The Banter Brief: The Mind Blowing Failure Of Trump's Coronavirus Leadership

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It didn't have to be this way.

https://thebanter.substack.com/p/the-banter-brief-the-mind-blowing

US Leads The World In Coronovirus Cases

"You have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero."



That was Donald Trump one month ago informing Americans not to worry about a pandemic that had just brought China to its knees and was rapidly spreading in Europe. According to The Washington Post, U.S. intelligence agencies “were issuing ominous, classified warnings in January and February about the global danger of the coronavirus while President Trump and lawmakers played down the threat and failed to take action that might have slowed the spread of the pathogen."

Now the United States officially has the most confirmed COVID-19 cases anywhere in the world. Trump’s lack of leadership has been worse than shocking — it has been criminal. He underplayed and dismissed the threat, has lied and made misleading statements about the virus almost daily, and refused to use the power of the federal government (using the Defense Procurement Act) to get much needed medical equipment to desperate states for fear of upsetting CEOs and upending the stock market. The enormity of Trump’s incompetence will almost certainly kill people as hospitals around the country are woefully unprepared for what is about to happen.

According to Trump, the US will be “open” for Easter — a date he picked no doubt to appeal to his evangelical base. The virus however, clearly has other ideas as it spreads through the States like wildfire. Medical professionals, governors, and Trump’s own advisors are openly defying the president’s statements on the virus, and there are now mass appeals for media outlets to stop broadcasting the president’s briefings.

The only upside to all of this is the knowledge that this virus is going to expose Donald Trump for the fraud he is. The US is at the very beginning of the Coronavirus crisis, so the reality of it has yet to fully set in (Trump’s approval rating is actually climbing this week). But as the death mounts, the scale of Trump’s mishandling of this epidemic will be made gruesomely clear.

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[abqtommy]

1. Is anybody surprised? tRUMP has always been a failure, it's in his DNA. Now isn't the time to

repeat the loooong list of his failures, now is the time to get him out of power and his cultists with him.

[Newest Reality]

2. His tremendous failure and wilful negligence...

His tremendous failure and wilful negligence need to be made explicitly, gruesomely clear.

He may say he takes no responsibility, but it is obvious that the severity and deaths we are seeing were his responsibility and are. You could even take that in the literal meaning of the word: ability to respond. I consider this both an opportune denial of the facts from the start mixed with his corny character as the dolt who went to Dunning-Kruger U and even failed that.

His manipulations are continuing and the rhetoric moves and deceives some, but the reality of this will set in and underscore the actuality of this Monster in Charge.

If the media does not hammer this home as the rates skyrocket, then they are complicit and more concerned about their corporate state than ours.

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3. +100000