Reporter tells NPR that Trump deliberately slow-walked virus testing to ease his re-election

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  1. Dispondent

    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Why would I trust the other barbarians at the gates? Trump refused to bend over to their exploitative trade practices, so they did have a poodle in the fight.

    Your other 'sources' are all over the board as to their numbers and claims, meaning someone is lying and it's not Trump...
     
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  2. PeppermintTwist

    PeppermintTwist Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I have faulted Obama on the issues where I felt he deserved criticism, but on the issue of collaboration and timely response his administration had their **** together.
     
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    Ericb760 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Let me explain this to you like you are five.

    Trump says something. It is either true or it is false.

    Journalists can, and do, compare what he says to reality.

    If it does not comport with reality, a Trump claim is considered to be a lie, as it would be with any politician, "Obummer" included.

    That these numbers are "all over the board", based in fact, and compared to Trump's actual statements, I'm not really clear how you can now claim that it is the media who is lying.

    You are engaging yourself in pretzel logic to avoid the reality that this con artist is lying to you.
     
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  4. Dispondent

    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You offer contradicting sources to include foreign interlopers and think you can argue that away with a lecture? How pathetic...
     
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  5. Ericb760

    Ericb760 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    And you seek to deny the actual words uttered by your bone spurs commander.

    Equally pathetic...
     
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    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    With this level of denigration to your debate skills you'll be at "orange man bad' in no time. On the plus side, it will save you a lot of bandwidth...
     
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  7. LogNDog

    LogNDog Well-Known Member

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    If the only proof is the word of some possibly out of context anon source yeah, I am going to question it. Anyone that doesn't either is desperate to push an agenda or they are just blatantly dishonest. Either way believing the article for face value is pathetic and petty.
     
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    Ericb760 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Still no coherent response.

    Keep it up.
     
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    3link Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Meh. I wouldn’t put it past Trump to do this but I would need to hear it from more than this one dude.
     
  10. Dispondent

    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Keep what up? You offer garbage contradictory sources. Talk about incoherent...
     
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    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    trump had three years to bring it back but Ivanka was busy having China manufacture her junk.
     
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    Give it a rest. We are far far far from the days when we had the networks and newspapers at least try to be without political agendas. When they run at a -95% anti-Trump rate, with half the population cool with the President, they are clearly out of touch and pushing propaganda. The U.S. populace has great disdain for our media, because they are so full of crap so often.
     
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    HB Surfer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    3 years to fix what the last three Presidents screwed up for 24 years prior. The whole while the Democrats, career bureaucrats, and the corrupt media are screwing with Trump's Presidency in ways never before seen in America. He's made a ton of progress considering what he has dealt with already.
     
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    That is not “liberal logic “. This thread is not based on that. It is based on a story from a credible reporter who bases it on four anonymous sources that he considers reliable. It is also consistent with Trump’s personality. There is reason to believe the story.

    Compare that with the approach of Trump supporters:
    Option 1
    1. The story is based on anonymous sources; and
    2. I don’t like what it says about Trump
    therefore it must be false.

    Option 2
    1. The story is based on anonymous sources; and
    2. I DO like what it says about Trump
    therefore it must be true.
     
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    He backs up his arguments a lot more than your approach, which is “I don’t believe foreigners if I don’t like what they say”.
     
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    Thank you for establishing that you never bothered to read the link.

    Furthermore your criminal IMPOTUS has already CORROBORATED the claim in the OP when he publicly stated that he did NOT want the cruise ship to dock because it would "increase" the number of cases here in America.

    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...trump-white-house-grand-princess-carson-adams

     
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    I hope for the best outcome for crisis.

    Minimal cases and minimal deaths (Obviously),

    That said, even if the Virus (and Panic), play themselves out, I hope Trump's Ineptitude (during that crisis) costs him the Election.
     
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    Derideo_Te Well-Known Member

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    Agreed!

    However there may be a Darwin Award winner following this Pandemic.
     
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    Most definitely...

    And, if it isn't as bad as thought, Trump will claim the credit.

    And Trump will claim that voting for the Darwin Award was rigged against him,.

    He had already made shelf space to set it next to the Nobel that he won for Ending the Korean War.

    [​IMG]
     
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    As I recall Deepthroat also provided evidence for the claims made. A lot of "anonymous" "sources" now a days don't seem to back up any of the claims made in news organizations.
     
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    He didn't want to let more people into the country without proper facilities to handle them and you attribute that to keepidn the numbers down for a political purpose. That's his job to keep the numbers down. That is just as stupid as when Biden called his travel ban "fear mongering" and "xenophobic". And then you provide Vox as a credible link to back up such a stupid theory. Really? LOLOL Now that's funny.


    Vox.com was founded in 2014 by Ezra Klein, a liberal columnist from the left-leaning Washington Post, along with Melissa Bell and Matt Yglesias. Run by the digital media company Vox Media, Vox.com currently has eight editorial brands including the sports website SB Nation and the technology news website The Verge.
    https://www.allsides.com/news-source/vox-news-media-bias



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    https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/vox/



    https://www.coloradopolitics.com/op...cle_94be35ae-5d93-11ea-9847-5fc425a8379c.html


     
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    Thank you for establishing that your criminal IMPOTUS had abysmally FAILED to prepare our nation for the inevitable PANDEMIC even at that LATE STAGE of global awareness of the seriousness of the virus.

    Furthermore EVERYTHING your criminal IMPOTUS does is ALWAYS about HIMSELF!

    He knew that those numbers will expose his INCOMPETENCE and FAILURE and that would hurt his chances in November.

    To PRETEND otherwise is to deny reality.
     
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    Politico and NPR (liberal propagandists) using unnamed sources to do a hit piece against Trump?

    Who saw that coming?
     
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    All those words just to respond to a nonsensical premise.
     
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    You are fooling yourself in more ways than one.
     

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