December 18, 2023
A disheartening report about how Trump was convinced to go along with lockdowns
By Monica Showalter
For President Trump, the COVID lockdowns of 2020 have always been a touchy subject.
Like so many in America, Trump went along with what his advisors told him, and they told him "lockdowns"! That's how "fifteen days to slow the spread" became years to slow the spread, a blight lasting beyond Trump's presidency. This political plague wrecked all the good that he did earlier on the economy. Assuming no effective election fraud (a big 'if'), it probably cost him his re-election.
Jeffrey A. Tucker, founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, dug deeper into how such an impressive president like that could get so involved in that destructive idea, for which he has unfortunately has not apologized, nor confronted, but only tried to avoid as a subject in public. Trump's been lucky in one sense, because his leftist opponents have embraced lockdowns even more enthusiastically. But how could Trump get involved with that garbage?
Tucker did some digging, followed the timelines, and now lays out all the claims and scenarios from various memoirs of the players -- from the death of one of Trump's friends, to claims from a flattering advisor that lockdowns would enhance his respect among his staff.
But he went further.
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