From the Liveblog of
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Trump: Impeachment distracted everyone else from tackling virus
After being accused of dropping the ball and ignoring warnings about the severity of the coronavirus threat, US President Donald Trump is attempting to blame the media and Democrats instead.
“Congress was too distracted by the (phony) Impeachment Witch Hunt when they should have been investigating CoronaVirus when it first appeared in China. Media played a big roll also!” he tweets.
Great businessman & philanthropist Bernie Marcus, Co-Founder of Home Depot, said that Congress was too distracted by the (phony) Impeachment Witch Hunt when they should have been investigating CoronaVirus when it first appeared in China. Media played a big roll also!@dcexaminer
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 12, 2020
The tweet is seemingly referring to a Washington Examiner article quoting Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus, who claimed Congress was too busy investigating Trump to pay attention to the coronavirus sweeping China at the time.
The impeachment trial ended on February 5, when the virus was still mostly centered in Wuhan, China.
Trump maintained that the virus was nothing to worry about until mid March, but a story in the New York Times on Saturday showed that the president ignored repeated warnings about the severity of the disease.
The Times of Israel Community.