Graham Blames Democrats For GOP Coronavirus Failures

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Prominent Trump shill and Republican Senator from South Carolina Lindsey Graham apparently believes that failures of the federal government’s Republican leaders to respond effectively to the Coronavirus should be laid at the feet of Democrats. Although he’s late to the party on this one — other Republicans floated this idea some time ago — this week, Graham claimed that Democrats were ignorantly distracted by their impeachment proceedings against Trump when the Coronavirus response should have been underway. Graham’s excuse, however, is ludicrous and disconnected from the facts.

He tweeted:

‘When it comes to the month of February, most Democrats and the media were more worried about impeaching President @realDonaldTrump than coronavirus. We voted to acquit President Trump on February 6. During that time, Democrats were making witness requests which – if they had been granted – would have extended the trial through most of February. Very sad, very dangerous.’

Wrong. It’s like he’s sticking his head in the sand and expecting observers to take him seriously anyway. At the end of February — weeks after the impeachment proceedings concluded — Trump proclaimed at a campaign rally in South Carolina that Coronavirus concern was a “hoax.” In mid-March — more than a month after impeachment proceedings concluded — Trump got around to issuing national social distancing guidelines in an attempt to stem the Coronavirus spread. Reportedly, public health professionals like Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health had been advocating for the implementation of social distancing guidelines for at least a month prior to Trump’s actual order.

Throughout that whole period, Congressional Democrats were advocating for a more rigorous Coronavirus response. They wanted emergency funding, and they wanted a plan in place to deal with the crisis. Democrats and Republicans actually eventually ended up coming together to approve far more initial emergency funding than the administration had even requested. In other words — Graham’s suggestion that the president was taking the virus seriously while Democrats were wasting time is glaringly incorrect and wishful thinking — at best. At worst, it’s willfully dangerous misinformation.

Check out Twitter’s response…

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