Sometimes the press misses it. Sometimes they lose the narrative. In the midst of all the news coming out these days, charges against the Atlanta police officers, the release of John Bolton’s book, the SCOTUS decisions on LGBT rights and DACA, it can be hard to keep track.
But yesterday Democratic presumptive nominee Joe Biden gave a barnburner of a speech which I watched live broadcast on CNN, but wasn’t mentioned or noted again during the entire rest of the day.
It deserves to be noted, it deserves to be heard.
Biden attacked Trump’s response to Covid-19 directly and forcefully.
An impassioned former Vice President Joe Biden hammered the president’s coronavirus response in a speech Wednesday, lambasting Donald Trump’s recent remarks suggesting that cases would go down if the country stopped testing.
“It’s a statement that’s not only absurd, it’s absolutely tragic,” said Biden in a speech in Pennsylvania to a crowd of about 20 local residents.
“For weeks in January and February, I was raising my concerns about how we need to take this virus seriously all the while Trump was ignoring the reporting from his own intelligence community in his daily briefings and the warnings of his closest advisers,” added Biden.
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“Thanks to Donald Trump’s bungling we may lose some of the progress we’ve begun to make, all because he’s lost interest. He’s once again ignoring the facts,” Biden charged. “Public health response is still woefully, woefully lacking from this administration.”
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Trump is “so eager to get back in his campaign rallies that he’ll put people at risk in violation of CDC guidelines that still warn against large gatherings,” Biden said. “Donald Trump’s failure to fight the coronavirus with the same energy and focus that he uses to troll his enemies on Twitter has cost us lives — and is putting hope for an economic recovery at risk."
His voice should be heard.