Thread by @Lonestarmomcom

Mute now if uninterested in a few gem quotes from #IALONECANFIXIT by @CarolLeonnig @PhilipRucker

First one:

“‘What’s a coronavirus?’ Trump asked.”

January 2020:

“We need to bring a czar in, like Ron Klain was for Ebola,”

#IALONECANFIXIT

*Narrator says: “If only…

“As Fauci spoke, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro was incredulous.” 😐

#IALONECANFIXIT

“You don’t know who did it,” Mulvaney said. “Everyone leaks here.”

#IALONECANFIXIT

#WHWhatAMess

Jan 31: “Short rolled his eyes and scoffed at her. ‘Can you believe this?’ he said, looking at Pence. ‘There’s no way,’ Pence said.”

#IALONECANFIXIT
#ChinaTravelBan
#WHWhatAMess

“…around the time of Trump’s acquittal, his job approval rating in the Gallup daily tracking average reached 49 percent, its highest measure in his entire presidency.” Other polls confirmed this.

Pelosi was right, huh? #IALONECANFIXIT

At a black-tie dinner,
“Pence turned slightly red in the face and shook his head. Ever loyal to Trump, the vice president appeared to be searching for words and quickly changed the subject.

#IALONECANFIXI

“Furious that his reputation was taking a beating, Barr knew he could not change the minds of the Stone prosecutors, but he was determined to establish for the record that the president wasn’t pulling his strings.

#IALONECANFIXIT

“Nobody’s answering our calls.”

He put in calls to Trump and Pence, and even tried to track down a private number for Melania Trump, hoping to scare them into action on the virus, but had no luck.”

#IALONECANFIXIT

#WHWhatAMess

“Short and Miller tightly controlled which task-force members could speak to the media and what they would say, though they did not see their actions as muzzling experts.

#IALONECANFIXIT

#WHWhatAMess

👀”Listen, you have to follow the law,but you gotta do something to show the president we’re making therapies available. The media is showing all these people being cured from these therapies. Even zinc. We should approve all these products that media say work.” #IAloneCanFixIt

“‘Jared, what do you think?the vice president asked. ‘Jared, what would you do?’ One attendee said it was ‘nauseating’to watch Pence defer to Kushner, considering only one of them actually had been elected by the American people.

#IAloneCanFixIt

Mid March-testing

“Fauci & Redfield told the lawmakers, only about eleven thousand Americans had been tested for coronavirus in the first seven weeks of the outbreak. That was less than the roughly twenty thousand tests South Korea was then conducting daily.

#IALONECANFIXIT

It’s a wonder we’re not all dead. 🙁

“Larry Ellison called me. He tells me remdesivir works,” Trump said. “So get the FDA
to approve it today. And Laura says chloroquine works as a cure. So the FDA has to approve it also.” 😳
(Laura as in Ingraham)
#IALONECANFIXIT

Fake medical model re: Covid projections-

“It was embraced by Kushner and guided the mindset inside the White House to prioritize the economy over public health.”

#IAloneCanFixIt

.@GOPLeader: FBI caused #Jan6.

Familiar?👇🏼

“It’s Fauci’s fault…China’s fault…Obama’s fault. It’s always someone else, somewhere else. He doesn’t want to hear bad news. He doesn’t take responsibility for bad news/wants to gloss over it/change the subject.” #IAloneCanFixIt

#Hydroxychloroquine

“If he wasn’t the president, they noted, he could be prosecuted for off-label promotion of a drug—pushing a medicine for an unauthorized and not fully tested use.”

#IAloneCanFixIt

Those who said DT blew his re-election chances in 2020: Parscale, Kushner, Barr,
L. Graham

While….

“blasts over night sky bore president’s name, T-R-U-M-P….The power was his. He didn’t plan to relinquish it. It would have to be taken from him.”

#IAloneCanFixIt

Labor Day 2020 Election polling:

“It was not a pretty picture. Biden had the lead in the electoral college and Trump was behind in many key states…The president was in serious trouble.

People aware: Fabrizio, Stepien, Jason Miller, Clark, (and prob also Conway)

Early voting #Election2020
Mid October:

“Kushner observed, ‘The Republicans have hardly voted.’”

#IAloneCanFixIt #RiggedMyFoot

Early on, Trump’s staff knew he would lose #Election2020!

“Trump’s aides watched the [Dem early voting attendance numbers] trend with considerable alarm.”

#IAloneCanFixIt
#Election2020
#RiggedMyFoot

As spoken by staff/after Walter Reed /Oct 2020:

“We’re not losing because people don’t think he’s strong enough. We’re losing because people think he doesn’t give a shit about them or anything but himself at this point.”

#IAloneCanFixIt
#Election2020
#RiggedMyFoot

Early voting AZ Oct 2020:

“With early voting in Arizona well under way, Democrats were recording a massive lead in Maricopa County…”

#IAloneCanFixIt
#Election2020
#RiggedMyFoot
#ArizonaAudit