". To keep his approval rating higher. Because he is an inadequate little bitch. Trump was on top of the crisis--not as a public health issue to protect Americans, but as a public relations issue to protect himself while he was dealing with impeachment and the whole Iran thing which has flared again. Trump is inadequate. Unable. Incompetent.
And for all that he wants to smear former VP Biden, the man looks presidential compared to Trump's flailing. Joe wouldn't lie to us. But we know Trump lies all the time. Even Trump's biggest fans know he lies (even if they don't want to admit it). But he is lying about a disease that can kill folks, maybe not you, but maybe your elderly/physically vulnerable relative or neighbor. And he's doing it to make his polling numbers look good. What kind of person does that? The people who are being hung out to the wind are his fellow citizens, his fellow Americans. He can try to blame the tragedy on a "foreign virus" but at the end of the day, he gets judged on his own actions, and he's coming off unprepared to do what's right, and all too prepared to do what is convenient and wrong.
When it comes down to character in a crisis, Trump doesn't have it. He doesn't belong in this office.
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