This article provides a good overview of what is going wrong in his response to covid-19.
High points: (1) Budget decisions combined with a dysfunctional and politicized appointment process that have left relevant agencies understaffed or staffed by the wrong people; (2) Appointing Pence as de facto Coronavirus czar rather than someone with proven background and expertise in public health issues; (3) Public comments blaming Democrats and continuing to hold suspiciously-timed campaign rallies in Democratic primary states (in this case, South Carolina), per usual
Typical Trumpian stuff
At his rally I mentioned above, Trump actually called the Coronavirus Democrats' "new hoax” and compared it to other things Dems have done throughout his first term allegedly for the sole purpose of making himself look bad
Actually he called the politicization and lies a hoax,even your first sources citation shows the claim is false while lying about what Trump said, https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/02/29/fact-check-did-trump-call-the-coronavirus-a-hoax-at-his-south-carolina-rally/
Budgets where increased https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-cut-cdcs-budget-democrats-claim-analysis/story?id=69233170
It was the cdc Ebola response team that was fired, and a new team for the new threat was created in January so the understaffed is a lie. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-diversity-obama/index.html
Basically you have a biased opinion piece that told you lies you wanted to hear and your second source politico knows better than to not check the facts before spreading fake news.
1. "Budgets where increased https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-cut-cdcs-budget-democrats-claim-analysis/story?id=69233170"
--LOL only to the extent Congress overrode Trump's proposed budget cuts to the CDC.
2. "It was the cdc Ebola response team that was fired, and a new team for the new threat was created in January so the understaffed is a lie. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-diversity-obama/index.html"
--The article you quote discusses diversity (or the lack thereof) in this newly-created Coronavirus task force; it does not offer any opinion about systemic understaffing vs. overstaffing at the CDC agency level (the point I made), so it does not support your proposition.
--No defense from you of the increased politicization of the appointment process, Trump's post-impeachment purges, and Trump's growing insistence on loyalty as the main job criteria for appointees.
3. "Actually he called the politicization and lies a hoax,even your first sources citation shows the claim is false while lying about what Trump said, https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/02/29/fact-check-did-trump-call-the-coronavirus-a-hoax-at-his-south-carolina-rally/"
--From the Politico piece, here's a fuller quote from Trump's Feb. 28 SC rally:
--“The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. They're politicizing it,” he said. “They don't have any clue. They can't even count their votes in Iowa. No, they can't. They can't count their votes. One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.’ That did not work out too well. They could not do it. They tried the impeachment hoax.”
--Then Trump called the coronavirus “their new hoax.” ["this is their new hoax"]
So: I'm not lying about what he said. These are his words. He said the word "hoax" and equated the Coronavirus to Russiagate and Ukrainegate. So spin that however you want to, but I am quoting him accurately.
If all that is not "politicizing" the coronavirus, then I don't know what is.
The President needs to grow up, do his job, and stop acting like any criticism sent his way is politically motivated.
1). In other words your source lied about the facts and your covering for them rather than admit it.
2). Another prove me wrong statement. The Ebola response force was disbanded and new we have a new response team, meaning the basics behind the complaint about the disbanded team are wrong. The rest go into opinion territory by a source that has lied more than once.
3). https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/02/29/fact-check-did-trump-call-the-coronavirus-a-hoax-at-his-south-carolina-rally/
Ignoring the citation showing the original context was removed and a new one added to change the meaning of was was said and showing your source is therefore wrong doesn't make it go away. And I said the claim was a lie, not that you lied. You are just wrong because you allowed someone else to tell you want to think instead of looking at the facts yourself.
