Biden Hints Trump Should Have Stopped Air Travel from China Sooner — ’45 Nations Had Already Moved’

[mystery-ak]

Pam Key 5 Apr 2020

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” former Vice President Joe Biden said President Donald Trump should have stopped air travel from China sooner than he did to fight the coronavirus pandemic by saying 45 nations had already blocked “China personnel from being able to come to the United States.”

On  Trump’s response to the outbreak, Biden said, “I would tell him what we went through a similar crisis, you have to move swiftly. We have to move more rapidly. You have to implement the Defense Production Act, empower a supply commander, create, you know, a Defense Production Act for banks for small business loans, you got to faster than slower, and we started off awfully slow.”

He continued, “He indicated that I complimented him on dealing with China. Well, you know, 45 nations had already moved to keep — to block China personnel from being able to come to the United States before the president moved. It’s about pace. It’s about —it’s about the urgency, and I don’t think there’s been enough of it.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/04/05/biden-hints-trump-should-have-stopped-air-travel-from-china-sooner-45-nations-had-already-moved/

[PeteS in CA]

Is this the same Joe Biden who basically said, at the time, that this action was xenophobia?

[dfwgator]

Is this the same Joe Biden who basically said, at the time, that this action was xenophobia?

Yes.

[PeteS in CA]

https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/12/biden-calls-trump-racist-for-stating-the-fact-that-wuhan-virus-began-in-china/

Biden Calls Trump Racist For Stating The Fact That Wuhan Virus Began In China
MARCH 12, 2020 By Tristan Justice

On Thursday, Biden also criticized the administration’s decision to implement a near-total European travel ban recommended by White House public health advisors, with an exception for the United Kingdom.

“Banning all travel from Europe or any other part of the world may slow it, but…it will not stop it,” Biden warned.

In January, Biden also criticized as xenophobic the administration’s travel ban to China as the outbreak began to worsen, although it was instrumental in preventing an outbreak in the United States much sooner.

“This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia,” Biden said during an Iowa campaign event.

For some reason, Prog pols like Biden, like Pelosi, like de Blah-Blah do not get that the Internet is "forever", and the stupid things they said/did a month or two ago did not disappear into the aether.