House of Commons President Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday condemned President Donald Trump’s efforts to minimize the effect of the coronavirus pandemic in the early stages of the pandemic, saying they unmasked his “disrespect” for other Americans and their own followers.
“This is a tragedy beyond words,” Pelosi said at a news convention Thursday morning, adding, “He has shown his contempt for other American people and his health, contempt for science. Disdain for any genuine effort to reduce the virus. Contempt for his followers: his children, his parents. “
Pelosi said Trump’s refusal to take the risk of coronavirus seriously when he reported the devastating severity of the coronavirus in January had left the entire country “exposed and unprepared. “
Comments stick to Wednesday’s revelations from investigative journalist Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, “Rage,” which quotes President Trump in recorded audio interviews saying he knew the coronavirus was “fatal,” even though for months he described the pandemic as non-threatening. – a challenge to “pass to disappear”.
Hours after the comments were revealed, Trump defended his comments to Woodward by saying Wednesday that he was looking to be a “porrist” while releasing smoke and the country was fighting, which led to a large spread of the disease in the United States, which has killed some 200,000 people in the United States since March.
But as Pelosi smashed Trump, conservative commentators continued to protect a defenseless president, running to Trump’s aid because he doesn’t justify his own deception.
Early Thursday, Fox host
Another Fox News host, Stuart Varney, said he thought it was “very good” that President Trump had avoided disclosing the event to the public.
Comments and complicity seem to echo those of Republican lawmakers who have largely refused to condemn the resolution, either by saying they don’t know the e-book or pointing the finger. he “didn’t see Woodward’s e-book. “
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) noted in an interview with MSNBC on Thursday that Republican leaders have been “incredibly quiet” on a number of troubling issues, Trump comments on the Woodward’s book.
Schiff told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that the GOP leadership in Congress and “many of its members have a personality cult around the president. “
In the early hours of Thursday, Trump falsely said woodward agreed with his resolve to minimize the severity of the virus, that if the journalist had believed otherwise, he would have published his findings sooner.
Woodward attributed the delay in his reports to verifying the veracity of Trump’s claims, as the president is distorting the information.