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2020 saw an American novel coronavirus epidemic that killed more than a million Americans, caused record high unemployment and the sharpest economic contraction since the Great Depression.
Why? Because The Donald could not admit in an election year that there could be such a public health emergency.
PUBLISHED TUE, MAR 17 20202:10 PM EDTUPDATED WED, MAR 18 20208:00 AM EDT
President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday he has believed the coronavirus outbreak was “a pandemic, long before it was called a pandemic” — but in January, he explicitly played down concerns when asked about it.
“No, not at all,” Trump told CNBC in a Jan. 22 interview on CNBC when “Squawk Box” co-host Joe Kernen asked him if there were worries about an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China becoming a “pandemic.”
“It’s going to be just fine,” Trump assured Kernen during the interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“We have it totally under control.”
That's a lie to divert the suggestable, the naive and ignorant from the facts. I remember TrumpeRINO frog boys on this forum suggesting that the Democratic administrations in 'blue' states were directly responsible for the epidemic. But, oh- did that change! when Trump was infected and the epidemic spread nationwide.
Trump knew that informing the American people of the danger would make him look bad in an election year-
September 9, 2020 at 7:19 p.m. EDT
President Trump acknowledged Wednesday that he intentionally played down the deadly nature of the rapidly spreading coronavirus last winter as an attempt to avoid a “frenzy,” part of an escalating damage-control effort by his top advisers to contain the fallout from a forthcoming book by The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward.
The result is on the record- a complete political failure for the Trump administration. The result went beyond a million deaths and record unemployment. Trump's incompetence collapsed the American economy: New federal data offers a comprehensive snapshot of a year marred by staggering job losses, waves of small-business closures and mounting inequalityJanuary 28, 2021 at 6:11 p.m. EST
The U.S. economy shrank by 3.5 percent in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic ravaged factories, businesses and households, pushing U.S. economic growth to a low not seen since the United States wound down wartime spending in 1946.
Overall, the economy was surprisingly resilient in the second half of the year, given the falloff at the start of the public health crisis, according to data released Thursday from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Yet, the 1 percent growth in the fourth quarter signaled a faltering recovery and a long road ahead, with 9.8 million jobs still missing and 23.8 million adults struggling to feed their families. “2020 has no precedent in modern economic history,” said David Wilcox, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a former director of the domestic economics division at the Federal Reserve. “The influenza of 1918 and 1919 predates our modern system of economic statistics, and since World War II, there’s never been a contraction that even remotely approached the severity and the breadth of the initial collapse in 2020.” Donald J trump made Joe Biden a rational option on the ballot. What would have been a walk-over election for Trump became a challenge from the opposition that should never have been presented to Trump. Trump proved himself a failure as an American leader. Mar a Lago, the rest of his antics reinforce that perception. The best thing he could do for a credible legacy is STFU- the single thing he is absolutely incapable of.
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+3/-0 TheCrow 9/6/2022 3:39:21 PM