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He shut down travel to China and put together a task force when only 2 people in the US had it and his "top epidemiologist" was saying that it was not a big deal for the US. He quarantined those that came back from China and the ACLU shat all over him....
Democrats were all over him for the travel ban to China as xenophobic and then pissed on him for not consulting more people when he banned travel with Europe. He tried to get a Stimulus bill passed, but the House Democrats stuffed it with socialist and climate agenda stuff. The Senate democrats delayed it another 6 days. He allowed corporations to do the right thing before taking authoritarian rule on them, or woulda been shite on for that. The death toll from this thing is going to be less than the flu 2 years ago and we fricked our economy for it. Now you want to do this every time a new virus (thousands a year) come out....You are out of your fricking mind. You hate America because OMB. It's sick, its worse disease than Corona, it's called TDS.

All of this. There's really nothing else to say regarding how President Trump responded to the Coronavirus Pandemic. Trump's opponents can site all the doomsday predictions they want from various advisers but no sitting President is going to take action based on the most extreme opinions/worst case scenarios.

President Obama didn't do it/took a measured response and luckily the Swine Flu Pandemic ran it's course and the economy rolled right along at a steady pace. Obama was fortunate that a compliant liberal media supported his every whim.

Flash forward and President Trump has been under a vicious attack from Democrats and the MSM from day 1 of his administration to the extent that there were impeachment votes being conducted in Congress at the very time that Trump was having to determine our Coronavirus response. Trump also took a measured response but acted much more quickly and decisively than did Obama and was immediately attacked by the left for shutting down travel between the U.S and China and later Europe.

Meanwhile the posters in this board with TDS have the nerve to suggest that Trump was slow to respond. And compare the U.S. situation with tiny nations like Denmark and Austria who have homogeneous populations.

Our death rate remains significantly lower than the world as a whole and a year from now once we do enough antibody testing to have representative sample there's no doubt in my mind that there will be millions of people who have been exposed who did not die and will be counted in the denominator of the equation.

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Posted by athens-ga

athens, ga

Member since Jun 2013

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Posted on 4/7/20 at 10:45 am to GurleyGirl

People falling for a compromised conman who lies every day to his supporters because he tells them what they want to hear.

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Posted by Lucius Clay

Member since Sep 2012

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Posted on 4/7/20 at 12:39 pm to GurleyGirl

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President Trump has been under a vicious attack from Democrats and the MSM from day 1 of his administration

Exactly as President Obama was under a vicious attack from Republicans and Fox (not to mention extreme alt-right outlets) from day 1 of his administration.

See how that works?

Trump was also taking golf trips in February and holding rallies...so he clearly wasn't so "distracted" by impeachment. His statements minimizing the virus are all on video and easy to find...unless you think the liberal media doctored the tapes.

But OF COURSE he wanted to minimize and wish it all away for a few weeks. He owns hotels and resorts for goodness sake! Not to mention, he had a vested interest in avoiding a stock market crash...not because he cares about the average person and his/her savings, but because of concern about impact on his reelection. He shifted when advisors began warning him that high death rates would not be good for reelection.

Trump is a likely sociopath and a con artist who has done a wonderful job of culling a coalition of religious hypocrites (how could any self-proclaimed evangelical Christian NOT be a hypocrite to even be in the same room as Donald Trump?); the working class racist voting block; so-called red blooded patriots (most of whom can't answer questions from a Civics and Government 101 test) and the amoral portion of the ultra-rich (his TRUE beneficiaries - especially in his own family).

He knows that he has to be re-elected because he will spend the rest of his life, once out of office, facing numerous state prosecutions -- not to mention civil suits. He's got to pack as many courts as he can until that time!

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