George Conway lays out why Trump is to blame for our botched Covid-19 response

[SunSeeker]

From Kellyanne Conway’s husband, George Conway:

"For Trump supporters, let me make one thing VERY clear!

For the record NO ONE is blaming the President for the virus. Let me repeat. Coronavirus is not Trump’s fault.
Here’s a detailed list of what we are blaming him for:

* Trump declined to use the World Health Organization’s test like other nations. Back in January, over a month before the first Covid19 case, the Chinese posted a new mysterious virus and within a week, Berlin virologists had produced the first diagnostic test. By the end of February, the WHO had shipped out tests to 60 countries. Oh, but not our government. We declined the test even as a temporary bridge until the CDC could create its own test. The question is why? We don’t know but what to look for is which pharmaceutical company eventually manufactures the test and who owns the stock. Keep tuned.

* In 2018 Trump fired Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossart, whose job was to coordinate a response to global pandemics. He was not replaced.

* In 2018 Dr. Luciana Borio, the NSC director for medical and bio-defense preparedness left the job. Trump did not replace Dr. Borio.

* In 2019 the NSC’s Senior Director for Global Health Security and bio-defense, Tim Ziemer, left the position and Trump did not replace the Rear Admiral.

* Trump shut down the entire Global Health Security and Bio-defense agency. Yes, he did.

* Amid the explosive worldwide outbreak of the virus Trump proposed a 19% cut to the budget of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention plus a 10% cut to Public Health Services and a 7% cut to Global Health Services. Those happen to be the organizations that respond to public health threats.

* In 2018, at Trump’s direction, the CDC stopped funding epidemic prevention activities in 39 out of 49 countries including China.

* Trump didn’t appoint a doctor to oversee the US response to the pandemic. He appointed Mike Pence.

* Trump has on multiple occasions sowed doubt about the severity of the virus even using the word hoax at events and rallies. He even did it at an event where the virus was being spread. Trump has put out zero useful information concerning the health risks of the virus.

* Trump pretended the virus had been contained.

* Trump left a cruise ship at sea for days, denying them proper hospital care, rather than increase his numbers in America.

Repeat. We do not blame Trump for the virus. We blame him for gutting the nation’s preparations to deal with it. We blame him for bungling testing and allowing it to spread uninhibited. We blame him for wasting taxpayer money on applause lines at his rallies (like The Wall). We blame him for putting his own political life over American human life. I hope this clears things up."

The Lincoln Project, a group led by George Conway, released a new video criticizing the president's response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10221765671790654&id=1222099697

[sheshe2]

1. K&R

[global1]

2. He Neglected To Use The Pandemic Playbook That Was Presented To His.....

Administration by the previous Administration that would have given him a roadmap to fighting this crisis.

[ancianita]

29. He also forgot to mention the nine rallies and six golf trips.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

43. Annnnnddddd the 1,795 tweets he posted between 1/1 and 3/1

and not a single one of them was to warn Americans about COVID-19.

[ancianita]

45. Even worse. But then his tweets have always been to manipulate loyalty. He believes in a nation

of men, not of laws.

America is not an idea to him, just an opportunity to control its money.

Money over humans. So no loyalty to the humans in America.

[spanone]

3. K&R He is STILL refusing to use the DPA

[not fooled]

9. It's even worse

the red don administration has used DPA repeatedly, for other programs...he just won't use it now re coronavirus, because libertarian assholes in his administration want to be able to let the rigged market allocate resources.

[link:https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a32006538/coronavirus-trump-defense-production-act/|]

All the President*'s Excuses for Not Using the Defense Production Act Were Absolute Moonshine

His administration* uses it all the time, but he'd rather turn ventilators and PPE into pork-barrel projects he can dole out.

[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/us/politics/coronavirus-defense-production-act.html|]

Wartime Production Law Has Been Used Routinely, but Not With Coronavirus

The Defense Production Act has been invoked hundreds of thousands of times in the Trump years. But with the pandemic, the president sees it as a “break the glass” last resort.

[lagomorph777]

51. It's even worse than THAT. He's shipping US-made PPE out of the country! This is genocide.

[2naSalit]

4. K&R

[zackymilly]

5. George better be nice or trump may start grabbing Kellyanne. n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. It is the Trump Catastrophe. . . . nt

[rickyhall]

7. George, you're awesome. You still living with that crazy lady?

[dhill926]

8. bookmarking this bad boy....

[ooky]

10. In the critical time he should have been organizing a coherent U.S. effort to prepare us for

the first wave of virus infections, he was using his time to play golf instead, and have political rallies instead, directly causing the needless deaths for thousands of Americans.

Trump is Nero.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

11. A reporter asked him yesterday to give an accounting of the 26m

Tests they said they had weeks ago. Neither Dipshit1 or Dipshit2 could do it...just bragged about new test which had been 5 days away. (Trump had said 3 days away)

Something is certainly amiss with tests. Where's Woodward & Bernstein

[yonder]

12. K&R

[jalan48]

13. Trump supporters aren't listening to George Conway, they're listening to his wife.

[Warpy]

14. By leaving Pence "in charge" whild micromanaging it himself

and trying to gaslight the country daily into thinking it's all over and we all need to go back to work and start doing a lot of shopping, he's continuing to bungle this whole thing badly. We will have to get through this in spite of the Feds, not with their help.

Fortunately, governors (minus De Santis) are sensible enough to institute precautions to try to decrease the spread of this monstrosity.

A sensible president, even a stupid one, would have put the SG in charge of this, not hack politician and a businessman.

I am starting to regret the fact that I won't be here in 50 years. It would be great fun to read what the literate write about this monumentally stupid man with the fatal personality disorder.

[Evolve Dammit]

15. I find he and Kellyanne more puzzling than Carville and Matilin? How the F do you co-habitate?

[SunSeeker]

16. Right? I have no clue.

[Mr.Bill]

38. I think Kellyanne is an act.

I think she plans to write the greatest tell-all book of all time. She probably thinks Nicole Kidman will play her in the movie.

[sop]

52. Kellyanne's a hired gun. If paid enough, she would shill for Satan himself.

[Brainfodder]

17. Dear George, explain the Mrs. please.

Thank You! Carry on your mighty works, and how are you gonna explain mommy vanishing to the kids?

K&R

[Doreen]

18. Didn't wifey poo just claim it wasn't trump's fault yesterday?

[TomVilmer]

19. Updated Corona statistics from FT.com March 31

https://www.ft.com/coronavirus-latest

[erronis]

22. That's a great visualization. I'll check in with the Financial Times to see how it evolves. Thanks!

[lunatica]

24. South Korea and China are the only

ones showing that they’ve peaked and are well on their way to being post pandemic.

These are very interesting graphs.

[TomVilmer]

32. Trump will make these graphs much better - with his magic marker!

[lunatica]

33. We can take that to the bank!

[lunatica]

23. I have a suspicion those countries with low COVID 19 counts

are undercounting the cases they have. Or that at least a few of them are. I suspect the Arab countries that have kings aren’t counting their own populations so that only United Nations is counting. I wonder about Africa too. There’s just so little regard for the poor.

Just a thought.

[dem4decades]

20. Trump supporters should read this. If they were able to read that is.

[lastlib]

44. Reading and comprehension are two entirely different things.......

tRumpers cannot comprehend anything that conflicts with their view of the world--they reflexively reject it as "fake news."

[somaticexperiencing]

21. He's a criminal.

[Fritz Walter]

25. Let THIS become his epitaph!

Along with identical ones for his enablers (all RepubliCONs)! And this focuses on only one of his ever-growing list of crimes against humanity.

The sooner that epitaph is written, the better! For our nation. Our species. Indeed, for our entire planet! Jeezus and crackers, what the fuck are you waiting for, Karma! Do your thing! (OK, I’m mixing belief systems here, but our survival is at stake).

[FiveGoodMen]

26. "what the fuck are you waiting for, Karma"

It's waiting to become a real thing.

Meanwhile, people that ARE real are doing things.

(mostly it's bad people doing bad things, but it's not karma)

[Beartracks]

27. During our mutual quarantine, I should forward these sorts of facts to my GOP family members.

It's not like we're getting together for any events right now, anyway.

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[SunSeeker]

30. I was relieved when my right wing in-laws cancelled coming over for Easter because of the virus.

I hate those assholes. Now I'll have a peaceful Easter with just my husband and son.

[Cha]

35. Oh darn! We're not allowed to have

visitors here unless they're bringing us necessary food and supplies.

Only can go out for food and meds.. the exceptions are to exercise.. running and walking. Thank Goodness!

StaySafe, SunSeeker!

[SunSeeker]

39. We're not either, that's why they had to cancel.

[Cha]

40. Happy Easter!

[JenniferJuniper]

28. Tell your wife, Georgie,

she missed the memo.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

31. Deadly Donnie promised the virus would just disappear in Magic April. Well?

[Cha]

34. Mahalo for this detailed report on what

exactly is trump's fault.

* Trump didn’t appoint a doctor to oversee the US response to the pandemic. He appointed Mike Pence.

* Trump has on multiple occasions sowed doubt about the severity of the virus even using the word hoax at events and rallies. He even did it at an event where the virus was being spread. Trump has put out zero useful information concerning the health risks of the virus.

* Trump pretended the virus had been contained.

* Trump left a cruise ship at sea for days, denying them proper hospital care, rather than increase his numbers in America

trump spewed that it was "a Democratic Hoax"..

[GeorgiaPeanut]

36. He lays it out so well

I hope he has traction in republican circles

[radius777]

37. Conway's videos are brutal

https://www.facebook.com/thelincolnproject.us/

really go at Trump and FOX hard re their Covid gaslighting

[trickyguy]

41. George, I really appreciate your honest assesment of the coronavirus situation and how we got

to where we are right now. Trump has left a trail of mistakes and misdeeds that stinks.

And we, the American people will suffer greatly for this.

And I did watch the video and it is damning of the president. Bravo.

[Poiuyt]

42. The question is: will Biden and the Democrats be able to make this resonate with the voters?

There's no question that trump is inept and criminally negligent. But if we can't make people see the light, there's a good chance trump will be reelected.

[C Moon]

46. Reading what he's done, my first thought is that Trump wanted a pandemic.

[colsohlibgal]

47. To Be A Fly On The Wall In That Household

Either Kellyanne is Anonymous or they have a very interesting relationship.

[keithbvadu2]

48. 'We blame him for ... allowing it to spread uninhibited.'

'We blame him for ... allowing it to spread uninhibited.'

BIGLY!

[Botany]

49. Tell me why Trump is not guilty of manslaughter?

As per the W.H.O.'s C-19 test kits Trump rejected I think it was because he wanted
to make $$$ from selling a brand that he had a stake in.

[Ingersollman]

50. All

Democratic candidates running for election should copy/paste this into their campaign ads. It is devastatingly correct.