GOP governors have been holding secret conference calls to complain about Trump's COVID response

[Mike 03]

Business Insider
Actual Headline: Republican governors have been holding secret conference calls to complain about Trump's chaotic coronavirus response, report says
Tom Porter
Jul 20, 2020, 8:58 AM

A group of Republican governors have been taking part in secret conference calls where they share advice on how to deal with the coronavirus outbreak sweeping through their states, and vent about President Donald Trump's erratic response to the crisis, The New York Times reported.

The GOP governors have for months held the calls, "usually at night and without staff present," The Times reported, citing two party strategists familiar with the conversations.

The calls are described in the report as "a sort of safe space where the governors can ask their counterparts for advice, discuss best practices and, if the mood strikes them, vent about the administration and the president's erratic leadership."

In recent weeks, cracks have started to appear among Republican governors in their support for Trump's handling of the coronavirus crisis, as the rate of infections continues to climb in historically Republican states in the south and west.

Some GOP lawmakers have even publicly broken with the president to unequivocally back mask-wearing and other measures to control the spread of the virus. They include Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, one of the president's biggest supporters.

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[tanyev]

1. Profiles in Cowardice.

[uponit7771]

8. +1, they're looking for cover ... nope. Openly denounce Trump or go down in history as a coward

[Squinch]

2. That's actually worse than supporting him. Seeing, understanding the slaughter that is

happening and doing nothing about it. Because you don't want to set off a hissy.

What is wrong with these people?

[soothsayer]

3. Yeah, how about pushing back on him? Cowards

[lagomorph777]

9. So they've been agreeing to continue killing their citizens?

[fleur-de-lisa]

4. Cowards.

[fescuerescue]

5. Who are they complaining too? Each other?

Sound real productive.

[2naSalit]

6. Sniveling cowards.

[Leith]

7. chump enablers

If the rethug govs don't like the plan from the idiot-in-charge (at least publicly), then stop whining and

DO something about it!

effing morons...

[gratuitous]

10. Six months from now they'll peep out and demand recognition

They'll detail all the little ways (extremely little ways) they opposed Trump and tried to ameliorate the spread of the pandemic, the number of times they quietly (very quietly) rolled their eyes, all the little sotto voce (molto sotto) mutterings they muttered, and how they all sat in their sekrit clubhouse and bravely took Trump to task and what they were gonna say next time.

[Wednesdays]

15. Six months from now they'll peep out

and whine 24/7 about President Biden on Fox Noise and OANN!

And they never learn, do they?

[Chainfire]

11. They just want to have it both ways

They position themselves to turn their vanes in the direction the wind is blowing. There is no courage, no honor and no decency in any of the Republicans, from the President to the city councilman.

I will give them some modicum or credence when one of the yellow bastards stands up to Trump and calls his pandemic response for what it is; a massive failure of leadership leading to worst health disaster in over 100 years.

Of course after Trump is unelected, you will not find one of the Republican governors who will admit to have ever supported Trump or his failed administration.

[Bayard]

12. Well, now they're not secret!

Morans.

[Beaverhausen]

13. I'm not buying it.

Which governors are on these calls? Clearly not DeSantis or Kemp, the two worst offenders when it comes to Covid response.

[spanone]

14. the governors have the same spaghetti backbones the gop senators have

spineless

hopeless

pathetic

[Initech]

16. Hey guys, you voted for this!

You are part of the problem. You get to fix it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. They need to be more open about this