If Trump Can Lead U.S. Back To Work, Democrats Will Have Shot Their Bolt
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun | April 8, 2020
The most inane of the many fatuous arguments raging over the administration’s handling of the coronavirus is the debate about whether the Democrats distracted President Trump with the impeachment effort when he would otherwise have been raising the drawbridge earlier. This seems to have begun as Republicans other than the President asserted that the Democrats had no standing to complain about a slow start to grappling with the problem because they had wasted six weeks with a completely spurious impeachment case.
Then the Democrats, or rather the Trump-haters (because the poisonous weed of Never Trump still lurks in the fringes of the Republican garden), leapt upon the fact that Mr. Trump told a press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic that, after some consideration, he did not think that the attempt to remove him from office had retarded the administration’s response to the virus. His enemies ululated with glee that he had thrown away his one excuse for his otherwise supposedly inexcusable incompetence in dealing with the virus.
This is surreal idiocy, even from the most febrile Trump-haters. The impeachment was an outrage and a disgrace and an abject failure. The response of the administration to the viral danger was not delayed. The President was infamously accused by Vice President Biden of “hysteria and xenophobia†when he stopped direct flights from China on January 31.
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