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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew report says Jared Kushner had been been telling Trump the media was exaggerating the crisis.
In the early weeks of the outbreak Trump attempted to downplay the severity of the illness, comparing it to the common flu, describing it as a "hoax" concocted by Democrats at a campaign rally in February, and assuring Americans that the outbreak would "disappear."
He was reportedly furious about stark warnings made by health officials about the likely negative impact of the disease, and blamed them for spooking financial markets as he geared up his reelection campaign.
According to The Times, Kushner who has reportedly been playing a key role in the US response to the outbreak had been telling the president around this time that the media was exaggerating the threat posed by the virus.
Trump has repeatedly sought to blame the media for exaggerating the crisis, echoing what Kushner was reportedly telling him, and as recently as last week blamed the "fake news media" for seeking to "inflame the CoronaVirus [sic] situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant."
https://news.yahoo.com/trump-downplayed-coronavirus-threat-early-142827096.html
procon
(15,805 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)you just have to be fronting the Trump ideology/brand.
CrispyQ
(36,502 posts)Fuck every one of them. Fuck them all to fucking hell.
SWBTATTReg
(22,156 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)crickets
(25,982 posts)Under The Radar
(3,404 posts)You know he comes from good genes.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)dweller
(23,651 posts)the feeling is mutual
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Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)as the whipping boy. Take it like a man Jared he won't fire you. Might upset the Princess.
stopdiggin
(11,348 posts)president has designed. They feed him what he wants to hear .. and woe betide anyone that doesn't. So .. it's arrant nonsense to pretend like this might be something that Kushner steered or subverted. This is DJT !! From start to finish!
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)LuvLoogie
(7,021 posts)The Carona failures are trump's failures. Stupid Jared plays the scapegoat for Ivanka's Daddy.
genxlib
(5,530 posts)I can deal with stupid people and I can deal with arrogant people. But I can't deal with people who are both.
Thinking you are an expert in something you don't understand is the height of hubris.
And it will get people killed.
BusyBeingBest
(8,059 posts)in any way, so this makes sense. He and Ivanka may even have agreed to it.
C_U_L8R
(45,018 posts)...is this Greek Tragedy or Shakespearean Comedy?
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)underpants
(182,868 posts)From your other thread on this.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213116205
spanone
(135,861 posts)MarianJack
(10,237 posts)...Kushner's looks remind me of a little rodent.
RESIST!
budkin
(6,713 posts)Seriously. Watch that documentary about him on HBO.
QED
(2,749 posts)ck4829
(35,084 posts)spanone
(135,861 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)person, such as we know him to be, would routinely reject his own top experts to instead soak up the lies, fact-free notions, and conspiracy theories channeled to him by his favorite ass-whisperers. I'm sure Kushner was far from the only one telling him this.
Senator Burr has previously been extremely knowledgeable on epidemic diseease, working himself on protective measures to stop them in our nation before they break loose.
Right now it's confirmed, not that it needed to be, that Sen. Richard Burr genuinely believed a pandemic was building -- if not stopped, and he mostly downplayed it to the public while taking no genuinely appropriate action as a senator and selling off his own stock as a private citizen.
There's the fraud element of criminal insider trading, proven on national TV. But of course that's by far the least of it. He obstructed action while fully understanding that literally millions could die.
It was such a short time ago that references to Nazis were considered outrageously ignorant/dishonest. Today, we cannot escape holocaust in America from the Republican pandemic.