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applegrove

(118,863 posts)
Wed May 6, 2020, 07:08 PM May 2020

Anderson Cooper, Chris Hayes Nail Real Reason For Disbanding Coronavirus Task Force

Anderson Cooper, Chris Hayes Nail Real Reason For Disbanding Coronavirus Task Force

"The mission is obviously not accomplished, and it’s becoming clearer and clearer that Donald Trump never even really tried to accomplish it," MSNBC's Hayes said.

By Lee Moran, HuffPost US

https://m.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/donald-trump-task-force-anderson-cooper-chris-hayes_n_5eb268bbc5b66d3bfcddd05c?ri18n=true

"SNIP.....

President Donald Trump indicated Tuesday that the White House coronavirus task force may soon be shut down.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes put the looming decision down to one thing ― the 2020 election.

“It seems like they don’t want their fingerprints on this,” said Cooper.

“It seems like the federal government, the administration, is trying to pass the buck, pass the responsibility onto the states, onto mayors, onto governors, to anyone other than themselves so that they won’t take the blame come election time,” he added.

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Anderson Cooper, Chris Hayes Nail Real Reason For Disbanding Coronavirus Task Force (Original Post) applegrove May 2020 OP
My wife's take underpants May 2020 #1
That and denying COVID-19 deaths . .. Iliyah May 2020 #2
He Reversed Course ProfessorGAC May 2020 #3
The Task Force is too legit...too legit to quit! nt Shermann May 2020 #5
It's a dereliction of duty, if you ask me. Baitball Blogger May 2020 #4
Guess they don't get that going AWOL has fingerprints on it as well. Amaryllis May 2020 #6
We can do better than fingerprints, we've got the video... abqtommy May 2020 #7
Well duh! Of course it's about the 2020 election! Brother Mythos May 2020 #8
You have posted a key point. Donny Six Words: "I take no responsibility at all" Bernardo de La Paz May 2020 #9
Chris Hayes knows he won't be forgiven for his own ratfucking. Nice dodge, Chris. nt FreepFryer May 2020 #10
To Trump and friends, the victims are mostly those who, the him, are a drain on the economy. Alex4Martinez May 2020 #11

ProfessorGAC

(65,289 posts)
3. He Reversed Course
Wed May 6, 2020, 07:24 PM
May 2020

Translation: he folded.
But, his BS excuse is that the task force is too "popular" to disband.
What a tool!

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,052 posts)
9. You have posted a key point. Donny Six Words: "I take no responsibility at all"
Wed May 6, 2020, 09:38 PM
May 2020

Donald J. Trump failed to defend American lives.

Alex4Martinez

(2,198 posts)
11. To Trump and friends, the victims are mostly those who, the him, are a drain on the economy.
Wed May 6, 2020, 10:06 PM
May 2020

People of color, the elderly, those without wealth, these are the people dying off from this.

It probably makes them very happy, these 3,000 per month throughout the next several months.

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