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TRUMP VS. BIDEN, A TALE OF TWO CORONAVIRUS RESPONSES (via @ThePlumLineGS @washingtonpost)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/06/trump-versus-biden-coronavirus-timeline-is-utterly-damning/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/06/trump-versus-biden-coronavirus-timeline-is-utterly-damning/
Jan. 22: Trump says “we have it totally under control” and “it’s going to be just fine.”
Jan. 22: @RonaldKlain, Biden adviser & Obama ebola czar, knocks Trump for dismissing coronavirus and calls for “expertise” to “guide critical decisions” — noting “reasons for great concern.”
Jan. 22: @RonaldKlain, Biden adviser & Obama ebola czar, knocks Trump for dismissing coronavirus and calls for “expertise” to “guide critical decisions” — noting “reasons for great concern.”
Jan. 24: Trump praises China for its efforts to contain the coronavirus & says: “It will all work out well.”
Jan. 27: Biden publishes op-ed criticizing Trump for leaving us "unprepared for a dangerous epidemic,” and warns that coronavirus “will get worse before it gets better.”
Jan. 27: Biden publishes op-ed criticizing Trump for leaving us "unprepared for a dangerous epidemic,” and warns that coronavirus “will get worse before it gets better.”
Jan. 30: Trump says at a rally in Michigan: “We think we have it very well under control.”
Jan. 31: Biden tells reporters in Iowa that “science” must “lead the way,” adding: “We have, right now, a crisis with the coronavirus.”
Jan. 31: Biden tells reporters in Iowa that “science” must “lead the way,” adding: “We have, right now, a crisis with the coronavirus.”
Feb. 1: Biden, “We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science.”
Feb. 2: Trump on Hannity: “We pretty much shut it down, coming in from China.” Trump praises “tremendous relationship” with China, and adds: “We did shut it down, yes.”
Feb. 2: Trump on Hannity: “We pretty much shut it down, coming in from China.” Trump praises “tremendous relationship” with China, and adds: “We did shut it down, yes.”
Feb. 10: Trump claims “a lot of people” think coronavirus “goes away in April with the heat,” adding that we only have “11 cases,” and that “we’re in great shape.”
Feb. 11: Biden goes on MSNBC and lambasts Trump for claiming coronavirus will disappear in the warm weather.
Feb. 11: Biden goes on MSNBC and lambasts Trump for claiming coronavirus will disappear in the warm weather.
Feb. 26: Trump claims media is conspiring with Democrats to hype the coronavirus to rattle the markets. Trump says the coronavirus is “going very substantially down, not up.”
Feb. 28: Biden calls on Trump to stop downplaying it and urges him to “let the experts take this over."
Feb. 28: Biden calls on Trump to stop downplaying it and urges him to “let the experts take this over."
March 12: Biden gives speech stressing the importance of presidential truth-telling amid crises, noting that Trump’s ongoing falsifications risk leaving Americans without reliable guidance, compounding “public fears.”
March 13: Trump says: “I don’t take responsibility at all.”
March 13: Trump says: “I don’t take responsibility at all.”
March 15: Biden calls for widespread free testing and responds, “It is the job of the president to take responsibility — and his response is unacceptable.”
March 17: After all that, Trump preposterously proclaims: “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
March 17: After all that, Trump preposterously proclaims: “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
