‘We’re not going to control the pandemic’: White House chief’s comments undermine Trump’s message

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“We’re not going to control the pandemic,” White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union” today. “We are gonna control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigation areas.”

The Trump administration signaled on Sunday that it had given up on controlling the spread of the coronavirus, even as Covid-19 makes its second run through the White House, three in four Americans are concerned that they or someone they know will contract the disease, and millions of American families are suffering as negotiators struggle to clinch an elusive relief deal.

Nine days out from a critical election that will determine whether voters will “Keep America Great” by reelecting Trump or “Build Back Better” by promoting former Vice President Joe Biden, the coronavirus is dominating the presidential campaign. In the upper chamber, senators and aides alike wear masks and practice social distancing. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , in particular, has been encouraging such measures, and he recently said he has not entered the White House complex since August because of the lax adherence to public health guidelines.

Instead, Meadows was constantly confronting questions about the coronavirus, including how many staffers inside the White House have tested positive or reported symptoms over the last week, why he sought to conceal that information from the public and why the U.S. won’t get control of the spread. Covid-19 has now killed more than 224,000 people in the U.S. and infected more than 8.5 million Americans, including some inside the White House.

Vice President Mike Pence’s office announced on Saturday that chief of staff Marc Short tested positive for Covid-19. Pence’s office said both he and second lady Karen Pence had tested negative.

 

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cltomlinson He's not totally wrong. '[The virus] can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever'. What we can control is our own response, but that requires coordination, commitment and cooperation.

Trump killed his white house staff then pretended that he has it when we all know hes a liar .Hes never had anything but paranoia and charges of sexual assault

He just admitted trump has not once ever had a plan for this pandemic.

Sure we will. When Trump and MarkMeadows are sent packing and we have competent leadership again.

Right it down. Go to the tape. The WH doesn’t give a Flip about protecting Americans or fighting COVID. Trump is tired of hearing about it. Would rather have a giant plane crash.

That’s their way of saying we don’t know what the fck we’re doing..... EVER!!

TrumpSurrendered

I like administrations that don’t fold like a cheap suit when challenged

Meadows is arguing semantics as people die.

Pretty on point for current POTUS....

Quitters!

Trump knows he is going to lose so he is doing everything he can to leave a mess for Joe. This way Trump can say if he were re-elected things would be better. Trump wants COVID to spread so it drags the economy down and he does not care how many people die

So, they have given up on trying to control Corvid 19, which flies in the face of shutting down the economy in the first place and the White House/CDC guidelines. Why start something that they were incapable of seeing it through? Everything they did exacerbated the problem.

The comments come as Covid-19 makes its second run through the W.H., 3 in 4 Americans are concerned that they or someone they know will contract the disease, and millions of families are suffering as negotiators struggle to clinch an elusive relief deal

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