If this was a political hatchet job, Trump fell for it hook-line-and-sinker. He even brags about shutting down the country before anybody wanted him too. The Dems didn't shut down travel with China and Europe, Trump did. Trump even called out the Republican Governor of Georgia just last night for trying to open up his state.
The governor’s decision drew a backlash from critics who pointed to indicators that the state’s number of new cases was still on an upward trajectory.
www.politico.com
And here's a timeline of Trump's positions. It's not quite the Gettysburg Address, but...
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”We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.
We’re going to be pretty soon at only five people. And we could be at just one or two people over the next short period of time. So we’ve had very good luck.” - February 26
“It’s going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.” - February 27
"What a problem. Came out of nowhere." - March 6
“I’ve always known this is a real—this is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic." - March 17.
"I would view it as is something that just surprised the whole world. And if people would have known about it, it could have stopped — stopped being in place. Nobody knew there'd be a pandemic or an epidemic of this proportion. Nobody had ever seen anything like this before." - March 19
"Nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could have happened." - March 26
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"If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare. And one day many lives could be needlessly lost because we failed to act today." - George W. Bush, November 2005