RNC propaganda: "Impeachment kept Trump from focusing on the virus"

[steve2470]

Link to tweet

Total BS of course.

[Walleye]

1. Because he spent all of his time testifying and providing documents?

[KayF]

2. doomed to failure

For this to work you have to picture Trump hard at work but being distracted. This could work with any other president but impossible with Trump.

[CatMor]

3. The CDC is who should have been focusing on the virus ..

but he dismantled much of it to rid it of the good President Obama did. Now the insane idiot wants to be the leader.

[procon]

4. All the rally stage shows, golf outings, trips to his properties,

the non stop interviews on Faux News, his incessant photo ops, the gourmet KFC big bucket deals, and the TV viewing time, or twitter barrages... nope, they didn't distract him frm his presidential duties,

[JHB]

5. Of course, a president who didn't deserve to be impeached...

...would have had staff that could handle the details.

[Zambero]

6. OK then RNC -- So he's self-absorbed, incompetent, and utterly unfit for office

Could you tell us something we don't already know?

[Mc Mike]

7. It ended 2/5. He needed 6 weeks of rest after that, to recover from it.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. Let's not forgot how he never hesitated to spring into action........

to begin his loyalty purges, starting with Vindman and his brother.

[Mc Mike]

13. His 120 million dollars worth of golfing...

His schedule where he starts work at 11 am, and works 3 hrs a day, at most.

His constant campaign rallies.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

16. Yup

He's "working" so hard he doesn't have time to work. OTOH it's good that he isn't more engaged in things because it limits his destructiveness (although that's mostly left to his minions) but OTOH we should never just allow POTUS to just be allowed to dither around all day like Trump has.

[Mc Mike]

20. All the time he spends watching tv...

All the time he spends tweeting and retweeting...

All the time he spends on his constant grudge feuding.

But yeah, you're right. We're lucky he's so lazy, inept, and stupid, because it cuts down the number of hours of evil activities, and the degree of effectiveness of those hours.

[caraher]

24. The same day Senators implored the administration to take action

“On February 5th, I sat in a meeting with top administration officials as Senators pressed them to request emergency funding to hire staff and stockpile supplies for the coming crisis,” (Democratic Senator Chris) Murphy tweeted. “They said they had it covered. Didn’t need any additional funding.”

Somehow a lot of other people in the know had the ability to walk and chew gum at the same time.

Murphy told me that in that briefing — which was attended by two leading officials, Anthony S. Fauci and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar — numerous lawmakers demanded to know why the administration wasn’t asking Congress for funding for medical supplies.

“Their position was that this wasn’t the moment to start panicking, staffing up and buying supplies,” Murphy continued.

Crucially, several lawmakers were already telling administration officials that “our local public health systems were fundamentally just not ready,” Murphy told me. “States were beginning to grapple with some of the most thorny questions, and it was clear the administration didn’t understand the scope of what was going to be necessary.”

[Mc Mike]

25. Thanks, cara. He was too busy then taking victory laps and plotting to get even with his enemies.

Good Greg Sargent article. Why start preparing by ramping up readiness and stockpiling supplies?

He was real busy politicizing the Justice Dept and launching bogus investigations.

Rump can't walk or chew gum, even separately.

[Chainfire]

8. One of the characteristics of a President

Should be able to keep two balls in the air at the same time. The question becomes what if the Russians attacked when an NPR reporter was asking a "nasty" question?

At least, it is an admission of guilt, with a lame excuse for an excuse.

The old boy is a one trick pony, all he does well is lie.

[bluestarone]

9. Ofcourse he didn't go GOLFING at all right?

How fucking dumb do THEY think we are?

[BSdetect]

10. We can't expect a government to multitask. One thing at a time. Lower the bar.

[Takket]

12. The next case of "throwing spaghetti at the wall"

So we can add this to the list of:

It’s a hoax
Everything is going great
Obama left a mess
We should just let the elderly die for Wall Street
No one could see this coming
China didn’t tell us it was bad
Nurses are stealing the masks
There are no cars at the hospital
It is all media hype
It’s a second impeachment
Rating as great because public lives drumpf

AM I MISSING ANYTHING?

If rethugs spent one tenth the amount of time actually solving problems as they do trying to defend drumpf for EVERYTHING, they might actually be able to accomplish something useful.

[NRaleighLiberal]

14. oh yeah, that's the ticket. Mitch channels Jon Lovitz

[duforsure]

15. I sugest it was what 10-12 times playing golf,

All the time he's spent watching Fox News,and all the time he was on twitter trying to start fights with others . Then there's all the time he spent trying to get all his crimes covered up, preventing investigations from happening and keeping up with all the lying he's done, and all the time he spends trying to bribe or threaten judges and others, and all the time he probably spends with a mistress. The impeachment was nothing compared to all this other stuff he's probably been doing.

[struggle4progress]

17. Guests at Trump National Golf Club disco party get coronavirus

Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times
Updated 3:18 pm EDT, Wednesday, March 25, 2020

... Susan Brooks rang in her seventh decade, disco style, in the upstairs ballroom at the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes.

There were local politicos, hors d'oeuvres, dancing and a lingering, if not overriding, worry of the novel coronavirus, which on March 8 had yet to paralyze daily life in Southern California.

There was also, it turns out, the virus itself. Brooks learned a week later a party-goer had tested positive for COVID-19, the infection caused by the coronavirus. She soon tested positive herself, along with three other guests ...

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/coronavirus/article/Guests-at-Trump-National-Golf-Club-disco-party-15156346.php

[lpbk2713]

18. It's not a one man band.

Or it wouldn't be if he didn't fire everyone who knew what they were doing.

[Qutzupalotl]

19. David Frum for the win:

Link to tweet

"Your honor, my client would never have crashed his car into the daycare center killing all those kids if the police had not chased him after the bank robbery."

[LizBeth]

22. Well, so now they are owning they fell short on response. What is his excuse of ignoring it all Feb?

[LizBeth]

21. A President should not be so easily distracted, especially in life and death situations. Shows again

how unqualified the man is.

[nuxvomica]

23. So they came up with every way to dismiss impeachment at the time

except the looming pandemic? How'd they miss that one?

[CanonRay]

26. So they admit he wasn't focused on his job?

Good

[ProfessorGAC]

27. So, They're Admitting...

...that the guy in the White House CANNOT FOCUS ON MORE THAN ONE THING AT A TIME!
Not exactly an endorsement.

[kentuck]

28. Yep. They are admitting he didn't focus on it.

That's quite an admission.

[spanone]

29. That's acres of bullshit. They have an excuse for everything.

There's no excuse for trump. His own words condemn him.

"This is a flu. This is like a flu"; "Now, you treat this like a flu"; "It's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner."

"So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths," he tweeted on March 9. "Think about that!"

“No. Not at all. And we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”

“We have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five. And those people are all recuperating successfully.”

“Well, we pretty much shut it down coming in from China. We have a tremendous relationship with China, which is a very positive thing. Getting along with China, getting along with Russia, getting along with these countries.”

“Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away,” he told the rally.

“I think the numbers are going to get progressively better as we go along.” Four days later, he pronounced the situation “very much under control,” and added: “We had 12, at one point. And now they’ve gotten very much better. Many of them are fully recovered.”

“We’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.”

“It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.” On Feb. 29, he said a vaccine would be available “very quickly” and “very rapidly” and praised his administration’s actions as “the most aggressive taken by any country.”

“We’re talking about a much smaller range” of deaths than from the flu, he said on March 2. “It’s very mild,” he told Hannity on March 4. On March 7, he said, “I’m not concerned at all.” On March 10, he promised: “It will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.”

“There is no testing kit shortage, nor has there ever been.”

“Anybody that wants a test can get a test.”

"I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it. Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president."

[malaise]

30. He actually denied this yesterday

because he had given himself a 10 out of 10. I did laugh