Many
Faces and Messages from the LinC (Liar-in-Chief)
(Well
over 16,000 lies to date: What to believe)
Updated
(March 17) – new Trump steps now (ABC News): Now he puts the blame squarely on China again casting the effort in
military terms and referring to the disease with a term that has sparked
backlash in the past – to wit:
He stated (Wednesday, March 18) at
W/H CoVID-19 working group PR briefing to the nation on how the government is
responding to the coronavirus crisis by saying: “I
would like to begin by announcing some important developments in our war
against the Chinese virus.”
And, then this: “We’ll
be invoking the *Defense Production Act (DPA – 1950) just in case we need it. In other words – I think you will know what
it is – and it can do a lot of good things if we need it, and we will have it
all completed, signing it in just a little while, right after I'm finished with
this conference. I'll be signing it.”
(NOTE: This gives him the power to direct
civilian businesses to help meet orders for products necessary for the national
defense).
*The DPA provisions are in Pub.
L. 81–774 and has been reauthorized more than
50 times since 1950. The Act contains
three major sections.
The first: Authorizes any president to require businesses to sign contracts or fulfill orders deemed
necessary for national defense.
The second: Authorizes the President to
establish mechanisms (such as regulations, orders or agencies) to allocate
materials, services and facilities to promote national defense.
The third section: Authorizes the President to control
the civilian economy so that scarce and/or critical materials necessary to the
national defense effort are available for defense needs.
The Act also authorizes
the President to:
(1) requisition property, (2) force industry to expand production and the
supply of basic resources, (3) impose wage and price controls, (4) settle
labor disputes, (5) control consumer and real estate credit, (6) establish
contractual priorities, and (7) to allocate raw materials towards national
defense.
The authority to place contracts under the DPA is the
part of the Act most often used by the DOD in the 1970s.
Most of the other functions of the Act are
administered by the Office of Strategic Industries and Economic Security (SIES)
in the Bureau of Industry and Security in the Department of Commerce.
Trump also announced: “We
are sending, upon request, two Navy hospital ships. They are being prepared
right now. They are massive ships. They’re the big white ships with the Red Cross
on the sides. One is called the Mercy
and the other is called the Comfort.
And they are in tip-top shape.”
He also said: “Today
I can announce further steps expand testing capacity. We are working with
several groups to determine if the self-swab, the much easier process than the
current process that is not very nice to do. I can tell you, because I did it.”
Finally he said: “Now
it's our time. We must sacrifice together, because we are all in this together,
and we will come through together. It's the invisible enemy. That's always the
toughest enemy. But we are going to defeat the invisible enemy. I think we are
going to do it even faster than we thought, and it'll be a complete victory.
It'll be a total victory.”
Trump then tweeted also on Wednesday
morning “That by mutual consent the U.S.
will be temporarily closing the northern border with Canada to non-essential
traffic. Trade will not be affected, as the number of U.S. cases of the novel coronavirus jumped overnight to nearly 6,000 across all 50 states and as Americans
enter the third day of a 15-day critical period meant to flatten the
curve of the virus spreading.”
WASHINGTON —
For weeks, Trump minimized the coronavirus, mocked concern about it and treated
the risk from it cavalierly. On Tuesday (March 17) he took to the White House
lectern and made a remarkable assertion: He
knew it was a pandemic all along, telling reporters: “This is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called
a pandemic.”
Ding, not true – totally false. His trails of coVID-19
lies and BS:
· On January 22, when he was asked by a CNBC reporter whether there were “worries about a
pandemic,” he replied: “No, not at all.
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.”
· On February 26, at a White House news conference, commenting on the
country’s first reported cases he said in part: “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.”
· On February 27, at a White House meeting: “It’s
going to disappear. One day — it’s like a miracle — it will disappear.”
· On March 7, standing next to President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil at
Mar-a-Lago when asked if he was concerned that the virus was spreading closer
to Washington: “No, I’m not concerned at all. No, I’m not.
No, we’ve done a great job.” (NOTE:
At least three members of the Brazilian delegation and one Trump donor at
Mar-a-Lago that weekend later tested positive for the virus.)
· On March 16, in the White House briefing room, warning that the outbreak
would “wash” away this summer he said: “So it could be right
in that period of time where it, I say, wash — it washes through. Other people
don’t like that term. But where it washes through.”
· That was part of Trump’s inching toward
a more urgent tone in recent days, but that assertion he made on Tuesday (March
17) that “he had long seen the pandemic coming” was the most abrupt pivot yet
from the voluminous number of claims and caustic remarks he has made about the
disease. On Tuesday (March 17) Trump spent much of a lengthy news conference
praising his administration’s response to the pandemic, saying the only mistake his administration made had been a
mismanagement of relationships with the news media.
· Then when asked why he had suddenly adopted a somber and realistic tone
about the virus on Tuesday (March 18), he denied that he had changed his mind
at all, saying: “No, I’ve always viewed it as very serious. There
was no difference yesterday from days before. I feel the tone is similar, but
some people said it wasn’t.”
Besides
denying the seriousness of the coronavirus over the past two months, he had
also displayed an acerbic tone toward people who took it more seriously. For
example:
February 28, at campaign rally in SC, Trump accused Democrats and the news
media of hysteria and unfairly criticizing his administration by engaging in
what he said was a political “hoax.”
Some of his
critics have stretched his comment to suggest that he was calling the virus
itself a hoax, but his supporters have argued that he was referring to the
Democratic criticism, not the virus itself.
And until
recently, he and several of his advisers had privately mocked HHS Secretary, Alex Azar II, as an alarmist. And, another
theme has been Trump’s offering inaccurate information.
February 10, at a campaign rally he suggested that the virus would be
gone by April, a claim he has frequently repeated, even though his advisers had
warned him that much about the virus was still not known.
As his
administration came under intense criticism for a lack of urgency in issuing
guidance to Americans or expediting tests for the virus, Trump himself continued
misrepresenting what was available.
On March 6 while visiting the CDE in
Atlanta: “Anybody right now and yesterday, anybody
that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. They have the tests and the tests
are beautiful.”
During that same
CDC visit, Trump praised his own “natural ability” to grasp scientific
theories, and then he likened the quality of the test to a White House
recounting to reporters and asking them about his Ukraine phone call with
Zelensky saying: “The transcription was perfect, right? This
was not as perfect as that, but pretty good.”
While his
administration struggled to form a uniform answer about testing, Trump also
made misleading claims about whether there would be a vaccine for the virus.
On February 29, he said a vaccine would
be available “very quickly and very rapidly,” as he praised his administration’s actions as “the
most aggressive taken by any country.”
His
statement about how long it would take for a vaccine to be publicly available was then on the spot corrected by Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of
the coronavirus task force, who spoke right in front of reporters and Trump,
who just stood there expressionless.
This week,
rump announced that a vaccine candidate was entering a clinical trial — only
the first phase in a lengthy process to find a preventive measure that could up
to 18 months according to medical professionals.
My 2 cents: As I have said before and again, Trump is
not responsible for this deadly virus.
However and thankfully, he is now finally taking action to
help overall, but he reacted slowly and in always in true and typically Trump.
With his flare for bragging and fluffing by others - is that only he knows the issue better than anyone else even before and after
medical experts dispute and correct him. He simply does not care or seem to be honestly
concerned as his is style as the examples above clearly show and in his own words
NOT mine or anyone else’s.
Now with a lot of action by States and Congress watch
him start taking credit for the steps they are taking without even blinking,
but sustaining his blaming when he feels like it.
In short, the man is incorrigible.
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