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Aside from mass deaths, there’s no reason to return to four years ago.
Trump committed second-degree murder with handling of coronavirus
“He essentially hamstrung the CDC and prevented it, prevented them from doing what it was designed to do, which was to protect the American people from things like COVID-19,” Mary Trump said on “The Mary Trump Show.” “Which resulted in the unnecessary deaths, and therefore purposeful deaths, of hundreds of thousands of Americans.”
“That alone should have landed the former, whatever the fuck we want to call him, the mass murderer criminal Donald Trump in prison,” she added. “And yet I don’t I don’t see anything being made of that.”
The Trump administration underplayed concerns about the seriousness of the pandemic and compromised public health guidance to advance the president’s political goals, the report concluded.
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“Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” Rep. Elise Stefanik asked during a news conference last week. She answered her own question by saying “the answer is a resounding no.” Lara Trump, the new co-chair of the Republican National Committee, said virtually the same thing to Sean Hannity on Tuesday. South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott echoed that sentiment on Fox News as well, saying, “We have to go back to that future, 2017-2020. We want those four years one more time.”
The “better off” question become part of our political lexicon after Ronald Reagan posed it to Jimmy Carter during their sole 1980 presidential debate. It was effective for Reagan because Carter’s presidency ended in the middle of a severe recession and a second year of double-digit inflation. Most people in 1980 had in fact been at least somewhat better off before Carter’s presidency.
Today, though, to argue as Republicans are that most people are not better off than they were four years ago requires a bizarre form of political, social, and economic amnesia. Four years ago, in March 2020, the covid pandemic was rampaging across the world and country as the president desperately tried to wish it away. People were getting sick, many were dying, and the economy was shutting down as a result. It’s not a time to look back on with nostalgia.
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GREG KELLY: Two more quick things. I want to respect your time.
In 2016, you did the opposite of what the political professionals would recommend almost every turn, and you won. And that’s amazing. That’s a testament to you.
But is there such a thing as overconfidence? I mean, you’ve been right a lot, but nobody’s right all the time. Is there such a thing as overconfidence? Are you at this point tough to advise or–. I know you got great advisors, but have you, did you learn some negative lessons by being right when they were wrong? And you might think, well, I’m always right. They must always be wrong.
DONALD TRUMP: Well, they do have a hat! And I don’t produce it. Somebody else — “Trump was right about everything!”.
I mean, if you look at all of these many, many things, I’ve been right about everything. I’ve been right about immigration.
GREG KELLY: But the little things, tactics and things like that.
DONALD TRUMP: Look, I listen to a lot of very smart people. I listen to people that aren’t so smart. You find out they’re not smart later on. Look, I’ve had people that are great working for me, but I’ve also had people where it was a mistake having them.
One of the things and I say this, very, very strongly, I believe it very strongly. I came to Washington. I wasn’t like in the Washington establishment, it’s an establishment. I was a New York person, and I didn’t come here much.
I was here, they say, the press says 17 times. I didn’t know people like, normally you would. And I put great people in, but I also put people that I made a mistake with.
I made a mistake with some people I put in. Obviously it wasn’t a grave mistake because we had no wars. I got out of wars, I rebuilt the military, we defeated ISIS, you know, all the different things we did, the lowest taxes ever. We got the biggest tax cuts ever or the biggest regulation cuts ever.
But nevertheless, I now know people. I now know, I believe Washington probably at the upper levels better than anybody. And I think I’m going to have some unbelievable people. And I have unbelievable people that want to be with us.
I have, you know, as per the first part of the interview, tremendous people, some of the most talented people, they want to come into this administration. So we’ll see what happens.
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