Governors across the nation tore into President Trump’s assertion that the federal government is a “backup” for states’ procurement of needed medical supplies amid surging COVID-19 cases, during Sunday morning interviews.
Trump is familiar with backups:
Barr
McConnell
Roberts
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Thank you, governors. We know that for the sake of your residents you can’t say everything you might, but we hear you clearly, especially when you speak for those who died unnecessarily and those who will. The cowards who let this happen will pay.
“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived and dishonest–but the myth–persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." – John F. Kennedy, Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11,1962
Hutchinson: “Whether it should or shouldn’t, that is the way it is right now.”
Falling in line with the Boss, regardless of its effect on killing his constituents.
From reading each governor comments, I ask you to predict which state will get more aid and ventilators. Just guess.
This is all beyond comprehension and I think we have ourselves to blame for letting this horrible alien get away with 3+ years of crap and now this. This is the worst time most of us have ever seen. We weren’t here for Pearl Harbor or the Great Depression and this is the same as those huge devastating events.
If there was ever a time for a revolution in this country, it’s now, but I know it won’t happen. We are at our wits end with this corrupt idiot that’s killing people, yet we just plod along waiting for the election, waiting for something to change or for him to die in office. Wonder if none of this comes to fruition, then what? We wait.
“To say ‘we’re a backup’ — I mean, the Surgeon General alluded to Pearl Harbor. Can you imagine if Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: ‘I’ll be right behind you, Connecticut. Good luck building those battleships…”
Gov Jay Inslee captures the Trump do-nothing-but-grift maladministration in a nutshell.
And their payment will be fat chairman gigs in the defense and fossil fuel industry.
Trump’s just treating the states like his reality show contestants.
The Southern accent, which I otherwise love as I do all accents and local variants of English, is associated with a lot of backward thinking.
Rather than provide the leadership of a war time President, he continues to blame everyone else for his own inertia. He played golf and had rallies while ignoring the briefings and peril about to be unleashed on our country. He is weak and his enablers know it. He needs to be gone.
“And that’s precisely why I think we all have to do our jobs. We’re not one another’s enemy.”
Whitmer said that combating the spread of COVID-19 involves “all hands on deck.”
She’s the best. I respect her so much and am so happy we have her during this crisis.
If you or I had done what Trump has done and continues to do, we could be charged with depraved indifference or depraved heart, causing death. It is a crime in most states.
Which Governor or Governors will have their Attorney General bring charges against Trump?
This may be his '5th Ave" moment.
Yes. That’s how he’s treated his whole presidency. And republicans sat in the audience and clapped half-heatedly or not at all, unless a mic was shoved in their faces.
We need more shoving of mics. Get these enablers on record.
She is really good. You are lucky she is the governor right now. I feel the same about Inslee.
This is what dereliction of duty looks like in practice. Trump is treating all of us as if we were share holders in one of his (failing) businesses.
And, incidentally, I’d give even odds that when the facts come out, he’s been redirecting emergency med supplies to states that supported him.
We are. Any state ruled by a dem is going to come out better.
Gov. Hutchinson should call his Senator Tom Cotton to see if Cottonwould fellate trump enough to get him a few extra ventilators. Oh, and next time Asa don’t listen to the Orange Obscenity and shut your damn state down already.
When will Republican Senators, who have kept Trump in power, say something.
“Silence isn’t always golden. Sometimes it’s just yellow.”
LOL, wut? Who’s “we”?