Trump and the GOP’s Death March to Stimulate the Economy

LT. GOV. DAN PATRICK: No one reached out to me and said, “As a senior citizen, are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping the America that all America loves for your children and grandchildren?” And if that’s the exchange, I’m all in. And that doesn’t make me noble or brave or anything like that. I just think there are lots of grandparents out there in this country like me.PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. We’re not going to let the cure be worse than the problem. At the end of the 15-day period, we’ll make a decision as to which way we want to go, where we want to go, the timing. And essentially, we’re referring to the timing of the opening, essentially the opening of our country.I dealt with suicidal cults before. I encountered people who are willing to die for their faith, ideology, race, etc. But, I never encountered anyone who is willing to die for someone else’s 401k. This is a whole new level of craziness.-Former FBI Special Agent Ali H. Soufan via Twitter

While the death toll rises at rapid rates in the U.S and we become, as the WHO says, an epicenter for the COVID-19 crisis, our president is using the White House Press room as his public pulpit to decry his detractors and try to do a little PR clean up. It’s not working. His monumental ineptitude is being broadcast daily in a series of White House Press briefings on CoVID-19. Instead of having the trusted Dr. Anthony Fauci inform the American people of the pandemic at hand, we…