Getting his talking points from 78-year-old former Washington Post Watergate-famed journalist Bob Woodward, 77-year-old former Vice President and Democrat nominee Joe Biden blamed 74-year-old President Donald Trump for nearly 200,000 Covid-19 deaths. Biden took Woodward’s blasphemous book “Rage” as the gospel because it tries to destroy Trump politically. Woodward takes Trump out of context saying he tried to “downplay” the virus to avoid creating panic in the public. Instead of seeing that as presidential, Woodward accused Trump of misleading the American public about the seriousness of the virus, at a time when the U.S. could have done more. But when asked what he would have done differently, Biden looks dumbfounded. His plan for the future is a national mandate for wearing masks, something once opposed by 80-year-old National Institutes of Health Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Fauci became the cornerstone of Trump’s approach to managing the virus, letting Fauci dictate the best medical strategy for managing the most dangerous infectious disease crisis since the 1918 Spanish flu global pandiemic, that killed between 50 and 100 million people worldwide. Biden knows that Trump and his coronvirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 was brought to the U.S. and Europe by infected Chinese tourists in Dec. and Jan. 2019. As soon as Trump got wind of what was happening, he banned flights from China Jan. 31, prompting Biden to call Trump “xenophobic.” “Donald Trump knew that Covid-19 was dangerous. He knew it was deadly. And he purposely downplayed it. No, nearly 200,000 Americas are dead. It’s unconscionable,” Biden said. Biden knows that World Health Organization [WHO] said Jan. 14, there was no “human-to-human” transmission in Wuhan, China.
Biden reads Democrat talking points laying the blame on Trump for an incompetent response to the virus. Yet Biden said himself after Trump banned China’s flight to the U.S. that Trump overreacted. Biden’s campaign didn’t restrict events until after March 10, one day before WHO declared a global pandemic. Biden’s a classic case of hindsight is 20/20, taking partisan excerpts from Woodward’s book and using it against the president. “I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told Woodward in a taped recording March 19. Yet Woodward knew that Trump banned flight from China, Europe and Ireland. “I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic,” Trump said. Trump never said that his administration wasn’t doing everything possible during that early phase of the epidemic to contain the virus, providing personal protective gear and building ventilators for serious cases.
Trump never told Woodward he didn’t do everything possible to contain the rapidly spreading virus, something that has killed over 197,000 Americans. Blaming Trump for the coronavirus deaths goes over the top. No other world leader in Europe or Asia has blamed by the press for the death toll, recognizing that no leader can stop a lethal infectious disease crisis. Biden released ads he approved blaming Trump for the coronvirus deaths, thinking it’s a good campaign strategy. Blaming Trump for the nation’s death toll has backfired with polls tightening in battleground states, not buying Biden’s charge that Trump was irresponsible for over 187,000 deaths. “Trump knew. Trump lied,” Biden’s ad says, completely distorting what happened in the early state of the pandemic. Trump wasn’t responsible for thousands, if not millions, of infected Chinese tourists vacationing in the United States.
Biden doesn’t know what he’s saying much of the time, essentially reading Democrat talking points on the campaign trail. Any honest person thinks that Trump did everything possible to protect the American people, including following Fauci’s advice to shut down the economy. Shutting down the economy in March through April resulted in catastrophic damage, driving 30 million U.S. citizens into unemployment, pushing the 3.5 unemployment rate to over 12%. It’s easy for Biden to look in the rearview mirror, blaming Trump for the nation’s coronavirus death toll. But if you think about, it’s an absurd, completely irrational argument because Trump had nothing to do with the spread of the virus. Listening to Biden say that Trump has blood on his hands could easily backfire because no reasonable person could possibly blame the president for the Covid-19 global pandemic.
Biden says whatever he’s given by his 40-year-old campaign manager Faiz Sakir, no matter how outrageous, how implausible or how it lacks plausible deniability. Sakir gave Joe plenty of talking points this week about last week’s unverified story in the Atlantic saying Trump called WW I war-dead “suckers” and “losers.” If Trump every made such comments, they would have come out two years ago when Trump visited Paris for the 100th anniversary of the end of WW I. Whatever lies are spawned in the anti-Trump press, you can count on Biden to repeat it, without bothering to verity it. Trump knows that Woodward’s out of sell books, or, more importantly, torpedo his 2020 presidential campaign. Blaming Trump for the Covid-19 death toll shows how desperate Democrats are now that Trump has begun to close the gap in battle ground states, much like he did four years ago with Hillary.
