By Aliza Worthington
Speaker Nancy Pelosi unleashed a devastating ad against Trump,
laying waste to any delusion his supporters might have that he is
handling this pandemic competently or with care. It runs clips of him
downplaying the danger posed by COVID-19, despite clear warnings from
people in his own administration as early as January.
It charts the rise of illness and death ravaging the nation, the toll being taken on doctors, nurses, caregivers, while superimposing him trumpeting his desire to eliminate the Affordable Care Act.
It shows our journalistic crown jewel, Rachel Maddow, making a dire prediction that has already come true:
TRUMP: Stay calm./We have it totally under control./We're in great
shape./One day it's like a miracle, it will disappear./This is their new
hoax.
It charts the rise of illness and death ravaging the nation, the toll being taken on doctors, nurses, caregivers, while superimposing him trumpeting his desire to eliminate the Affordable Care Act.
TRUMP: What we want to do is terminate it.
It shows our journalistic crown jewel, Rachel Maddow, making a dire prediction that has already come true:
MADDOW: This is the kind of useless national response that's going to result in the deaths of thousands and thousands.
Then it shows him uttering the words that should be the chyron of every network every time they air his repugnant presence live:
TRUMP: No, I don't take responsibility at all.
It ends with the words, "He fiddles while Americans die," and the haunting sound of a heart monitor's flat-lining beep.
Nicolle Wallace showed that ad today, then followed it up with this:
WALLACE: It's tape like that, those clips of Donald Trump in his own
words at official public events, that represent either Donald Trump
telling deliberate lies or showcasing a gross misunderstanding of what a
pandemic is, that have his allies people like Lindsey Graham very
worried today.
According to The New York Times, Graham says, quote, "I told him your opponent is no longer Joe Biden, it's the virus."
And Lindsey Graham is not alone. The Times
adds, Mr. Trump's re-election campaign, staff members have closely
monitored internal polling data that shows an erosion of the gains Mr.
Trump made immediately after he put social distancing guidelines in
place. Advisers are torn between knowing that a less abrasive approach
would help Mr. Trump, and their awareness that he can't tolerate
criticism, regardless of the setting.
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