President Trump lashed out at Chris Wallace on Sunday, calling him a wannabe, which is a reference to his late father Mike Wallace, a prominent journalist. On his show Sunday, Wallace appeared to buy into a new wave of attacks claiming President Trump delayed the social distancing mandate and was responsible for deaths.
“Just watched Mike Wallace wannabe, Chris Wallace, on @FoxNews,” Trump tweeted. “I am now convinced that he is even worse than Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd of Meet the Press(please!), or the people over at Deface the Nation. What the hell is happening to @FoxNews. It’s a whole new ballgame over there!”
Just watched Mike Wallace wannabe, Chris Wallace, on @FoxNews. I am now convinced that he is even worse than Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd of Meet the Press(please!), or the people over at Deface the Nation. What the hell is happening to @FoxNews. It’s a whole new ballgame over there!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 12, 2020
WHY HE REACTED
President Trump reacted to Wallace speaking to Dr. Tom Inglesby of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security about the coronavirus response. Inglesby said that if the U.S. had acted on some of the warnings earlier that we would be in a much better position.
Inglesby didn’t mention President Trump.
Mr. Inglesby said he’s not sure that there was the political will to do it in February.
He also said that it appears that we’re heading towards a peak or a plateau. President Trump also tweeted yesterday about how Fox News on weekend afternoons is a waste of time.
THE UNFAIR ACCUSATION
Wallace decided to use his show this morning as an opportunity to put President Trump on the hot seat:
Dr. Thomas Inglesby: “If we had acted on some of those warnings earlier we’d be in a much better position.” pic.twitter.com/K6G8H7Kj30
— FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) April 12, 2020
Here’s Chris Wallace on Fox asking “How damaging is it?” That Trump’s own experts were saying he refused to act a full month before he acted.
The response? Blaming China. pic.twitter.com/QihloEXFBD
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) April 12, 2020
BACKGROUND
This morning on CNN Sunday, Dr. Fauci suggested the administration delayed the social distancing for three weeks, after prompting from Jake Tapper. Host Jake Tapper referred to the lives it cost and Fauci appeared to agree. It is the latest attack that has gone around for the past two days.
While President Trump’s name wasn’t mentioned, he is always the topic.
Dr. Fauci must have forgotten his own advice in February.
This is what Dr. Fauci was telling President Trump on February 29th, and it was the advice he was giving President Trump:
On February 29th, he was asked about people wanting to go to malls, movies, maybe the gym, and the hosts wanted to know what “should we be changing our habits and, if so, how?”
His response was, “Right now, at this moment, there’s no need to change anything you’re doing on a day by day basis. Right now the risk is still low, but this could change. I’ve said that many times even on this program. You’ve got to watch out because although the risk is low now, you don’t need to change anything you’re doing. When you start to see the community spread. This could change and force you to become much more attentive to doing things that would protect you from spread.”
He also said it [the virus] could be a “major outbreak,” but he hoped not, “or it could be something reasonably controlled. At the end of the day, this will ultimately go down.”
Watch:
This is what Fauci was telling the public on February 29 pic.twitter.com/RL45poVmS8
— Steph (@steph93065) April 12, 2020
Rupert’s sons wives. Mean girls all who think that they will be kommissars in the Great Leap Forward redux.
time to shut up fauci,hes getting over his skis,his dem side is showing
Steve, you are being too nice! Jim is an
ignorant self opinionated idiot with no real grasp of fact over fiction. He is the problem with America today believing the BS propaganda distorted by the media to further a global agenda that destroys our freedom and liberties. Just another fool who has no respect for our President or any American who gave there life for freedom. Trump 2020!
This is another trap set for Trump, quite similar to the Russian hoax. In both cases, his staff, the DOJ and the health officials, worked deliberately against him.
Jim, you’re a blithering idiot.
Well Trump did ignore this pandemic and all the evidence of what was happening all over the world already. There’s no reason we should be the last country to get the virus and still be the country with the most cases and deaths. The only reason is Trump’s inactions on the matter. I suspect only to buy time to sell all his and his buddies stocks first but he may just be that stupid.
Two words Jim for your comment; bull and manure!
I guess Jim has never heard of statistics. The US is well below in the death ‘rate’. Spain at the highest is 300 dpm while the US is about 40 dpm. There are five countries ahead of the US with over 100.
Obviously Hillary sycophant lover deep stater Fauci can’t remember what/when he said before when attempting to make our President look bad.
Trump has been far too forgiving with Fox. They have been “infected” with hysteria throughout the day. When they promote hysteria by saying a state with 6 (SIX) deaths had over a 200% increase without saying the number is negligence. I’d even call it criminal negligence. They included That with other states with similar extreme numbers. Those other states may not be as reported. Evidently those large increases were due to previous cases not identified. In reality they are not literally New Cases, but old with New Reporting. It’s been the same with European data also.
So we’ve flattened the economy, not the virus. With the attempt to “flatten” the curve we’ve, instead, prolonged the virus and possibly running it into the upcoming flu season. This secondary outbreak may expand beyond what would have originally been. But for some reason Trump has “accepted” the Most extreme scenarios and that makes it more difficult to pull back from.
“What the hell is happening to Fox News?”
Mr. President, with all due respect, you might want to take a hard look at the source of the fuel for this fire. Ask yourself what the hell is Fauci up to, who’s team is he on?
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