Golf Kept Trump From Focusing On COVID-19, Not Impeachment, Zings GOP Group In New Ad .... *shocking right ?
The latest scorcher of an attack ad by the Republican
Lincoln Project concedes
Donald Trump had other priorities before launching his lackluster battle against
COVID-19. But he wasn’t distracted by
impeachment, as he claims.
Instead, he was
too busy golfing and packing people into campaign rallies, according to the message released Thursday by the conservative group.
“Coronavirus has now killed three times more Americans than 9/11,” the ad notes somberly at the start. “
So what’s Donald Trump been up to? Blaming the impeachment hearings for distracting him from preparing for the pandemic.”
Despite warnings about the urgency of the virus from both his
trade adviser Peter Navarro and the
World Health Organization in January — and the subsequent shutdown of Italy —
Trump “had plenty to do, like campaign rallies and golfing,” notes the ad, titled “Distracted.”
The “
day before the first American died, where was Trump? Where do you think he was?” the narrator asks. “
At another rally. By March, the world was calling coronavirus a pandemic. Where was Trump? On Twitter, as usual, blaming everyone else.”
Trump “
just didn’t care. He still doesn’t. He was never distracted. And Americans have been paying attention,” the video concludes.
Senator Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell aka Moscow Mitch (R-Ky.) last month said
impeachment “diverted the attention of the government” from dealing with COVID-19. Trump told reporters: “I got impeached. I think you know I certainly
devoted a little time to thinking about it, right?” But the president also said he wouldn’t have done anything differently.
“The President’s dishonest, incompetent, and delusional press conferences have veered into
disturbing territory,” Reed Galen, political strategist and co-founder of The Lincoln Project, said in a statement Thursday. “The President is aware he lacks the competency to deal with this crisis, though he refuses to hold himself accountable. Instead, he’d rather place blame for his ineptitude on an irrelevant issue.”
