Pathetic: Democrat gets caught blatantly lying and blaming Trump for coronavirus deaths

by SooperMexican

Senator Tammy Duckworth really should have checked her facts before she fired off this absurd tweet blaming el Presidente Trumpo for some phantom deaths because of a lack of ventilators.

Uhm, what? What is she talking about? There hasn’t been ANY lack of ventilators at all, and I don’t think there’s been one single person who has died because of a lack of a ventilator. There are all sorts of complex reasons why that happened, but part of if is that Trump really did go out and try to get ventilators to the places that needed them, including New York City.

And in fact, Trump is absolutely right about Cuomo demanding 40,000 ventilators and not needing them. SO WHY are Democrats trying to nail him on this? It makes zero sense!

Here’s National Review about the whole debacle:

When President Trump noted that Cuomo’s state had thousands of unused ventilators it hadn’t even placed yet, Cuomo admitted this was true but said he still needed more: “Yes, they’re in a stockpile because that’s where they’re supposed to be because we don’t need them yet. We need them for the apex,” Cuomo said at the time. On April 2, Cuomo predicted the state would run out of ventilators in six days “at the current burn rate.” But on April 6, Cuomo noted, “We’re ok, and we have some in reserve.”

Now New York appears to have passed the apex. Deaths, a lagging indicator, crested at 799 on April 9 and hit 606 on April 16, the lowest figure since April 6. Hospitalizations are also declining, and on April 16 also hit their lowest level since April 6. Cuomo today has so many ventilators he is giving them away: On April 15, he said he was sending 100 of them to Michigan and 50 to Maryland. On April 16, he announced he was sending 100 to New Jersey.

And…

Three weeks ago, President Trump was mocked and ridiculed for downplaying the need for more ventilators. “I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they’re going to be,” Trump said on March 27. “I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators,” he added, referring to Cuomo’s estimate for New York state. Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and others said they had “facts” on their side. Said De Blasio, “When the president says the state of New York doesn’t need 30,000 ventilators, with all due respect to him, he’s not looking at the facts of this astronomical growth of this crisis. And a ventilator . . . means someone lives or dies.”

NPR ran a strange piece casting these rival predictions as matters of fact also: “FACT CHECK: N.Y. Governor Slams Trump Ventilator Claim As ‘Ignorant’ And ‘Uninformed.’” Well, yes, it’s a fact that the governor expressed those opinions, but NPR doesn’t ordinarily fact-check opinions. NPR couldn’t fact-check the future in this “FACT CHECK,” and didn’t. The ventilator shortages of which we were all gravely warned have not yet come to pass. If we have indeed reached the crest of the crisis, perhaps they won’t.

Now, I am willing to entertain that maybe Trump should have been on this thing sooner and forced production of PPE and other supplies. I think early on it really did seem like he was downplaying the crisis. But there is absolutely no reason to believe that one single American has died because of the lack of ventilators.

Maybe that will change and maybe I am wrong, but if there were even one case, you know that the media would be blaring out the news about that one case.

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