Trump Was Slow To Absorb The Scale Of Virus’ Risk: NYT | Morning Joe | MSNBC

'The president, though, was slow to absorb the scale of the risk and to act accordingly' on the coronavirus, according to new NYT reporting. Reporter Eric Lipton joins Morning Joe to discuss. Aired on 4/13/2020.
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Trump Was Slow To Absorb The Scale Of Virus' Risk: NYT | Morning Joe | MSNBC

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  1. Trump is the most incompetent president that have ever been in that White House. He is worthless. As far as I’m concerned, the blood is on Trump’s hands.

    1. In reality, it’s the ignorant inbred Deplorable (aka the Evangelicals, aka the Republican voters, aka the descendants of the Confederacy) that have American’s blood on their hands.
      These scum keep supporting their orange “white race savior” no matter how corrupt, criminal, and unqualified he is.

    1. @jim walker Thanks for making my point for me. You’ve squandered a perfect opportunity to impress upon your potential doubters your vast knowledge gained through years of researching the writings of critical thinkers. Please feel free to list your current news sources. I am not a democrat. I refuse to take sides, as I am unwilling to appease any group on all ideas. If you say that I watch CNN, I will tell you that I am very aware that they lean left. MSNBC even more so. Fox and OAN for instance, lean far to the right. I indulge in many news sources, including: Australian, BBC, RT, Al Jazeera, France 24, PBS, NPR, The New York Times, and seemingly countless others, as well as So. Ca. local news. I don’t agree with many of them very often but, I do triangulate intel in an effort to make the most informed decisions, and am always open to changing my position as better evidence comes to light. Some of my favorites are Socrates, Carl Sagan, Christopher Hitchens and Noam Chomsky. My cards are on the table for your perusal.

    1. @Cynthia Kōhler Dies its night Das Behandlungsprotokoll in Deutschland. Zitieren Sie Ihre Quellen, anstatt Daten fälschlisherweise zu manipulieren.

    1. @Randy Allen You can’t even write a decent sentence. And when I worked for Medicaid we were instructed in writing to speak at 4th grade level with the poor – by our DEMOCRAT governor. Because many of the poor can’t even speak ENGLISH. Knock it off. Trump knows about business, and you and the poor don’t.

  2. Blump apologists:
    What would y’all be saying if this was happening under Legitimate President Obama?
    Oh wait. That’s right, Obama had A Pandemic Taskforce so it wouldn’t.

    1. @Seventy8 The state conceded there were 1 million illegal votes cast. That just means nobody opposed the move. You live in Ohio?

    2. @Grant Rose
      Dude. The state conceded there were INACTIVE voters on the rolls. People who hadn’t cast a vote in 10 years bc they died or moved or whatever. I’ll reiterate:
      None of those INACTIVE voters had cast a vote in over 10 years.
      It did NOT concede there were illegal votes cast.
      Read the link above. You are being duped by a gaslighter.

    3. @John Carter you put the opioid crisis 100% on Obama? Shame on u4 lying and 4 supporting a con man. God will judge u.

  3. Trump: if less than 100k Americans die, we did good.
    Also trump: we can’t let anything happen to Boeing

    1. Grant Rose he doesn’t even listen to the democrats. It has nothing to do with them. It’s between the president and his own stafff

    2. He listened to Cuomo & gave him everything he needed. That’s why Cuomo not only apologized to the president for things he said earlier, but highly praised the president as well.

    3. Looks like Grant Rose is still a believer
      Wonder what in the personal life must happen to open some eyes there to the betrayal that’s going on

      Might verywell be a lost cause

    4. @EsTe Typical liberal can’t have a civil debate on the issues. Probably because not only is quid pro Joe gonna get clobbered in Nov., but the ranks of the democratic party are shrinking, due to blaxit & walk away political movements.🇺🇸

  4. King iDjT has been a “war president” from the start. The war on facts, the war on truth, the war on justice, the war on law enforcement, the war on intelligence, the war on strategic allies, the war on racial equality, the war on financial equality and ultimately the war on America.

    1. @Cheryl Lawlor Good points dear American, however what you wrote it makes no difference to Trump-hating, commie liberal/demoRATS. The only way to stop their agenda is to have an all-out civil war and put them into mass graves.

    2. To err is human . To err grossly can be Presidential. But to deny one had anything to do with the error is the antithesis of accountable government. To deny any and all specific responsibilities but assert total control of the issue as a whole is an insult to intelligence.

    1. J Moore Republicans sleep well after killing millions of children around the world, and in the poorer parts of America.

    2. G Montezuma = Worthless Freeloader Lowlife POS Pro Choice Aborter Supporter Murdering Innocent Unborn.
      MATTHEW 25:41 – Those on the LEFT will burn in eternal 🔥.
      Sleep well POS👿!

    3. @G Montezuma easter…. you clearly watched CNN and didnt see what he actually said. Again that’s how CNN tricks you peons into believing nonsense. The context is important….. he said he “hopes” we can all celebrate easter…… you know “hope” like you loonies celebrated for 8 years of Obummer. Go back and watch the actual meeting, not a media cut of what he said. You wont, you will continue to trust fake news instead of taking 1hr to research and realize it’s fake. It’s called being a sheep, now off to the field for you.

  5. He paid attention to Rush Limbaugh’s rant about c o v i d hoax and recently awarded him the medal of freedom for spreading confusion and leading the charge with previous hoax’s.

    1. Da SuitMan I’m not entirely sure, but I think Limbaugh received the medal _before_ he began ranting about Covid hoax.

    2. ​@Anthony Magnabosco Within days after receiving the medal, Rush’s COVID hoax rant began. That medal is powerful Narc food and Rush ate it all up. The medal emboldened him to spit out arguably the biggest B.S. of his career. Where is the media on this nugget. They should ask Trump if he still deserves the medal and watch him squirm, lie, and do what he does best to pivot out of that mess of a question. How does Rush make so much money being so wrong? A control freak is a narcissist who bends the truth to feed his ego at all costs. It’s mentally unhealthy for anyone who doesn’t buy ino the crap this type of person sells to live in that reality.

  6. This is exactly what happens when you hire an insane reality TV host, whose a$$ belongs to the Russians, to run a country.

    1. It wasn’t in the script he has, so how could he do anything? He waited for a script but none came. As president, he is supposed to write his own script but Trump has no leadership, only thuggish attacking of truth merchants.

  7. America . . . if you’re listening
    Want a reovolution?
    JOIN THE ONE HUNDRED MILLION MARCH STRAIGHT TO THE BALLOT BOX IN NOVEMBER
    END THE IDIOCY

    1. And of marching to vote is looking problematical, you can request a mail-in ballot beforehand. But RIGHT NOW is the time to encourage your state to adopt VOTiNG BY MAIL!! Far safer than voting machines. It’s very popular in the states that already VOTE BY MAIL.

    2. @P. L. ODay german here… Not sure if you are informed by now but,..
      Trump did today *DENYED payments the Postal Office was requesting* to keep operative effective.
      – You better watch out guys,…

      – Go inform yourselfe, do not believe solo a random german guys comment on utube alone.

      Good luck & Stay save

    3. We have no choice but to vote for brain dead Joe. 4 more yrs of this fat-criminal is a genocide to our country and the world. His cult-followers still thing that covid-19 is a hoax 😟

  8. “This is a pandemic, I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
    “Sir, this is a McDonald’s drive-thru…”

    1. Mark G. Everyone must remember what we are hearing today and return this to Trump and those Republicans who refuse to respond responsibly at the polls on Election Day, November!

    1. @Ry Porter No, that would be Obama supporters, who watched our stockpile of masks shrink from 150,000,000 to 50,000,000 after the H1N1 virus, and never replenished them.

    2. William Taylor I’m not a democrat. I have a lot of criticisms about Obama too. Maybe instead of following whatever a party tells you to think, you should think for yourself.

    3. No other president is singularly responsible for a catastrophe of negligent murder of 50K+ lives. Has he got malpractice insurance/ public liability insurance? If a doctor kills a patient by neglect & denial, he can lose his license, what can neutralise Trump’s negligence & malpractice – what license can he lose?

  9. “I cannot tell a lie” – George Washington
    “I cannot tell the truth” – Donald Trump
    “I cannot tel the difference” – Trump voter

    1. J Moore why yes, by all means elect a lying, cheating adulterer who has the Christian morals of a pig. You know, it says in the Bible about people who hold hate like you do in your heart against people like me. “Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.” I’m not worried about going to heaven (I’m not religious because I follow the tenets about not believing god sponsors a religion like Nike sponsors football) but obviously you do so I’d stop being a judgmental hypocrite. I’d hate to sit here laughing at your all caps devil response and be the reason a kind god fearing person like yourself ends up burning for breaking such an important tenet of Christianity, love your neighbor as yourself. I’m not feeling god’s love from our debate coming from your words. Do you think you can bring people to the lord with hate and vitriol? As your dictator would say, “sad”.

    2. Laura
      You defend your Pro Death friend ENGINEERED who CAN’T SPELL and HIDES behind a fake profile while insulting Republicans.
      You’re ALL alike.
      The Bible tells to stay away from the Pharisees = Demon 😈 Democrats.
      You and every Democrat know that abortion is murder.
      I won’t be able to save you.
      Wake up before it’s too late.

    1. You don’t get it, Zombie. The worst candidates go to the government. Professors push the best students overall – with good looks, nice manners, to the private sector! I know because I know people who were selected in that way. Stop being so jealous.

  10. I love how Trump thinks that saying he didn’t hear about the warning memo’s is some kind of bulletproof defense.

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