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"You're three years into your first term," Muir said. "You're now applying for the job again. What did you do when you became president to restock those cupboards that you say were bare?"
"Well, I'll be honest," Trump said. "I have a lot of things going on. We had a lot of people that refused to let the country be successful. They wasted a lot of time on Russia Russia Russia that turned out to be a total hoax. Then they did Ukraine Ukraine, and that was a total hoax. Then they impeached the president of the United States for absolutely no reason."
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https://www.nationalmemo.com/trump-explains-pandemic-failures-i-have-a-lot-going-on
Rorey
(8,445 posts)Well, it's really more scary than funny, especially when the narcissist has so much power.
underpants
(182,958 posts)If a contestant said I have a lot going on?
Wounded Bear
(58,755 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)It seemed to be the obvious one when he talked about "bare cupboards"?
Why didn't he re-stock the cupboards?
underpants
(182,958 posts)Like that Donna Reed.
brer cat
(24,629 posts)DallasNE
(7,404 posts)What was the inventory for PPE, ventilators, etc. on both January 2017 and January 2020. That will tell us whether the cupboards were bare and when. Did Trump fail to restock following a couple of bad hurricanes? We need answers, not excuses.
underpants
(182,958 posts)The Play Doh was during the campaign so that doesnt count.
captain queeg
(10,273 posts)I hope to god we survive till November.
randr
(12,417 posts)Key that the next words out of his mouth are lies.
sop
(10,274 posts)Kid Berwyn
(15,007 posts)So what do you and Putin talk about, Trump?
tanyev
(42,642 posts)sop
(10,274 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)sellitman
(11,608 posts)I used to feel that way about Bush. Now he seems so normal. (I know it's not really so)
bucolic_frolic
(43,393 posts)Normal people would behave differently toward this question ... with embarrassment.
dalton99a
(81,652 posts)spooky3
(34,507 posts)There is only one scoop of ice cream on the pie.
dalton99a
(81,652 posts)DallasNE
(7,404 posts)And if he was so busy why could he generate some 20 Tweets a day. Those Tweets were far more important than repeated warnings of a pandemic headed our way and an urgent need to prepare for that event. And he had time to fire the pandemic team that Obama formed for this very purpose. No, he wasn't too busy. He just made a bunch of bad decisions and Americans died as a consequence. Potentially tens of thousands died needlessly due to his incompetence.
underpants
(182,958 posts)even though he was tweeting about it aaaaand now he is claiming it was all consuming.
Like Twitter doesnt record things let alone those news people with their pens and paper and mics and cameras.
nykym
(3,063 posts)He had 3 fucking years to restock and did nothing.
IronLionZion
(45,580 posts)so it's all Obama's fault and Nancy's.
More reporters need to ask these questions. Keep asking.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)people to refill the shelves. That should have started 3 years ago. And, of course, dismantling the government's pandemic response team made it all much worse. Tiny man should have stayed in hotel management.
mountain grammy
(26,661 posts)lame54
(35,335 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,980 posts)progressoid
(50,001 posts)The political ads write themselves.
crickets
(25,987 posts)sop
(10,274 posts)Last edited Wed May 6, 2020, 02:58 PM - Edit history (1)
calimary
(81,548 posts)cayugafalls
(5,646 posts)Factcheck.org.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/trump-falsely-claims-he-inherited-empty-stockpile/
It seems the SNS never got the funding it needed to restock after H1N1. According to the article, there were people who knew about the problem and the Obama administration tried to get the funding to replace it but it never went through.
So the blame falls on the repugs in my opinion. They blocked everything President Obama tried to do and it backfired on them and now they want to lay the blame at his feet.
Well they can just go f themselves...
crickets
(25,987 posts)Republicans took over the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterms on the Tea Party wave of opposition to the landmark 2010 health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The new House majority was intent on curbing government spending, especially at HHS, which administered Obamacare.
Congressional Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell in the Senate and House Speaker John Boehner, leveraged the debt ceiling a limit on the governments borrowing ability that had to be raised to insist that the Obama administration accept federal spending curbs. The compromise, codified in the 2011 Budget Control Act, required a bipartisan super committee to find additional ways to reduce the deficit, or else it would trigger automatic across-the-board cuts known as sequestration.
Even in the aftermath of the swine flu pandemic, the stockpile wasnt a priority then. Without a full committee markup, Rehberg introduced a bill that provided $522.5 million to the stockpile, about 12% less than the previous year and $132 million less than the administration wanted. Nobody got everything they wanted, Rehberg said.
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