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How on earth can he remain silent?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,003 posts)budkin
(6,730 posts)Trump and Barr are slamming nails into their own coffins right now. Why endanger that?
Phoenix61
(17,027 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,258 posts)sarisataka
(18,926 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,823 posts)LakeArenal
(28,889 posts)maxrandb
(15,401 posts)'Never try to get a goat to sing. It's a waste of your time, and it pisses off the goat"
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)nolabear
(42,005 posts)Hes a lightning rod. Hes not giving them the chance they want to lie about him even more and hang him around Joes neck. Hes not going to undermine Joes efforts by dominating his message. Hell do what he does but I think letting them hang themselves is working just fine.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)drray23
(7,638 posts)you don't want to hand Trump an opportunity to deflect from its current malfeasances and instead get into a fight with President Obama.
elleng
(131,410 posts)recognizes importance of TIMING in political matters.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)facts.
Trump and Barr blaming President Obama only works with Trumps base.
If Trump is going to blame President Obama for Trumps Covid failure, then Trump need to give President Obama credit for the economy up until Covid destroyed it.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Obama is playing it smart with just the right amount of public support for Biden.
Arkansas Granny
(31,543 posts)Trump needs a diversion and Obama is not taking the bait.
stonecutter357
(12,699 posts)herding cats
(19,569 posts)Obama is intelligent and even tempered enough to know not to take the bait and cause a distraction.
Damn, I miss having a sane, competent and caring leader right now desperately.
sop
(10,299 posts)took office. What could Obama possibly say to change the minds of people who believes that absurdity?
JI7
(89,289 posts)that's the only way to deal with this shit.
LakeArenal
(28,889 posts)Mariana
(14,863 posts)lettucebe
(2,337 posts)Blue Owl
(50,588 posts)(Please share this with everybody you know,and even tweet it to Faux news journos.)
https://www.facebook.com/david.furnish/posts/10221822441167061
For those complaining about Trump being blamed for the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic numbers in America: a little history lesson for everyone on both sides of the political divide. I think its important that we understand the truth, especially come November when its time to vote. Forgive the length, but its really important to understand all the facts.
In December 2013, an 18-month-old boy in Guinea was bitten by a bat and died a brutal death a day later. After that, there were five more fatal cases. When Ebola spread out of the Guinea borders into neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone in July 2014, President Obama activated the Emergency Operations Center at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. The CDC immediately deployed CDC personnel to West Africa to coordinate a response that included vector tracing, testing, education, logistics, and communication.
Altogether, the CDC, under President Obama, trained 24,655 medical workers in West Africa, educating them on how to prevent and control the disease before a single case left Africa or reached the U.S.
Working with the U.N. and the World Health Organization President Obama ordered the re-routing of travelers heading to the U.S. through certain specific airports equipped to handle mass testing.
Back home in America, more than 6,500 people were trained through mock outbreaks and practice scenarios. That was done before a single case hit America.
Three months after President Obama activated this unprecedented response, on September 30, 2014, we detected our first case in the U.S.A. A man had traveled from West Africa to Dallas and somehow slipped through the testing protocol. He was immediately detected and isolated. He died a week later. Two nurses who tended to him contracted Ebola but later recovered. All the protocols had worked. It was contained.
The Ebola epidemic could have easily become a pandemic, but thanks to the actions of our government under President Obama, it never did. Those THREE EBOLA CONFIRMED CASES were the ONLY cases of Ebola in the U.S.A. because Obama did what needed to be done THREE MONTHS PRIOR TO THE FIRST CASE.
Ebola is even more contagious than COVID-19. Had Obama not acted swiftly, millions of Americans would have died horrible, painful, deaths like something out of a horror movie (if youve never seen how Ebola kills, its horrific).
It is ironic because since President Obama acted decisively we forget about his actions since the disease never reached our shores.
Now the story of COVID-19 and Trumps response that we know about thus far:
Before anyone even knew about the disease (even in China) Trump disbanded the pandemic response team that Obama had put in place. He cut funding to the CDC, and he cut our contribution to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Trump fired Rear Admiral Timothy Ziemer, the person on the National Security Council in charge of stopping the spread of infectious diseases before they reach our country - a position created by the Obama administration.
When the outbreak started in China, Trump assumed it was Chinas problem and sent no research, supplies or help of any kind. We were in a trade war, why should he help them?
In January he received a briefing from our intelligence organizations that the outbreak was much worse than China was admitting and that it would definitely hit our country if something wasnt done to prevent it. He ignored the report, not trusting our own intelligence.
When the disease spread to Europe, the World Health Organization offered a plethora of tests to the United States. Trump turned them down, saying private companies here would make the tests better if we needed them. However, he never ordered U.S. companies to make tests and they had no profit motive to do so on their own.
According to scientists at Yale and several public university medical schools, when they asked for permission to start working on our own testing protocol and potential treatments or vaccines, they were denied by Trumps FDA.
When Trump knew about the first case in the United States he did nothing. It was just one case and the patient was isolated. When doctors and scientists started screaming in the media that this was a mistake, Trump claimed it was a liberal hoax conjured up to try to make him look bad after impeachment failed.
The next time Trump spoke of COVID-19, we had SIXTY-FOUR CONFIRMED CASES but Trump went before microphones and told the American public that we only had FIFTEEN cases and pretty soon that number will be close to zero. All while the disease was spreading, he took no action to get more tests.
What Trump did was to stop flights from China from coming here. This was too late and accomplished nothing according to scientists and doctors. By then the disease was worldwide and was already spreading exponentially in the U.S. by Americans, not Chinese people as Trump would like you to believe.
As of the moment, we have over 4 million COVID-19 CONFIRMED CASES and 150,000 COVID-19 DEATHS in the U.S.A. The actual number is undoubtedly more than triple that amount given ongoing limited availability of testing.
If you are as outraged as I am by all of this, the most important thing my friends in America can do is get out and vote in November.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Why should he lower himself to get into it with the likes of Bill Barr?
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)And know the the whole idea is laugh worthy.
Or he knows never to wrestle a pig in mud. Everyone gets muddy and the pig likes it.
If he is asked about it I would expect the classic Obama laugh.
Not worth responding to.