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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4440915" data-attributes="member: 54375"><p><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/trump-coronavirus-bush-911-excuses.html" target="_blank">We’ve Heard Trump’s Coronavirus Excuses Before</a>:</p><p></p><p>via the link; </p><p>"Some of Trump’s criticisms were <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/oct/21/donald-trump/trump-says-cia-warned-president-bush-9-11-attacks/" target="_blank">unfair to Bush</a>. But what’s striking now, as the coronavirus kills <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/coronavirus-deaths-united-states-each-day-2020-n1177936" target="_blank">more than 1,000 Americans every day</a>, is that these criticisms also apply to Trump. He blames the viral death toll on <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-conference-3/" target="_blank">everyone but himself</a>—<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/31/everyone-everything-trump-has-blamed-his-coronavirus-response/" target="_blank">China, governors, past presidents</a>—but he sits at the desk where the buck stops. Like Bush, Trump had <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intelligence-reports-from-january-and-february-warned-about-a-likely-pandemic/2020/03/20/299d8cda-6ad5-11ea-b5f1-a5a804158597_story.html" target="_blank">multiple intelligence signals</a> of the disaster ahead. Like Bush, he was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/" target="_blank">specifically warned in the President’s Daily Brief</a>. The warnings to Trump were far clearer than the warnings to Bush, because the coronavirus pandemic, unlike the 9/11 plot, unfolded for months in the open. Bush was told about something vague that could happen; Trump was told <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/trump-coronavirus-response-9-11.html" target="_blank">what was already happening</a>. And although Trump had been president for three years—unlike Bush, who faced 9/11 after just eight months in office—coordination among federal agencies against the virus has been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/face-masks-coronavirus.html" target="_blank">a</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/testing-coronavirus-pandemic.html" target="_blank">fiasco</a>."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4440915, member: 54375"] [URL='https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/trump-coronavirus-bush-911-excuses.html']We’ve Heard Trump’s Coronavirus Excuses Before[/URL]: via the link; "Some of Trump’s criticisms were [URL='https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2015/oct/21/donald-trump/trump-says-cia-warned-president-bush-9-11-attacks/']unfair to Bush[/URL]. But what’s striking now, as the coronavirus kills [URL='https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/coronavirus-deaths-united-states-each-day-2020-n1177936']more than 1,000 Americans every day[/URL], is that these criticisms also apply to Trump. He blames the viral death toll on [URL='https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-conference-3/']everyone but himself[/URL]—[URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/31/everyone-everything-trump-has-blamed-his-coronavirus-response/']China, governors, past presidents[/URL]—but he sits at the desk where the buck stops. Like Bush, Trump had [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intelligence-reports-from-january-and-february-warned-about-a-likely-pandemic/2020/03/20/299d8cda-6ad5-11ea-b5f1-a5a804158597_story.html']multiple intelligence signals[/URL] of the disaster ahead. Like Bush, he was [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/']specifically warned in the President’s Daily Brief[/URL]. The warnings to Trump were far clearer than the warnings to Bush, because the coronavirus pandemic, unlike the 9/11 plot, unfolded for months in the open. Bush was told about something vague that could happen; Trump was told [URL='https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/03/trump-coronavirus-response-9-11.html']what was already happening[/URL]. And although Trump had been president for three years—unlike Bush, who faced 9/11 after just eight months in office—coordination among federal agencies against the virus has been [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/article/face-masks-coronavirus.html']a[/URL] [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/testing-coronavirus-pandemic.html']fiasco[/URL]." [/QUOTE]
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