“It is being contained.” One month ago today Kellyanne Conway chastised me for suggesting #COVID19 was spreading across US. @CBSNews #Quarantine #CornavirusOutbreak #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/L4ApHezmJs
— Paula Reid (@PaulaReidCBS) April 6, 2020
You know that thing where Trump claims he shut down travel between China and the US? He didn't. And where the administration claims they didn't know the potential scale of the spread of the disease? They were warned. And when Trump wants to congratulate himself (or solicit congratulations from anyone else) about the job he's doing right now? He should have his nose rubbed in the 70 days he did literally less than nothing, because he actively made things worse. And when he wants to put Barack Obama's name in his lying mouth about whether the national stockpiles were depleted and what ever was a poor spoiled manchild to do after three years in office, maybe someone can tell him to take responsibility for his shitty choices for once. And everyone who has publicly agreed with these palpable untruths needs to never be heard from, again. There shouldn't be any character rehab for this.
Because they lied. The administration lied. They had the information, and they lied. And Trump's lickspittle right-wing press furthered his lies. (No wonder he thinks the mainstream press is awful--they sometimes call him on it.) Trump can't do his rallies, so he has his press briefings where he lies a lot, and then maybe Pence lies a little, and he encourages others to go on ahead--lie for him. But over time, the things he says don't hold up. We can factcheck what was said.
Trump especially lies, and still does, every day. It's the only thing he knows how to do. But he couldn't lie like this by himself.
The virus wasn't contained. It wasn't going from 15 cases to zero. We crossed 10k fatalities today and may very well cross 12k fatalities tomorrow. And all Trump wants to do is lie.
Lie and get re-elected. Lie about something that is killing Americans right now, pat himself on the back, and expect to be rewarded for it.
I work with math every damn day, but that does not compute.
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