On Wednesday, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said President Donald Trump is displaying an “epic level of negligence and incompetence that is costing human lives” during the coronavirus pandemic and appeared to believe people are dying unnecessarily because the president ignored scientists. The far-left Democrat made her comments during a live Q&A with social media users.
Someone asked, “Do you think if we took precautions earlier than we did our numbers would be lower than it is now?” to which Ocasio-Cortez replied. “Yes.”
She's so, so wrong. Trump listened to the scientists — except on the China ban, when he defied the @WHO and public health "experts" (give the latter credit for good-faith objections) and SAVED lives as a result https://t.co/dPd9duS4Vs via @BreitbartNews
— Joel B. Pollak (@joelpollak) April 2, 2020
“I think that if Trump took this seriously, if Republicans took it seriously, I think that if we decided to listen to scientists early more than we listen to, you know, people who care more about profit than human lives, we would have taken precautions much earlier and we would have saved lives,” AOC said. “We either would have gone into lockdown earlier in some circumstances or we would have started producing these damn ventilators way earlier than we are now.”
She continued: “We would have invoked the Defense Production Act, but because Trump didn’t do that early enough, now we’re scrambling. And everything that is happening is happening late. And every decision that we make late means that people are dying unnecessarily.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on President Trump not enforcing the Defense Production Act: “We cannot wait until people start really dying in large numbers. … We need to start this production right now to get ready for the surge that is coming in two to three weeks” #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/tl3gVYsEdA
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 22, 2020
AOC is Parroting Pelosi
Ocasio-Cortez’s comments seem to be part of Democrat group-think at the moment, as they are similar to what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said earlier in the week.
“What the president— his denial at the beginning was deadly. His delaying of getting equipment to where —it continues— his delay in getting equipment to where it’s needed is deadly,” Pelosi told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday.
.@SpeakerPelosi accused @POTUS Trump of “fiddling" while people are dying. What??? Pres. Trump has been working to do everything he can to help our nation. https://t.co/InSK9Z0CZa
— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) March 30, 2020
It should be noted that when President Trump did take the early action of banning travel to the U.S. from China, Democrats called the move “racist.”
This shows how President @realDonaldTrump simply can't win with Dems and the media.
When he closed travel from China, they attacked him as racist. But now that that's been seen as the right call to do, now the media says he didn't do enough! https://t.co/ZTMSFd4vxO
— Dan K. Eberhart (@DanKEberhart) April 2, 2020
AOC seems to want to have it both ways. On March 10 she said “People are literally not patroning Chinese restaurants they’re not patroning Asian restaurants because of straight-up racism around the coronavirus.” On Tuesday she said, “Trump didn’t listen to scientists and act early enough and it’s caused people to die.” Weren’t scientists and other experts telling people to stay home for a few weeks now? Including dining in restaurants of any ethnic cuisine?
March 10, 2020 — AOC: “People are literally not patroning Chinese restaurants they’re not patroning Asian restaurants because of straight-up racism around the coronavirus.”
April 1, 2020 — AOC: Trump didn’t listen to scientists and act early enough and it’s caused people to die. pic.twitter.com/6vgx97iOL9
— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) April 2, 2020
Blame Game
Regardless, Ocasio-Cortez seems sure President Trump and Republicans deserve the most blame. “So understand, understand that people are not just dying of coronavirus,” AOC said during the Q&A. “They are dying due to incompetence. They are dying due to poor decision making. They are dying due to a lack of listening to scientists and doctors, and they’re dying due to a crisis and a pandemic of a lack of leadership—not just because of the disease.”
“And so the people who made those decisions who decided to prioritize profit over human life need to answer for those decisions,” she added.
Ocasio-Cortez blames only Trump and Republicans for the deaths of every American who dies from the coronavirus
Everything she says in this video is either misleading or an outright lie pic.twitter.com/csX7ybFaON
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) April 2, 2020
“And it’s not just Trump,” Ocasio-Cortez continued, blaming state Republican leaders also. If this kind of mindless partisan shilling is what Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez do in normal times, should we really expect anything better in a pandemic?
This piece originally appeared in ThePoliticalInsider.com and is used by permission.
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