This Is What It Looks Like: Trump Leverages Fight Against COVID For His Reelection | Talking Points Memo

This summer, President Trump discovered a new tool to conscript into his fight to win re-election: the country’s war against COVID-19. Trump has embarked on an unprecedented campaign to use the infrastructure the country has developed to fight the virus in service of own re-election.


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What could possibly go wrong with 1) undercounting cases of infection and 2) rushing an untested vaccine to the public? The Trumpster fire is getting bigger and hotter.

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This is a Genocidal Maniac. Who should be arrested, charged and tried.

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In the meantime, there’s a real solution just waiting to be rolled out, but it’s actually being held up by the Trump administration:

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Trump will do anything to win reelection including rushing a vaccine before the trials are complete. Trump is not a scientist. He is a con man.

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If he rushes the vaccine, I volunteer Ivanka to take it first. Live. Must see TV.

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. . . and a murderer.

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As if the anti-vaxxers weren’t trouble enough.

Trump, his family and enablers, really make me wish I believed in Hell so I could imagine them all burning there forever.

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OT Speaking of the FDA this person must’ve been a real,from the Urban Dictionary " She’s just a bi-atch"

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Didn’t last very long. Not even long enough to announce the miracle cure vaccine.

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She had worked as a reporter for OANN.

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Why can’t WE sue for Presidential malpractice???

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So you’re saying she wasn’t a journalist or a spokeswoman.

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If he rushes the vaccine, I volunteer Ivanka to take it first. Live. Must see TV.
Given by Dr Fauci .Only way I would believe it

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And how can 45 have any credibility pushing this vaccine when he’s an anti-vaxxer? He’s a hero to that group.

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How many scaramucci’s was that?
Or are we at one and a fraction?

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I don’t think it is going to work. He famously refused to take responsibility and he has lived up to that refusal for months.

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This response by Trump is right out of the Carl Rove textbook, where he advised candidates to find their weakest vulnerabilities and propagandize them into strengths.

Trump is sufficiently incompetent and undisciplined he might just flub the attempt, but it is pretty clear he’s being advised by someone who is more competent than Jared.

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