WHY DID TRUMP DELAY?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 1 August 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Why did Trump delay? It’s going to cost tens of thousands of lives, deaths that were completely unnecessary, and wreak massive damage to our healthcare system and the people who work in it. Why did he decide to do that, when he could see other countries getting this thing under control at the same time that Italy failed to because they followed policies similar to his? Why? America deserves an answer.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | You know, every day I write a little rant that we post over at buzz flash.com. |
| 0:21.0 | And I share it with you. Typically, it's the first thing that I talk about when I go on the |
| 0:24.5 | air and I was looking over some of those rants that have done in the past this |
| 0:30.3 | morning and I saw this one from March 24th. |
| 0:34.0 | So, you know, this is what, three months ago, |
| 0:37.0 | April, May, June, July, four months ago. |
| 0:40.0 | And it was, you know, the third week of March it was as Americans were just |
| 0:46.0 | starting to die in large numbers. I think you know at that point we were maybe at |
| 0:50.7 | a few hundred dead Americans. |
| 0:52.8 | And in that op ad, in that, you know, |
| 0:58.6 | rant that I did that day on the air |
| 1:00.3 | and in that piece that we published on Buzz Flash, I asked the question why. |
| 1:05.4 | Why specifically had Donald Trump procrastinated for two months? |
| 1:08.9 | Now keep in mind that was in March. |
| 1:10.6 | We had our first case diagnosed on January 20th, as did South Korea. Same day, us in South Korea. |
| 1:17.0 | They've had a few hundred people die. Total. We've had 150,000 die. |
| 1:24.8 | They have crushed the curve, flattened the curve, |
| 1:27.9 | life is relatively normal again in South Korea, |
| 1:31.3 | not here. |
| 1:33.1 | So why did Trump initially procrastinate for two months? |
| 1:36.5 | You know, I asked this question back in March. |
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