I’m honestly still kinda stunned NYT, along w/ WP, ABC News, tried to do this after 500,000 died on Trump’s watch; pressrun.media/p/good-grief-n…
“Under Trump, the U.S. vaccine rollout was seen as a national embarrassment. Under Biden, it’s become a model for the world, administering nearly 100 million shots.”
“And now the Covid relief bill, which Trump and Republicans failed to pass for ten months, will pump billions into helping communities nationwide vaccinate.”
“There was a remarkable scene from Friday's press briefing where a reporter from NBC News asked why Biden had not credited Trump — under whose watch 500,000 Americans died — as a way to "bring all Americans together."”
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“Under Trump, the U.S. vaccine rollout was seen as a national embarrassment. Under Biden, it’s become a model for the world, administering nearly 100 million shots.”
this isn’t rocket science, folks
“Denying states money. Boasting about a medicine stockpile that didn’t exist. That’s the ugly Trump record on his dismal attempt to help vaccine Americans. No amount of media whitewashing will change that.”
“there's a self-serving angle to the media's clamoring about a press conference, which journalists glorify as being the pinnacle of presidential communications.” pressrun.media/p/does-biden-o…
“It's odd that the media let Trump lie his way through solo press conferences and now are demanding Biden hold one because that's where presidents are held accountable by the media.”
“It’s hard to miss how CNN is pressing Biden to hold formal Q&A in the name of access. Yet CNN pulled the plug on Biden WH daily press briefings just 4 wks into the Dem's term. This, after feasting on Trump WH press briefings, airing them live and in their entirety, for 4 yrs"
“The media hand-wringing seems a bit over the top. Is the press conference issue being raised because there's a larger sense that the Biden has curtailed media access or is trying to hide what his team is doing?
No.”
“Meanwhile, there are no current scandals Biden is trying avoid. If anything, his press conference might end up resembling a victory lap”
Biden abt to sign landmark, historic Covid relief bill, arguably the most sweeping, important first bill for any new president in US history....and WP goes w/ Dems in Disarray