Joel B. Pollak 31 Mar 2020
President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday that impeachment did not affect his ability to respond to the coronavirus, but it had distracted Democrats.
As Breitbart News noted Mar. 13, the timeline of events shows that President Trump took actions against the coronavirus throughout his impeachment trial — but Democrats in Congress did nothing until impeachment ended.
The trial began Jan. 16, the day after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) signed the articles of impeachment — with over a dozen commemorative pens — and sent them to the Senate. The trial ended Feb. 5, twenty days later, with Trump’s acquittal.
The first coronavirus patient arrived in the U.S. from China on Jan. 15.
Subsequently, the White House formed a coronavirus task force on Jan. 27. President Trump chaired a meeting of the task force on Jan. 29. On Jan. 31, he imposed a travel ban on China to slow the spread of the virus to the U.S. On Feb. 4, he spoke about coronavirus in his State of the Union address — which Pelosi infamously tore in half.
It was not until Feb. 5 — the day the impeachment trial ended — that Democrats did anything about coronavirus, holding a hearing in a regional subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/31/trump-i-wasnt-distracted-by-impeachment-but-democrats-were/
