Proof that only a single item can occupy Trump's mind at any one time. Trump says impeachment wasted his time on coronavirus At Tuesday’s coronavirus press conference, in a confused rant, President Donald Trump echoed the emerging GOP talking point that impeachment may have distracted him from addressing coronavirus sooner — but then contradicted himself by suggesting his response was excellent and he wouldn’t have done anything different if he hadn’t been impeached. ''They probably illegally impeached me, in the sense that if you look at the FBI today with what happened, the horrible — nobody cares about that anymore because all they’re thinking about is the virus,” said Trump. “That’s okay with me. You look at the reports that came out, it’s disgraceful what went on. it’s a total disgrace. They got caught in the act but you know what? We won’t talk about that now.'' Did it divert my attention?” Trump went on. “I think I’m getting A-pluses for the way I handled myself during the phony impeachment, okay. It was a hoax, but certainly I guess I thought of it, and I think I probably acted — I don’t think I would have done any better had I not been impeached.” The impeachment trial took place a full month before the president took any substantive action on the coronavirus pandemic, and for weeks in between he suggested the virus was being exaggerated as part of the Democrats’ “new hoax” and it would go away quickly on its own.
EDITORIAL A president unfit for a pandemic Much of the suffering and death coming was preventable. The president has blood on his hands. By The Editorial Board https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/03/30/opinion/president-unfit-pandemic/
reporter: what about people without health insurance? Trump: Mike, you want this one? Pence: (speaks for 5 minutes about the strength of the American people) Trump: that was the best answer i've ever heard. you completely ignored his question this is our government during the worst crisis in a century.
Trump has repeatedly assured Americans that the federal government is holding 10,000 ventilators in reserve to ship to the hardest-hit hospitals around the nation as they struggle to keep the most critically ill patients alive,” the New York Times reports. “But what federal officials have neglected to mention is that an additional 2,109 lifesaving devices are unavailable after the contract to maintain the government’s stockpile lapsed late last summer, and a contracting dispute meant that a new firm did not begin its work until late January. By then, the coronavirus crisis was already underway.”
“A little-known Washington nonprofit has filed a lawsuit against Fox News, claiming the news station, its parent companies and owners violated the state’s Consumer Protection Act and acted in bad faith by disseminating false information about the novel coronavirus through its television news broadcasts and minimized the danger posed by the virus as COVID-19 began to explode into a pandemic,” Seattle Times reports.