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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs Trump gaslights America about coronavirus, Republicans face a critical choice (CNN)
Analysis by Maeve Reston, CNN
Updated 7:29 AM EDT, Mon July 06, 2020
The gulf between reality and President Donald Trump's delusional vision of a waning coronavirus threat was on full display this weekend, as cases soared in key hotspots while he delivered speeches at Mount Rushmore and at the White House, with little physical distancing and few masks, directly contradicting the advice from his public health experts.
Playing with fire at a time when experts say the spread of the virus appears to be spiraling out of control, Trump continued gaslighting Americans about the threat to their health during a Fourth of July speech from the South Lawn of the White House, where he minimized the dangers of Covid-19 with a baseless statement that 99% of coronavirus cases are "harmless," a claim his Food and Drug Administration chief could not back up Sunday morning.
With many Americans flouting public health guidelines during the holiday weekend, Trump's conduct is creating an inflection point for the GOP at a time when his poll numbers have tumbled. With American lives on the line, the question now is whether members of the Republican Party will continue to stand by in silence as the President peddles fiction about a deadly virus, and if so, will they pay a price at the ballot box in November.
While Republicans deserted Trump on the issue of facial coverings -- with many urging Americans to wear masks over the past week -- they have been mostly silent about Trump's effort to deceive the public about the risks the virus poses.
Playing with fire at a time when experts say the spread of the virus appears to be spiraling out of control, Trump continued gaslighting Americans about the threat to their health during a Fourth of July speech from the South Lawn of the White House, where he minimized the dangers of Covid-19 with a baseless statement that 99% of coronavirus cases are "harmless," a claim his Food and Drug Administration chief could not back up Sunday morning.
With many Americans flouting public health guidelines during the holiday weekend, Trump's conduct is creating an inflection point for the GOP at a time when his poll numbers have tumbled. With American lives on the line, the question now is whether members of the Republican Party will continue to stand by in silence as the President peddles fiction about a deadly virus, and if so, will they pay a price at the ballot box in November.
While Republicans deserted Trump on the issue of facial coverings -- with many urging Americans to wear masks over the past week -- they have been mostly silent about Trump's effort to deceive the public about the risks the virus poses.
Read more: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/06/politics/us-election-trump-coronavirus-republicans/index.html
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As Trump gaslights America about coronavirus, Republicans face a critical choice (CNN) (Original Post)
Mike 03
Jul 2020
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JesterCS
(1,827 posts)2. Dafuq?
obamanut2012
(26,192 posts)3. what was it?
JesterCS
(1,827 posts)4. A spam ad for cbd oils. A plain text ad with links
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)5. The reTHUGS have already failed too many "critical choices" concerning tRUMP. They're way
past their sell-by date and anything from here into the future is too little, too late for them...
Danascot
(4,699 posts)6. Will members of the Republican Party will continue to stand by in silence
as the President peddles fiction about a deadly virus?
Of course they will. They're all in for the traitor and it's too late to turn back.
Will they pay a price at the ballot box in November?
It depends on their constituents but unfortunately many won't. Hopefully enough will lose that we can send the GOP to the bench in January 2121.