WH Adviser Claims ’60 Minutes’ Never Covered Pre-Trump Pandemics. Show Plays Clips Proving Him Wrong.

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro went on the offensive during a “60 Minutes” interview on Sunday night by falsely accusing the show of never covering pandemics that occurred before President Donald Trump entered office.


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Funny thing about untoward political dependency on the 24-hour news cycle . . . it causes you to “forget” stuff that happened, oh, only a couple of months ago, let alone 10 or 15 years ago . . . or, for that matter, memos you yourself wrote to your own boss.

ETA in response to the video: “Lone Star: The National Beer of Texas . . . and String Theory”

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And Mr Navarro, how would you like your crow served?

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“Nobody knew video archives even existed,” Navarro said. “The Democrats just invented these just to impeach the president. It’s not fair.”

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“Show me that episode, then you’ll have some credence in terms of attacking the Trump administration for not being prepared,” he continued.

Challenge accepted and evidence shown…

Let the attack of the Trump Regime’s INCOMPETENCE and DEADLY INTENTIONS (OK to KAG - Kill AmericanGeriatriacs - for Wallstreet$$$) commence!!!

It’s not just Trump and Navarro that needs to be held accountable for their failures…MoscowMitch is one BIGLY Enabler-In-Chief!

Remember, MoscowMitch’s Pandemic Motto (via Hugh Hewitt’s radio program)

My motto for the rest of the year is to leave no vacancy behind.”

Addendum:
Those 52 RethugniCONS let lose the deadliest virus for America!

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Hah, idiot thought it was some live interview and he could spew…
Dude, they go into edit and research mode afterwards. They were hoping for your BS.
And notice that they placed your interview after the experts, so that your lies would be flashing like strobes at a rave…

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Another trip to Gaslight Village…

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To these guys it doesn’t matter how it looks ultimately. The goal is to get by this particular moment. Let the future lies take care of themselves.

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It gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling to know that our lives are in the hands of people who do their homework and know what they are talking about.

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‘Hey, global pandemic’s coming, you gotta do X, Y, and Z, and by the way, we would shut down the entire global economy to fight it,’” Navarro told Whitaker.

So…is he saying the global economy SHOULD have been shut down during those epidemics? Or that they should have begun earlier to shut it down during this one?

It’s hard to understand someone whose head is so firmly stuck up their own ass.

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Navarro: “Ha ha! I had my fingers crossed behind my back. Neener neener!”

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Well, this is classic. Those of you with misspent youths may have seen this happen in real life, but if you care to check them out there are scores of YouTube videos that go like this: Loudmouth challenges relatively quiet, sensible guy, who puts up with it for a while and then decks the loudmouth with one punch. It’s very, very satisfying to see.

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Oh yes…a small step by another Trumpster in revising history…and using OBAMA NEVER DID IT as an excuse. This is about as common as ‘We are the best! Brightest! No one ever did…’ that these guys use to deflect.

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A tRump spokesperson lying or just not caring about truth? Never happen.

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Fucking crackpot. Jeebus.

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Oh, and Pete, they’ve stopped studies in France with the malaria drugs because it causes cardiac arrhythmias in COVID-19 patients, whose hearts are already under great stress. “What do you have to lose?” Maybe your life…

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… ends in disaster after a wayward spark ignites a faulty gas main and the entire village burns to the ground in a spectacular, all-consuming conflagration.

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trump and his cabal can lie but video lasts forever.

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Navarro got the order to lie.

Next.

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You can hear Navarro’s slurping and sucking sounds from mid-continent. Sorry Peter, but once you’ve pasted your lips to Rump’s posterior, it is nearly impossible to break the suction seal.

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