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[PoppaJ]

“We see Donald Trump ill-prepared to be the leader of this wartime effort,” the historian began. “Yesterday the Washington Post talked about he just reached the 18,000 falsehood mark, meaning lying that many times to the American people. When you watch one of these briefings, you don’t know what to believe.”

“He’s in high scapegoat mode,” he continued. “Yesterday, it was John Kerry’s fault and Barack Obama, the World Health Organization who is trying to do work in Africa and Latin America. Money is going to be cut and the Democratic governors are no good and people are trying to take your guns away from you in Virginia. He was all over the map.”

“That wasn’t leadership that I witnessed,” he insisted. “What I saw was a president who is in re-election mode and the way he does that is to divide the country and he right now when we should be trying to heal the country.”
presidential historian Michael Beschloss

 

[PoppaJ]

BOOM!
Americans at World Health Organization transmitted real-time information about coronavirus to Trump administration

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...1c77fa-818c-11ea-9040-68981f488eed_story.html


More than a dozen U.S. researchers, physicians and public health experts, many of them from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were working full time at the Geneva headquarters of the World Health Organization as the novel coronavirus emerged late last year and transmitted real-time information about its discovery and spread in China to the Trump administration, according to U.S. and international officials.

A number of CDC staffers are regularly detailed to work at WHO in Geneva as part of a rotation that has operated for years. Senior Trump-appointed health officials also consulted regularly at the highest levels with the WHO as the crisis unfolded, the officials said.

The presence of so many U.S. officials undercuts President Trump’s charge that the WHO’s failure to communicate the extent of the threat, born of a desire to protect China, is largely responsible for the rapid spread of the virus in the United States.

 

[FdxUsmc]

BOOM!
Americans at World Health Organization transmitted real-time information about coronavirus to Trump administration

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...1c77fa-818c-11ea-9040-68981f488eed_story.html


More than a dozen U.S. researchers, physicians and public health experts, many of them from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, were working full time at the Geneva headquarters of the World Health Organization as the novel coronavirus emerged late last year and transmitted real-time information about its discovery and spread in China to the Trump administration, according to U.S. and international officials.

A number of CDC staffers are regularly detailed to work at WHO in Geneva as part of a rotation that has operated for years. Senior Trump-appointed health officials also consulted regularly at the highest levels with the WHO as the crisis unfolded, the officials said.

The presence of so many U.S. officials undercuts President Trump’s charge that the WHO’s failure to communicate the extent of the threat, born of a desire to protect China, is largely responsible for the rapid spread of the virus in the United States.

Which brings us to the WHO’s malfeasance in this affair. The WHO should have known at the outset that it was dealing with a bad-faith actor in Beijing. Yet instead of immediately insisting upon access, openness and transparency from China, WHO leadership followed the Chinese lead and at times even took the Chinese line.
The very fact that truth-seekers are left counting urns is an indictment not only of the Beijing regime, but also of the WHO. To help stem the pandemic, the WHO should have been tirelessly pressing China to tell the truth.

Far from sounding an alarm, however, the UN outfit was impassive while Beijing stonewalled international health authorities for weeks. Indeed, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised the Chinese regime for its “transparency” in the crisis. Tedros, recall, was Beijing’s candidate for WHO chief and owes his job to China’s campaign for him at the United Nations.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/china...co-conspirator-the-world-health-organization/

 

[FdxUsmc]

He didn’t shut the country down the individual states made that decision on different dates, in fact there eight states that still have no shelter in place policies.

So then the obvious question is why did the states, say N.Y. not act faster? You have made countless arguments arguing all the information was available and Trump doesn’t have the authority to do it. So why didn’t N.Y. shut down months ago.

 

[PoppaJ]

So then the obvious question is why did the states, say N.Y. not act faster? You have made countless arguments arguing all the information was available and Trump doesn’t have the authority to do it. So why didn’t N.Y. shut down months ago.

Does any state Governor have access to the level of intelligence the president has? Remember, the leader of the free world was downplaying the threat (lying) all while knowing it was more serious.

 

[PoppaJ]

Which brings us to the WHO’s malfeasance in this affair. The WHO should have known at the outset that it was dealing with a bad-faith actor in Beijing. Yet instead of immediately insisting upon access, openness and transparency from China, WHO leadership followed the Chinese lead and at times even took the Chinese line.
The very fact that truth-seekers are left counting urns is an indictment not only of the Beijing regime, but also of the WHO. To help stem the pandemic, the WHO should have been tirelessly pressing China to tell the truth.

Far from sounding an alarm, however, the UN outfit was impassive while Beijing stonewalled international health authorities for weeks. Indeed, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised the Chinese regime for its “transparency” in the crisis. Tedros, recall, was Beijing’s candidate for WHO chief and owes his job to China’s campaign for him at the United Nations.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/china...co-conspirator-the-world-health-organization/

All right I have to laugh at this. It doesn’t matter one bit what anyone else did. president* Only I Can Fix It was consciously ignoring his own people. Unless you are scapegoating or trying to CYA it doesn’t matter one bit what anyone else was doing, he knew the truth!

 

[PoppaJ]

I’m going to leave you with it for a while. This has become nothing more than a sad comedy of repetitious excuses defending the failures of a lifelong lying conman.

 

[JudgeJohn]

And you claimed the WHO said the flu was more deadly than the virus. How did that work out? Speaking of the WHO, who are you going to blame next? Give up and face it, trump is a cruel, incompetent, lying, fukup. Has been his whole life.

This is the bullsht he spewed today. The man lives in a fantasy world.

"It could have been billions of people if we had not done what we did"

Not sure Trump really knows how much a 'billion" is, given that he's not likely a "billionaire"

 

[FdxUsmc]

Trump & Russia & DNC’s Steele Dossier -- Welcome to the Real Russia Scandal | National Review

 

[JudgeJohn]

"Trump", "Russia" and "scandal," three words that go together well ... and often. Of course, "Trump" and "scandal" have often been paired with each other.