![]() Is it better to be president when a novel virus comes to our shores that we know nothing about and have no vaccines for? Or to be president nearly a year later, when vaccines have come online and we know more? If Donald Trump had won a second term, surely there would be more Democratic suspicion about the vaccines than there is now. When comparing Trump and Biden, though, it’s important to remember that for almost all of 2020, there were no vaccines at all. It’s made the pandemic worse that 15% of adults haven’t gotten even one shot. On the other side of the ledger, Trump helped develop the vaccines, a world-historic event.Ī Democratic defense of Biden is that his response to the virus has been sabotaged by the refusal of many Republicans to get vaccinated. Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Imagesīut none of this produced mass death, unless you believe we could have tested and traced the virus into oblivion at the start, which seems unlikely given the scale of the outbreaks here. Donald Trump helped develop the vaccines, a world-historic event. There are legitimate criticisms of Trump on COVID-19, from the initial testing snafu to his repeated overpromising about when the virus would disappear to his hostility to masks when they were a better option than lockdowns. “Cases and deaths will remain far too high.” “If this president is reelected, we know what will happen,” Biden said of Trump at the Democratic convention. That line from Biden in the debate, by the way, wasn’t a one-off it was one of his main themes. Indeed, if you simply look at the progression of cases and deaths in the United States over time, you’d have no idea that a new president took office in January 2021. Why, then, does Biden get to stay in office? Tragically, more people died of the coronavirus in 2021 than in 2020. MSNBC host Chris Hayes a couple of months ago called for a truth-and-reconciliation-commission-type inquiry into how the former president “willfully got hundreds of thousands of people killed.” Willfully!ĭuring one of the 2020 presidential debates, Joe Biden said of Trump, “Anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of America.” ![]() ![]() It has been said, over and over, that Trump almost single-handedly killed Americans. The fullness of time and now the Omicron wave have made it obvious how preposterous the chief lines of criticism against Donald Trump were during the pandemic. Trump's enemies pursue more and more indictments - to ensure his 2024 nominationĪmerica’s woke military is leaving us dangerously unpreparedīiden's next stumble could sideline him - putting Harris in charge Joe Biden is Donald Trump’s best (political) friend The fear factor is driving Trump's dominance of the GOP field ![]()
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