i rest my case by a poponderance of the evidence.

 

"poponderance"?

 

New Woodward tapes prove Trump 'has blood on his hands': Donny Deutsch

Tom Boggioni
November 04, 2022



Donald Trump (Photo by Mandel Ngan for AFP)


On Friday morning, journalist and author Bob Woodward shared more of his private interview tapes with Donald Trump and the "Morning Joe" panel was stunned to hear what Willie Geist called a "panicked" Trump trying to deny responsibility for being responsible for dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.

After listening to Woodward trying to get across to the former president that he needed to step up, and Trump continuing to complain that it wasn't his "fault," Morning Joe regular Donny Deutsch pronounced sentence on the former president.

"We have the play-by-play, the dates when he was warned," host Joe Scarborough prompted. "He was warned well ahead of time, but we hear on these tapes with Bob, we hear on these tapes, Donald Trump admitting that he actually knew about it earlier and also that he wasn't going to do anything about it for political reasons -- he wanted to downplay it."

"It's not too dramatic to say, he truly has blood on his hands," Deutsch remarked. "He can't put an exact number on it, but there's a real sizable number of 1 million people who died because of Donald Trump. There's a real percentage of those million plus people who died because of his failure to lead and his selfish motives."

IN OTHER NEWS: Trump-loving GOP poll watcher stammers after CNN reporter fact checks him in real time

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2658598443/

 

Well, since more people died on Bidens watch than Trumps watch maybe we should round both of them up and give them what they deserve.

Who's on board with that idea?

 

Report: Intelligence agencies didn’t move fast enough to collect Covid data
The report by Democrats on the House Intelligence Community says the CIA and other spy agencies "took too long to pivot."



The report looks at the intelligence community’s response to Covid-19, particularly in the early days of 2020. | Kevin Wolf/AP Photo

By Erin Banco

12/15/2022 01:48 PM EST
The intelligence community was not prepared for the Covid-19 pandemic and did not move quickly enough to gather information about the spread of the virus, according to a report released Thursday by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee.

The report looks at the intelligence community’s response to Covid-19, particularly in the early days of 2020. The intelligence agencies’ clandestine collectors largely focused on analyzing data about the virus that was already being discussed openly by public health officials and experts across the world, the report said, arguing that they moved too slowly to collect clandestine information.


And the intelligence community did not begin to provide that information to senior Trump administration officials until the end of January — weeks after the virus was already circulating across the world and after international health organizations had begun tracking the virus, the report said. The U.S. reported its first case on Jan. 18 and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not issue a directive for “enhanced community-wide collection” until Jan. 29, 2020.



The collectors “took too long to pivot their exquisite collection capabilities to meet senior officials’ needs to know more about the crisis,” the report said. The report also noted that “the IC is not uniquely positioned to identify new diseases that public health authorities have not yet found themselves.”

Senior health officials have repeatedly said over the past two years that if the U.S. — and the rest of the world — had put measures in place to help contain and isolate the virus sooner, Covid-19 might not have spread at such a devastating pace.

“Part of our aim in this report is to get the intelligence community to refocus strategically on where the threats actually are,” one of the committee’s investigators said.

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released a different report Thursday focusing on how the intelligence community handled the question of Covid’s origins. It accused the intelligence community of failing to adequately address the question of whether there is a potential link between Covid-19 and China’s biological weapons efforts.

The Democrats’ report said the intelligence community did issue warnings about a potential global pandemic well before the World Health Organization issued such an announcement in March 2020. And despite President Donald Trump’s public remarks that the intelligence community did not speak in threatening terms about the potential pandemic, analysts did, in fact, send “dire” assessments in late January and early February, according to the report.




Overall, the intelligence community needs to improve the way it prepares for and responds to global health threats, the report said. Over the years, the intelligence agencies, including the CIA, have not prioritized tracking and analyzing biological threats. And even after the last nearly three years of the Covid pandemic, the intelligence community has still not made the necessary adjustments to focus on the issue, the report said.

The administration has reestablished the pandemic office at the National Security Council — the same office disbanded under the Trump administration. And it has appointed various people to oversee global health security and global health issues. But, the report said, those actions “do not signal a sustained, long-term investment.”

“The Intelligence Community has not enacted fundamental changes necessary to improve its ability to support health security policy makers facing a novel disease,” according to the report. For example, it pointed to the intelligence community’s 2022 fiscal year budget, which proposes cuts to the National Center for Medical Intelligence, an office within the Defense Intelligence Agency that tracks and analyzes health events that could potentially threaten national security.

Even if the intelligence community does not necessarily have the ability to identify a disease on its own before the public health community, it can and should still work to gather and analyze open source information about indications of a novel disease. It should also work more closely with public health officials during health emergencies, the report said.

“This enables a quicker pivot of the Intelligence Community’s unique clandestine collection apparatus,” the report said. “Intelligence should pivot quickly to try to generate information that public health agencies cannot learn on their own — particularly when facing a country that is more interested in avoiding panic (or blame) than it is in arresting a growing public health emergency.”


https://www.politico.com/news/2022/...ve-fast-enough-to-collect-covid-data-00074146

 

Too much info. I think. Did you miss me, stumbler?

 

I know the answer, but who in their right mind would make the intelligence community responsible for a medical crisis in any way?

 

I missed you, Mayling.

 

I missed you too @Distant Lover..

 

@stumbler, you're right I don't own a pair of heels, I own several pairs.

 

Watch: Jamie Raskin derails GOP hearing by railing against Trump's 'lethal recklessness and lying'




Sky Palma
March 28, 2023












WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 31: U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) (L), Ranking Member on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, delivers remarks during a Committee meeting in the Rayburn House Office Building on January 31, 2023 in Washington, DC. The Committee met today for their first meeting of the 118th Congress to outline their agenda and vote on Committee rules. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)


During a House Oversight Committee hearing on school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) slammed former President Donald Trump and his administration, calling his public health response to the emergency a "historic debacle."





"You don't need to go to the American Medical Association or the American Hospital Association or the American Nursing Association to conclude that Trump's lethal recklessness and lying led to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths," Raskin said.

"You just have to go to Donald Trump's own COVID-19 adviser, Dr. Deborah Birx, who said that by undermining mass testing, not more aggressively coordinating vaccination and treatment, not seriously implementing mask mandates, the administration failed to save at least 130,000 lives, and probably a lot more than that."

Raskin went on to quote Birx's 2022 testimony before the the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, where she said, "We probably could have decreased fatalities into the 30 percent less, to 40 percent less range."

https://www.rawstory.com/jamie-raskin-house-oversight/

 

Rent free
Tax free

 

You are correct, Trump did not start the fire, it has been smoldering for many years.
He is just pouring a few hundred gallons of gasoline on it and fanning the flames.

 

2 years out of office and still, everything is his fault.

 

The country will survive this bunch, easily.

 

Why not? You guys were blaming Obama in Trump's last year... You guys even created a thread on the forum... Oh wait, it's this very thread! Started in 2020 by shy guy before he left... Guess you missed all the posts you made...

 

Yeah, anon, the old "you guys did it so we can do it" defense.

 

Trump took credit for the economy that Obama had restored to health after Bush's disastrous 2nd term. But repukes don't care about truth.

 

Well, silky, that's a lie and you know it.
Obama's economy was anemic at best.
Trump strapped rockets on the economy and sent it soaring.
Now biden has it cornered and beaten back to what it was with Obama.

 

Obama inherited an economy in shambles. Trump thanked Obama for rescuing the economy.

"Trump claimed that under Obama, “almost 5 million more Americans had left the labor force.” Not true. In fact, the civilian labor force grew by nearly 5.5 million under Obama."