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History's verdict on Trump will be devastating
By Michael D'Antonio
Updated 6:14 PM ET, Mon March 30, 2020
"(CNN)In a crisis, all is revealed.
After a lifetime devoted to avoiding responsibility and accountability -- for his lies, his deceptions, his hype, and his cruelty -- President Donald Trump has met his match in the pandemic of 2020. His bluff and bluster are powerless as thousands of Americans die and the blame falls, in part, on his failure to heed the warnings and execute a robust national response. This occurred even though a pandemic playbook had been left behind by the Obama administration. Early in the crisis, Trump said "We have it totally under control. It's one person coming from China. It's going to be just fine." Weeks were wasted and now the price of this fiasco will likely be a loss of life far greater than 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina.
As someone who has studied Trump for years, I thought it was inevitable that he would eventually reach a moment of reckoning as president. I couldn't have imagined that it would come with the catastrophic consequences now facing the nation as Covid-19 overwhelms health care systems and brings the economy to a standstill. Trump's profound personal shortcomings -- deficiencies of his heart and mind -- helped bring us to this moment.
Ignorant as he can seem, the President seems to sense that this moment will establish his reputation in perpetuity. He said as much last week when he observed that, "the history books will never forget" America's response to the coronavirus. What he did not mention, however, is that his response to the pandemic will be examined in minute detail -- it is this prospect, the prospect of accountability, that looms over him now.
Until this crisis, Trump had avoided accountability with remarkable consistency. Born into astounding wealth, he avoided accountability by persuading creditors that he was too big to fail even after he ran businesses into the ground. In politics, he deflected accountability by blaming others, especially the press and Democrats, for problems that occurred on his watch. Recently, when asked about the dreadful federal failures on coronavirus testing, he said, bluntly, "I don't take responsibility at all."
Historians will eventually write books detailing what journalists already know about the Trump administration's dereliction of duty when the pandemic hit. America's Covid-19 death toll now passes 2,800 and the caseload exceeds 157,200 cases, But through much of the time that the number of cases was growing, the White House offered no coherent national response to the crisis.
No federal agency is rallying health care workers to move to hot spots where they are needed. Instead of assertively coordinating and distributing vital equipment, the administration is letting states, hospitals, and federal agencies compete against each other. Trump even went so far as to accuse medical workers of hoarding supplies.
Recently Trump introduced a bit of personal petulance to this dynamic, suggesting that governors who aren't sufficiently deferential should be ignored by the White House. (He leavened this remark by noting that Vice President Mike Pence is not following his lead.) Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, whom Trump singled out for criticism, reported that orders made for equipment had been canceled as suppliers favored the feds over her state.
At the epicenter of the nation's and the world's pandemic, Cuomo has been reminding us that the worst of the crisis is just beginning. The same is true for history's assessment of President Trump. The coronavirus is immune to his manipulation and spin. It is the defining challenge of his presidency and of his life. Compared with other presidential crises, like the 9/11 attacks or Hurricane Katrina, it has occurred slowly, with ample warning, giving the president many opportunities to act and, we see now, fail.
The accounting will continue. And like the pandemic, it will be devastating."
United States confirmed cases of coronavirus: 161,088
United States confirmed deaths from coronavirus: 2,968
Now look at the results for a Modern FIRST WORLD country that took the crises seriously from the start:
JAPAN confirmed cases of coronavirus: 1,866
JAPAN confirmed deaths from coronavirus: 54
I know you get excited at that thought, buuuuut,
And there are more like that of Joe Biden and others. Your leaders failed you and you could die from it, but as long as the blue team makes it you are cool. Dumb lemming.
The first video is from FEBRUARY 2, 2020. At that time there were only 11 cases of coronavirus in the UNITED STATES! There were NO cases of coronavirus in the state of New York and would not be any until MARCH 1, 2020.
The New York Health person can only advise and control what was going in New York at the time. It was TRUMP's job on February 2 to close the country off to foreign travel like Japan and Taiwan had done days earlier. But Trump never did that, and would wait until late March to finally implement travel bans and border closings that JAPAN and TAIWAN had implemented in January.
The United States now has over 3,000 dead and over 163,000 infections.
JAPAN has less than 2,000 infections and only 56 deaths despite having the oldest average population on earth and more direct contact and trade with China than the United States!
Dang. Double standard much?