On ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, 2020 Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden said President Donald Trump should have stopped air travel from China sooner in the effort to battle the coronavirus pandemic, adding that 45 nations had already blocked “China personnel from being able to come to the United States.”

Commenting on President Trump’s approach to the crisis, former Vice President Biden said, “I would tell him what we went through a similar crisis, you have to move swiftly. We have to move more rapidly.”

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“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 added.

“He indicated that I complimented him on dealing with China,” Biden continued. “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.”

Democrats Originally Bashed Trump’s China Travel Ban

Keep in mind that while Biden now says Trump should have implemented the travel ban sooner, when the president actually did so, many Democrats were calling it racist. Biden referred to it as “hysteria” and “xenophobia”— now he’s changing his tune.

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Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, claimed in an interview last month that President Trump’s travel ban was key to America not getting hit as hard by the coronavirus crisis as other nations.

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In late January, a time when coronavirus was spreading and we can ostensibly believe when Biden thinks Trump should have enacted a China travel ban, Democrats were obsessed with just one thing: Impeachment. Joe Biden or any other Democrat accusing Trump of taking his eye off the ball in this moment is laughable at best.

This piece originally appeared in ThePoliticalInsider.com and is used by permission.

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