Trump Platformed Fauci and Shut America Down Three Years Ago This Week
Though Donald Trump and his supporters do not want to admit it, this week, three years ago, American kids were forced out of schools and into their homes. The President of the United States had chosen to give Tony Fauci a big platform and advocated shutting everything down.
On Donald Trump’s last day in office, instead of pardoning the people who’d stormed into the Capitol on January 6th, he was giving a presidential commendation to Fauci.
That’s the actual history. Here’s the video of Trump, Fauci, and Deborah Birx laughing it up as they shut down America.
When Brian Kemp decided to reopen Georgia before any other state, Trump attacked Kemp twice [UPDATE: A good friend who would know tells me it was three times — Trump attacked Kemp on a Monday, then Tuesday, then Wednesday]. Kemp ignored him, and history proved Kemp, not Trump, right.
When DeSantis reopened and told kids to go back to school, Trump publicly criticized DeSantis.
Trump’s surgeon general told people not to wear masks and then told them they needed to. Fauci insisted on it too. They did it all with Trump as President.
Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security recommended the dropboxes Democrats used on election day in 2020.
Trump shut down the economy. He signed into law the congressional plan that paid people more to be unemployed instead of staying on the payroll at companies through PPP. He did that, not Biden.
Trump pushed for “Operation Warp Speed” to develop the vaccines for COVID expeditiously, which set Biden up to do vaccine mandates.
All these things are things Trump did. His supporters blast Ron DeSantis and others for shutdowns, but they were the shutdowns Trump and Trump’s team advocated.
Trump’s supporters blast Dr. Fauci. It was Trump who put Fauci on the grand White House stage and made him available to push masks and lockdowns.
Three years ago, America started shutting down, locking down, and masking up.
Joe Biden was not President. Donald Trump was.
If Trump wants to attack his fellow Republicans, call them names, and suggest they should not have complied with federal recommendations during COVID, he needs to be held accountable for being the one who led the government that made those recommendations.
Every time Donald Trump attacks Pence or Haley or DeSantis or anyone else, remember he’s the one who got the nation to shut down, he is the one who paid people to stay unemployed, and he is the one who put Dr. Fauci on the stage.
I am the last person to stand up for Trump, and I would not be upset if we never heard his name again. These hit jobs, though, have benefit of hindsight. At the time, no one knew what we were up against.
Is Trump a clown? A horse’s posterior? Worse? Absolutely! Should he be President again or even courted as a possible suitor for the position? Hades no!
But I think he still deserves a little grace when it comes to the decisions of three years ago.
Signed,
A Never Trumper
A new book, just out a month ago: Rise of the Fourth Reich: Confronting COVID Fascism with a New Nuremberg Trial, So This Never Happens Again, by author Steve Deace and The Blaze editor Daniel Horowitz. It excoriates Trump for his part in the lockdowns. (Deace was on Kara McKinney's [GREAT] interview show on OANN, "Tipping Point," last night.]
This was one of several examples of Trump not doing his homework that afflicted the American people, conservatives in particular, and truly brought down his administration. (Enter: Marxist Joey Malarkey) His first cabinet was a disaster, economically, militarily, etc. His Attorney General pick alone cost him reelection. He warmly hugged the arm of James Comey (while I shouted at the TV set, "NO, he's the FIRST guy you've got to FIRE!!") and assured him of continued employment as FBI director. Did Trump think with Comey, Fauci and others that his own magnificence would ensure loyalty and honesty? Probably!
He doesn't take the time to study any issue, and as Deace/Horowitz say, he blundered uninformedly into costing many Americans their lives and many small businesses their futures. He's a child. We've GOT to move on from this guy.