Trump's covid response was even worse than you remember

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-covid-response-revisited

As we approach the four-year anniversary of Donald Trump suggesting from the White House podium that bleach injections could be a miracle covid cure, it’s worth underscoring that despite Republicans would have you believe, Trump’s presidency did not end in 2019.

In fact, despite all the other horrors of the Trump presidency — the family separation policy, stacking the Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues, the coup attempt — Trump’s mishandling of covid in 2020 should on its own disqualify him from ever again holding office.

It can be hard to remember now with the pandemic receding from view, but covid absolutely dominated our lives in 2020. And conservatives are eager to help you forget.

One particularly galling example on this occurred last year on Bill Maher’s “Real Time” show when conservative New York Times columnist Bret Stephens said, “If you ask many Americans ‘Were you better off in 2019, the last full year of the Trump presidency before covid’ — or today — they're going to say 2019. Because their groceries, gas didn't cost as much money. Mortgage rates weren't as high. That's just a political fact.”

This isn’t a “fact,” but instead a game of Republican Calvinball where Trump receives a mulligan for 2020, when covid ravaged the nation, while President Joe Biden racks up every penalty from the pandemic’s lingering impact.

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