{"id":98308,"date":"2020-04-14T16:30:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T20:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=98308"},"modified":"2020-04-14T16:30:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T20:30:35","slug":"president-trump-accused-of-not-acting-fast-on-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=98308","title":{"rendered":"President Trump Accused of Not Acting Fast on the Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8230;But the mainstream media didn&#8217;t initially take this virus seriously.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-97647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/trump1-3-349x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/trump1-3-349x333.jpg 349w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/trump1-3-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/trump1-3.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many on the left are accusing President Trump of &#8220;not acting on time&#8221; or of &#8220;not taking this seriously in the beginning.&#8221; They&#8217;re trying to pin the coronavirus deaths and disruptions on the President&#8217;s &#8220;bad&#8221; judgment.<\/p>\n<p>However, many, including journalists and politicians, didn&#8217;t initially take the coronavirus seriously. When the President took action to mitigate this threat, they verbally attacked him.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">To counter leftist propaganda, President Trump played a video during one of his coronavirus briefings. The transcripts come first before the video.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Statement:<\/strong> The Media minimized the risk from the start.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media segment:<\/strong> People should be more concerned right now with the flu in this country&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doctor John Torres:<\/strong> A lot of people are concerned with the coronavirus because they&#8217;re hearing a lot of news about it right now; but the reality is comparing it to the flu for example, it is not even close to being at this stage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hannity:<\/strong> What if it is worse? Is this some moment where maybe countries put politics aside, a little bit of pride aside, and do we have US officials, should US professional such as yourself get involved?<\/p>\n<p><strong>CBS This Morning:<\/strong> How worried should Americans be about coronavirus?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Response:<\/strong> Coronavirus is not going to cause a major issue in the United States&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Statement:<\/strong> While President Trump took decisive action&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Screen roll:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>January 7: CDC establishes COVID-19 response system to track cases in the US.<\/li>\n<li>January 20: First reported case of COVID-19 in the US.<\/li>\n<li>January 31:\u00a0 President Trump announces travel restrictions from China.<\/li>\n<li>February 6: CDC ships first testing kits.<\/li>\n<li>March 2:\u00a0 Pharmaceutical companies begin developing vaccine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>President Trump:<\/strong> What we&#8217;ve asked them to accelerate whatever they&#8217;re doing in terms of a vaccine.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>March 11: President Trump announces travel restrictions from Europe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>President Trump:<\/strong> We will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>March 13: President Trump declares a national emergency.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>President Trump:<\/strong> To unleash the full power of the federal government in this effort today I am officially declaring a national emergency.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>March 17: President Trump orders free telehealth screenings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>President Trump:<\/strong> Medicare patients can now visit any doctor by phone or video conference at no additional costs&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>March 18: Department of Defense surges 1 million masks to hospitals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> The first one million masks will be available immediately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video Statement:<\/strong> Even as partisans sniped and criticized&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maggie Habberman.<\/strong> New York Times 3\/25\/20:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;As there were more cases, and it was clear that it was spreading out of China, where it originated&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;The President took this move that he was widely criticized for, by Democrats and even some Republicans at the time, which was he halted a number of flights from China into the US&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;The idea was to halt the spread of the disease. Keep transmissions to a minimum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;He was accused of xenophobia. (Joe Biden 3\/12\/20)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;He was accused of making a racist move. (The Hill 1\/31\/20)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;At the end of the day, it was probably effective, because it did actually take a pretty aggressive measure against the spread of the virus.&#8221;<\/span> &#8212; Maggie Habberman, New York Times, 3\/25\/20<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video statement:<\/strong> Bipartisan governors recognize the president&#8217;s support.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Governor Cuomo:<\/strong> His (President Trump) team is on it. They&#8217;ve been responsive, late at night, early in the morning, uh, and they&#8217;ve uh thus far been doing everything that they can do, and I want to say thank you. And I want to say that I appreciate it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Governor Newsom:<\/strong> He returns calls, he reaches out, uh, he&#8217;s been proactive, uh we got that Mercy ship down here, in Los Angeles, that was directly because he sent it down here. Two thousand uh medical uh units came to this State of California, these FMS, these, these field medical stations, uh and that&#8217;s been very very helpful&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Governor Ron Desantis:<\/strong> What the president has been ah, ah, outstanding, ah, through all this, the vice president has been outstanding, members of the coronavirus task force very responsive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Governor Phil Murphy:<\/strong> We had asked if we could have New Jersey could have access to a, piece of the beds that are on the USNS Comfort and the President came back, called me a short, few minutes before I walked in here to say indeed they would grant that to New Jersey. So that&#8217;s a big step for us in addition to all the other capacity. That news is really hot of the press and I thank the president and vice president who were on the call together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Governor Doug Ducey:<\/strong> President Trump approved Arizona&#8217;s request for presidential major disaster declaration. I want to thank the president for a quick turnaround. We requested this on a Wednesday and we had approval by Saturday morning. And we are grateful to the administration for their continued support and responsiveness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interview segment:<\/strong> Well first of all, I want to thank, uh, the president and the vice president for doing a really good job of communicating with all the governors.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The Media Minimized the Risk From the Start, by YouTube channel Freedom News:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oaHAoBqYzhs\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;But the mainstream media didn&#8217;t initially take this virus seriously. 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