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Yavin4

(35,445 posts)
Thu May 14, 2020, 07:03 PM May 2020

Trump is setting up the governors.

He's encouraging them to re-open, but offers no plan.

Says there are tests for everyone, but there aren't any.

If they re-open and there are no spikes, then Trump will take all of the credit.

If they re-open and there are spikes, then Trump will blame the governors.

If they don't re-open, then he will use that as a campaign issue in their state and blame the poor economy on the governor for not re-opening.

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liberalmuse

(18,672 posts)
1. The Dem Governors will use science.
Thu May 14, 2020, 07:05 PM
May 2020

The GOP Governors will kowtow to Trump's mixed signals, open up, kill tons of people and get voted out. That can't help Trump at all.

bullimiami

(13,103 posts)
2. where they reopen recklessly there will be disaster. trump will not have any distance.
Thu May 14, 2020, 07:05 PM
May 2020

he is complicit out in the open.

SWBTATTReg

(22,166 posts)
3. And some of these governors have been smart, and are putting themselves out there w/ their ...
Thu May 14, 2020, 07:18 PM
May 2020

own conferences. I think more and more governors will continue to do this, spotlighting even worse, trump's blatant failures on a daily basis, via these governor-inspired news conferences.

If rump tries to end run these governors, he's going to find it awful difficult to counter/come up w/ valid excuses to justify his crappy responses/actions during this CV crisis.

Trump has the CV's name branded into his forehead, so that in the future, anyone who needs a reminder of just how bad rump is, simply needs to review his 'take bleach' or 'swallow disinfectant' comments (to beat the CV). I don't see how anyone can justify remarks like these. And these are the tip of the iceberg.

robbedvoter

(28,290 posts)
4. Like he did with the tests:he now takes credit in their efforts, even as
Thu May 14, 2020, 07:24 PM
May 2020

he sabotaged them. Many of them had to import them, hide them like drugs so Jared wouldn’t come and seize them.

uponit7771

(90,364 posts)
7. K&R, That's why ALL of the governors could protect against that by pleading nationally for more test
Thu May 14, 2020, 07:26 PM
May 2020

... and if they get it it was their idea but if they don't and their numbers spike it was Trumps fault.

We can go high smartly

LizBeth

(9,952 posts)
10. It is painfully clear to the nation, Trump ineptness and inability and that he exactly is not settin
Thu May 14, 2020, 08:00 PM
May 2020

up a plan. he will have his voters. They are not a part of the conversation. For the rest of the nation, we see what he is doing. And not doing. And the harm ineptness causes.

He went on a tweeter whine, Govs are being praised, when they are only as good as they are because of him.

We know better.

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