Trump is culpable for impacts of coronavirus

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Trump is culpable for impacts of coronavirus
By Neil Baron, opinion contributor — 03/13/20 11:30 AM EDT

Donald Trump’s mishandling of the coronavirus has shattered his favorite argument for getting reelected: the strong economy and buoyant stock market. The payroll tax cut he floated on Monday and the tax filing deadline extension he floated Wednesday won’t repair the virus’s economic damage —nor will it obscure his culpability for recklessly cutting health funding and trying to downplay the risks.

Even before Trump's dismal performance in this week's Oval Office address rattled markets and sowed confusion and chaos, he had already contributed to strangling the bull market by sowing uncertainty. He repeatedly contradicted his public health officials about the virus’s reach in the U.S. His administration missed the bulk of U.S. cases, leaving us without an accurate estimate of how far the virus had spread. That made it impossible to gauge how aggressive we should be in taking precautions. So many people and companies are acting out of an abundance of caution, which itself fuels economic contraction.

Trump depended on the stock market as a reason for voters to support him. So he sent National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow to CNBC to restore confidence in stock values. Kudlow told investors “Stocks look pretty cheap to me,” and the markets “have gone too far.”

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https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/487401-trump-is-culpable-for-impacts-of-coronavirus

[goatprairie]

Yes, and Trump was in the lead of those U.S. soldiers who marched into Wuhan and created the virus and deliberately spread it there.
That makes about as much sense as blaming Trump for the virus being here.
If we want to blame people for spreading the disease here, we shouldn't blame the person trying to prevent illegals from getting into the country.
Mistakes are always made at the top, and I suppose the Trump admin has made a few in this situation.
But this looks like a typical case of a liberal attempting to blame a Republican for every bad thing under the sun.