Coronavirus: Trump’s blunders ten aanzien van het virus zijn opgelopen tot een totaal van 356

Ontving
een mail die terug is te leiden naar het team van Elizabeth Warren
(Democratische Partij). Heb normaal gesproken weinig zin om berichten
van een politicus te plaatsen, zeker als e.e.a. kritiek is op Trump,
de zittende president, echter in dit geval maak ik een uitzondering
vanwege de inhoud.

Trump
heeft intussen al zoveel over het Coronavirus gezegd en ‘getwitterd’,
dat het zaak is deze meer dan achterlijke uitlatingen van deze
psychopathische massamoordenaar niet te vergeten, zeker nu meer dan
duidelijk is dat hij de Coronacrisis tot één van de onderwerpen van
zijn herverkiezingscampagne gebruikt…… De megalomane rotzak heeft
bedacht om de arme burgers in de VS $ 1,200.– te geven en heeft de cheque
die deze mensen ontvangen laten voorzien van zijn handtekening….. En dan durft men in
de VS nog steeds naar Rusland te wijzen als land dat de verkiezingen
in de VS manipuleert….. (terwijl het juist de VS is dat al meer dan
100 jaar verkiezingen elders beïnvloed voor haar belangen in zo’n
buitenland…..)

Aanvankelijk
bagatelliseerde Trump de toestand rond het Coronavirus, het zou een
griepje zijn waar de VS amper last van zou ondervinden, hij stelde
zelfs dat rond half maart de ellende van het Coronavirus al voorbij
zou zijn…… Toen de zaak toch ‘iets anders’ in elkaar bleek te
zitten, gaf hij de schuld voor de virus uitbraak aan China, waarbij
hij dit land ronduit demoniseerde en hij daarmee haat zaaide tegen VS
burgers met Oost-Aziatische wortels….. Nu durft hij het imbeciele
deel van zijn achterban wijs te maken dat wanneer zijn muur tussen de VS
en Mexico al was gebouwd, het virus de VS niet binnen zou zijn
gekomen….. Totaal belachelijk natuurlijk en ook daarmee zaait hij
haat, maar nu tegen VS burgers die wortels hebben in Latijns-Amerika…….

Een paar
dagen geleden nog liet Trump weten dat de VS binnenkort weer open
kan, ofwel: ‘het moet afgelopen zijn met de sluiting van zaken en
industrieën’, terwijl het aantal (ook dodelijke) slachtoffers in de
VS blijft stijgen……

Voorts
heeft Trump meermaals een tirade gehouden tegen het stemmen per post,
belangrijk voor staten waar hij niet populair is en hij met zijn
handelen mensen de keus geeft het virus op te lopen door te stemmen,
of thuis te blijven en niet te gaan stemmen…..

In het
hieronder opgenomen schrijven worden een aantal punten opgevoerd, die
laten zien hoe bijzonder slecht Trump is in het handelen t.a.v. de
Coronacrisis

Hier een
paar van die punten:

Trump
wil absolute macht vanwege de Coronacrisis, anders gezegd: Trump
misbruikt de Coronacrisis om zich macht toe te eigenen die een
president alleen tijdens een wereldoorlog heeft….. Het congres is
voor het grootste deel ‘in handen’ van de Democraten en als zijn wil
tot absolute macht werkelijkheid zou worden , zal het congres buiten
werking worden gesteld…..

Dagelijks ‘trakteert’ Trump het volk op een briefing over de stand van zaken rond
de Coronacrisis en ook deze briefings misbruikt hij voor zijn
verkiezingscampagne…… Hoe bedoelt u, manipulatie van de
verkiezingen??

Het schrijven hieronder wordt elke week aangepast met de nieuwste blunders van Trump, onderaan in het schrijven vindt je een link naar het bericht van vorige week, zie daarvoor de volgende link You
can find last week’s post here en in dat bericht kan je teruggaan naar de week daarvoor enz. enz.

Trump has made 356 false claims related to the coronavirus

Trump
During COVID-19 [PFAW Update]

45’sFalshoods and Failures: Weekly Coverage of Trump During COVID-19

During another week in
which Americans across the country struggled for their lives and
livelihoods, Donald Trump frittered away valuable time by obsessing
over his image and the pandemic’s effect on his reelection
prospects. When
the country is most in need of a unifier-in-chief, Trump continues to
sow discord and mine conflict whenever and wherever he deems it to be
in his favor.

The Trump White House
and its Republican allies seem determined
to undermine subject matter experts at every turn, creating an
intellectual vacuum that Trump attempts to fill with his political
agenda rather than data and facts. The stories we’ve collected this
week illustrate all this and create a stark picture of a president
who is incapable of reining in his own temperament in order to do
what’s best for this country and its people.

One
of Trump’s newest attempts to distract from his poor leadership
during the novel coronavirus epidemic is to threaten, in his words,
to exercise
his “constitutional
authority to adjourn both chambers of Congress”
in order to push through judicial and executive branch appointments
without Congressional approval. In
addition to being a flagrant attempt to pack vital positions with
Trumpist allies during a nationwide health emergency, this newest
announcement is a
fundamental challenge
to the separation of powers – and is
supported neither by the Constitution nor by legal precedent.
This
is far from the first time during this public health crisis that
Trump has taken advantage of the nation’s turmoil to further
special interests that he considers either important to his allies
or to his campaign. Back
in March, Trump tried to argue at a rally that the
border wall with Mexico could have prevented the coronavirus, a
claim for which there is no
scientific evidence.
This week, Trump took steps to weaken a
rule forcing coal-fueled power plants to curtail their mercury
emissions. The
rule is a vital environmental protection that energy companies have
been complaining about for years – and Trump is using this moment
to make good on a pledge to these energy companies when he assumes
few others are looking.
Additionally, Trump
has rejected an increase in air quality regulation standards,
despite the mounting evidence that high
levels of air pollution puts people at a higher risk for
coronavirus.
Even
though each one of Trump’s daily coronavirus briefings is a
publicity stunt, the briefing that took place on Monday was a
particularly clear example of why networks
are considering limiting or cutting their airing of these
spectacles. Trump
used this two-and-a-half-hour
press conference as a venue to list grievances against critics
and to tout
his own propaganda, including airing a bizarre anti-media
campaign video.
Trump’s
spat with state leaders continued unabated this week, with
disagreements ranging from how to address election security to the
amount of testing needed before beginning to even consider
reopening the economy. Governors nationwide, including
Republicans, have begun vocally
supporting expanding vote-by-mail initiatives and support structures
in advance of the general election, a safety measure that Trump
continues to denigrate. Then,
after two regional groups of governors announced that they were
starting to create plans for eventually easing coronavirus-related
restrictions, Trump
claimed that his “authority is total” with regard to
deciding when, how, and if the restrictions should be eased.
A number of his usual Republican allies (including Sen. Marco Rubio
and Rep. Liz Cheney) sharply
criticized him for that comment. Later, Trump walked back his
position, saying that governors would “call
[their] own shots” on plans to reopen.
Relatedly,
Trump’s growing insistence that he will be “reopening the
country” on May 1 has resulted in the White
House strategizing to find ways to shift blame from the president if
and when greater numbers of people die because social distancing
initiatives are lifted too soon.
The strategy, according
to reports, includes attempting to enlist prominent business
leaders and other authorities in support of reopening, so any
responsibility for negative consequences is widely shared.
One
focus of Trump’s complaints this month has been the World Health
Organization, and this week he made good on last
week’s threat to revoke
W.H.O.’s funding. Although he
praised W.H.O. in February, the organization of health experts
has become one of Trump’s favorite scapegoats as he has sought to
diffuse blame for his bad leadership during the epidemic.
Although
the GOP is still united behind trying to retain power through
Trump’s reelection in November, fractures
are starting to show between party members over coronavirus
responses. Republican
governors and members
of Congress are beginning to outwardly disagree with Trump’s
calls to reopen the country at the start of next month, with even
Trump’s staunchest ally, Speaker Mitch McConnell, flatly
contradicting Trump’s recent statement about his being able to
adjourn Congress.
Trump’s
normally reliable allies in the business community have begun to
push back against his recent actions, particularly his moves towards
prematurely opening the economy.
On a call designed to curry favor with and establish his alliance
with business leaders, Trump
received significant skepticism and pushback for his overly
aggressive timeline, making it seem unlikely that they will back
him should he go forward with removing federal social distancing
guidelines by May 1.
In
an especially self-serving move that wasted valuable time in getting
relief to millions, Trump made a deal with Treasury Secretary Steven
Mnuchin to have his
name printed on the coronavirus stimulus checks being sent to
Americans, despite the fact that the president can’t be an
official signer on Treasury Department checks. The
Internal Revenue Service team in charge of dispensing the checks has
had to race to print Trump’s name on the memo line, so Trump can
use relief allocated by Congress as a campaign tool.
To conclude this
week’s list, we’re going to leave you with the fact that since
the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States on January
20 through April 3, Trump
has made 356 false claims related to the coronavirus.
And in the two weeks since that date, which was also the date of
this
series’ first post, that number has only continued to grow.
The limited actions Trump has actually taken to address the
coronavirus crisis have been too
few, too late; a new report suggests that had the U.S. acted to
increase testing capacity nationwide two weeks earlier than he did,
COVID-19
deaths could have been reduced tenfold.

Sen. Lindsey Graham
recently told Trump that this November, “your
opponent is no longer Joe Biden – it’s this virus.”
However,
pandemics are not political opponents and they don’t respond to
bullying, lying, or misdirection.
Trump can’t beat the coronavirus into submission, and while he
tries to do so, he’s forcing millions of Americans to suffer far
greater harm.

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The Falsehoods
and Failures
series
will appear every Friday on our blog. You
can find last week’s post here. For ongoing coverage of Trump and
the Right Wing’s response to the coronavirus, check out PFAW’s Right
Wing Watch.