You would not think it was possible to say something more stupid than maybe we oughta try injecting people with detergent, but...
INGRAHAM: Michael Bloomberg is gonna handle the tracing, army of tracers in NY we learned today from Cuomo.
GIULIANI: That's totally ridiculous.
INGRAHAM: The army of tracers.
GIULIANI: Then we should trace everybody for cancer.
INGRAHAM: Yeah, army of tracers.
GIULIANI: We should trace everybody for cancer, and heart disease. And obesity. I mean, a lot of things kill you more than Covid-19. So, we should be traced for all those things. I mean life possesses a certain degree of risk.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was on Laura Ingraham's show on Fox News Thursday night when the subject turned to the coronavirus -- and attempts in New York to develop a contact tracing system to be able to monitor future outbreaks.
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If you need it explained to you why this was incredibly stupid, maybe you should eat a Tide pod.
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And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute — one minute — and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that.”
I'm sorry, but Ingraham's and Giuliani's remarks do not begin to compare to Trump's mindless statement, although it appears that there is a contest as to which Republican can do or say the most stupid.
There are examples of Republican leadership today.
In the face of a pandemic that has sweeped across our country, Republican Senate majority leader McConnell's statement is beyond belief.
"I would certainly be in favor of allowing states to use the bankruptcy route. It saves some cities. And there’s no good reason for it not to be available," the Republican said.
New York puts more money into the federal coffers than it takes out, while Kentucky, McConnell's state, gets more from the federal government than it contributes. N.Y. Governor Cuomo remarked “It’s your state that is living on the money that we generate. Your state is being bailed out, not my state.” The Republican still hasn't commented.
Trump's acting navy secretary, Thomas B. Modly, who relieved the commander of the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, Brett E. Crozier, for writing to his superiors, acquainting them with the conditions aboard the Roosevelt. At a cost of over $243,000 Modly then flew to Gam to tell the crew of the Roosevelt that their captain was "too naive, or too stupid, to be the commanding officer of a ship like this." A couple days later, to avoid being fired, Modly quit. Today, chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Gildaay, and James McPherson, the new acting secretary of the Navy, recommended Crozier should be reinstated to the command he lost.
“And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute — one minute — and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside, or almost a cleaning? Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it would be interesting to check that,” the Republican President said.
The Republican was not being "sarcastic" when he raised the possibility of injecting disinfectant. There was every indication that he was being candid in his remarks to the two doctors. He was also wrong when he denied he had asked the medical experts to "check" the idea of disinfectant injections (see statement); and he was looking at them at the time. And he did not mention hands during his Thursday remarks.
These are issues that have popped up just in the last two days. Serious questions are being asked about the intellectual capacity of the GOP today.
Today, Trump cancelled the press conference.
