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babylonsister

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Thu May 28, 2020, 03:01 PM May 2020

Inslee says Trump coronavirus response akin to if FDR called Pearl Harbor 'a hoax'



TheHill.com
Inslee says Trump coronavirus response akin to if FDR called Pearl Harbor 'a hoax'
By Zack Budryk - 05/28/20 02:47 PM EDT


Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) said the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic has been comparable to if President Franklin Roosevelt had called the attack on Pearl Harbor a “hoax.”

Inslee told Rolling Stone in an interview that President Trump responded to the pandemic with an “abject lack of leadership.”

“It’s akin to Franklin Delano Roosevelt on December 8th, 1941, and for months thereafter, saying that Pearl Harbor was a hoax, and that the battleships weren’t important, and that the Japanese were going to surrender miraculously the next Monday,” Inslee said. “That’s kind of the scenario we have had from the current president.”

“If you can imagine Roosevelt doing that, we’ve had an equivalent of that in response to this existential crisis, and it has continued off and on even today, where we have a president who says that testing is overrated when it is absolutely fundamental to our ability to reopen our economy,” he added.


Inslee said his state, an early epicenter for the pandemic, had prepared for “a variety of emergency scenarios,” but added “there is no preparing 7 million people for something they’ve never experienced before. It’s just a shock to the system.”

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Inslee is a great governor. Kid Berwyn May 2020 #1

Kid Berwyn

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1. Inslee is a great governor.
Fri May 29, 2020, 02:03 PM
May 2020

He’d make an outstanding president. Remember when he said:

“I just received a call from @VP Mike Pence, thanking Washington state for our efforts to combat the coronavirus,” Inslee tweeted. “I told him our work would be more successful if the Trump administration stuck to the science and told the truth.”



What Dr Dim Donny Tenflusher, POS said @ CDC:

“I told Mike not to be complimentary of that governor because that governor is a snake,” Trump said, referring to Vice President Mike Pence. “So Mike may be happy with him but I'm not, OK?”

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/06/donald-trump-jay-inslee-coronavirus-123114

The Great State of Washington is plagued by a deadly disease and all Trump can do is act like a spoiled brat.


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