Trump campaign officials on Sunday defended the President’s intentional public downplaying of COVID-19 early this year, which journalist Bob Woodward revealed in his forthcoming book.
I know this is not productive talk, but Steve Cortes looks like a guy who should be saying, “What’s it going to take to put you in this car today?” And Jason Miller just looks stupid.
“Fog of war,” eh? Sure. Like that time U.S. Grant saw Lee’s troops attacking, and got confused by the “fog of war,” thinking he wasn’t the commanding general but a cook at the field kitchen five miles from the front.
Or that time after Pearl Harbor when FDR, understandably confused by the “fog of war,” just forgot to mobilize the armed forces, institute a draft, impose rationing, etc. It was that darned “fog of war” that led FDR to make the famous statement that the Japanese Navy would just “disappear, like a miracle.”
Idiot Republican flaks refuse to see how other smarter national leaders calmly informed their populace and took honest steps forward. They are trying to put lipstick on this pig that won’t hunt. Typical GOP deceit.
I would have believed fog of dementia, but as far as “fog of war” goes, it’s risible. What fog? He was told from the beginning it was serious, deadly, and a threat to Americans. And he responded by call it a “Democratic hoax”.
I asked scholars of Winston Churchill about Trump’s claim that concealing the danger of the coronavirus, to keep people “calm,” was like what Churchill did during the war. There was a lot of scoffing.