Trump attacks ‘Do Nothing Democrats’ over coronavirus as his administration’s response comes under fire and Wall Street braces for more turmoil
- The president was tweeting about the outbreak after midnight
- He said Democrats were ‘wasting time’ on the ‘Immigration Hoax’
- Defended his decision to cut off flights to China
- He said the outbreak ‘is now being blamed, by the Do Nothing Democrats, to be the fault of ‘Trump”
- Trump said the virus spread slowly in the U.S. ‘because President Trump closed our border’
- During briefing to the nation alongside top government doctors Trump blamed stock marker slide on Democratic debate
- Wall Street prepared for another rough day Friday
- Trump accused CNN of trying to ‘stoke a national Coronavirus panic
President Donald Trump mounted angry attacks at Democrats over the coronavirus outbreak, defending his own response record and complaining about being ‘blamed’ for it.
‘The Do Nothing Democrats were busy wasting time on the Immigration Hoax, & anything else they could do to make the Republican Party look bad, while I was busy calling early BORDER & FLIGHT closings, putting us way ahead in our battle with Coronavirus. Dems called it VERY wrong!’ Trump wrote before 1 am Friday.
He credited his own measures for slowing the spread of the virus, as public health officials professionals brace for impacts and drug companies seek to develop a vaccine.
President Donald Trump defended his response to the coronavirus outbreak as he mounted angry attacks at Democrats that extended into the early hours Friday
‘So, the Coronavirus, which started in China and spread to various countries throughout the world, but very slowly in the U.S. because President Trump closed our border, and ended flights, VERY EARLY, is now being blamed, by the Do Nothing Democrats, to be the fault of ‘Trump” he wrote.
Democratic presidential hopefulls have yet to open full-on attacks on Trump over the outbreak, though Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar blasted Trump’s decision to put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the coronavirus response, pointing to his handling of an HIV outbreak in Indiana as governor.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has accused Trump of general ”hysterical xenophobia and fearmongering.’
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Thursday blasted the decision to put Mike Pence in charge of coronavirus response. She said she told Pence about her concerns in a phone call
Trump’s defense came as Wall Street prepared for another rough day, after economists said the virus-driven free fall has wiped out $5 trillion in global wealth. The Dow Jones Industrial Average had its biggest single-day point drop, though not its biggest fall as a percentage.
Trump said the spread was slowed because ‘President Trump closed our border’
Trump attacked the ‘Do Nothing Democrats’ over coronavirus, after previously blaming presidential rivals, rather than the disease, for a stock slide
Trump accused CNN of trying to ‘stoke a national Coronavirus panic
He attacked CNN as ‘Fake News’ as he went after the network
By the end of 2019 as the outbreak took hold, Trump restricted travel to citizensfrom a slew of countries.
Pence appeared on Fox News Thursday where he defended his role as Donald Trump’s coronavirus czar amid renewed scrutiny of his handling of an HIV outbreak in southern Indiana when he was governor.
‘In 2015, we did have in a small town in Indiana a rise in incidents of HIV AIDS. It was all directly coming from people sharing needles and intravenous drug use.
‘I don’t believe in needle exchanges as a way to combat drug abuse, but in this case we came to the conclusion that we had a public health emergency, and so I took executive action to make a limited needle exchange available,’ he said.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. on Thursday blasted the decision to put Mike Pence in charge of coronavirus response. She said she told Pence about her concerns in a phone call
Sen. Elizabeth Warren blasted the appointment of Vice President Mike Pence to oversee the response
Trader Peter Tuchman works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020
Greg Millett, director of public policy at amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, said Indiana’s HIV outbreak would have been ‘entirely preventable’ if Pence had acted earlier in response to data that was available to Indiana public health officials and clearly showed an outbreak was imminent.