Cuomo had to go outside the state to get respirators.
What state did he have to go to and why would it matter? He had to go to companies that made respirators. Can you where those companies are? The fact is that you don't know if those companies were out of state or in NY state. In or out of state, Cuomo had to deal with the company and what they could provide and the prices they wanted to charge.
So, please provide your proof that he "had to go outside the state to get respirators". Or don't, and let your silence confirm that you were wrong to say so.
It's a good thing Trump was there to bail him out huh? If he wasn't you guys might have something to complain about.
Trump didn't bail him out. What Trump did was sit by and do nothing, ignorant about the situation, while allowing companies to let all the states' governors enter into a bidding war against each other.... AND allowing FEMA, under his authority, to ALSO enter that bidding war AGAINST NY and other states.
What Cuomo then had to do was go public and explain the idiocy of what Trump was allowing to happen under his watch and how Trump was not helping the people of the country but instead helping private business people line their pockets at the expense of US citizens' health and lives.
Watch Cuomo here and learn as he educates everyone on the ridiculous situation that came about from Trump's gross negligence (at best):
But you got what you needed didn't you. And you are still whining about it. Rewriting history.
The articles I posted told the truth. But you want to re-write history about it.
You're the one rewriting history and posting propaganda articles that are made of pure speculation and opinion. Everyone can watch Cuomo in the clip I provided above and hear his own words and judge for themselves.
Your regurgitation of others' rewritten history isn't fooling anyone.
And now other states are seeing increases just as predicted when they opened up, because they were lower before now they are climbing.
Show me where those states predicted these increases. I'll wait... (but I won't hold my breath)
So while NY was climbing as well as other blue states were you just blamed Trump instead of the state.
Of course, absolutely. Trump was bumbling and absent, making jokes, telling everyone that it was under control, would go from 15 cases to zero, would be gone by April, then by Easter, and "one day you wake up and it's gone, it's like a miracle", blah blah blah blah blah...
And while Trump was doing that, Cuomo got on TV every day, provided the facts, provided the numbers, provided the strategy and updates/changes to the strategy as each day they learned more. Cuomo provided this to NY but the entire nation watched him and learned from him. He explained the facts, explained his responses, explained that there were unknowns and things would change, and he provided the hard truth while also offering some comfort and hope.
So yeah, we blamed Trump for his negligence and failure while giving credit to Cuomo for rising up to the challenge of leading NY and de facto the entire nation on everything to do with coronavirus.
Now red states are climbing and you want to bapme Trump AND the state.
Absolutely! Trump and those states' governors ALL had an example to follow, mistakes to learn from, and a couple more months to deal with the coronavirus pandemic and instead the governors decided to do what fit their politics and reopen their economies at top speed while the White House backed them (and they boasted that the White House backed them). Pretty obvious that Trump AND the governors of those states are to blame.
When your state was suffering you demanded help from Trump and didn't blame anyone else. Now you want to blame the states?
Show me what my state's governor is to blame for and I'll be happy to blame him. But he didn't get the cooperation from the Federal government without a strugle and fight (if even at all) and he barely had federal guidance or coordination of efforts with the nation. Instead, our state's governor had to coordinate directly with neighboring states, had to struggle and implore Trump to just do his basic job to help our citizens.
Now the governors who sat around doing nothing to prevent the spread of coronavirus in their states and in fact did things to ENDANGER their states are seeing the results of their foolish actions. Why should I have any sympathy or empathy for them when they did completely foolish things to endanger their people??? No, instead of empathy there is nothing but blame for them. They don't benefit from any excuses the governors of states like NY and NJ have because they had it much easier and still CHOSE foolish behaviors and attitudes to mess up their states.
Where was the blame for your state when it was going on? Hmmm?
The blame was clearly with the federal government. Show me otherwise if you can (but we all know you can't, except with your revised history).
It's a good thing Trump was around to give you that ship and the respirators. Otherwise your states bungle would have been much worse.
Trump OWED us that ship. That is OUR ship. Trump and the Federal government OWE NY and NJ whatever we demand from them. Giving us anything is the bare minimum that they owe to us. We have paid for it countless times over. We are the driver of the economy of the nation. From a moral perspective it is owed to us just for the saving of American lives here. Everything we got from Trump had to be pulled from him, like pulling teeth. We succeeded because of our Democratic governors and in SPITE of Trump's failure. Our governors are so incredible that they were able to exert control over Trump just enough to get just what we needed.
At one point, the Republicans tried to stiff NY and NJ and so we had to fight that also. Cuomo did a great job, again going public to explain how Mitch McConnell is being divisive and is wrong, how NY does not "get bailed out" but actually has been bailing out McConnell's Kentucky and other red states for decades. It is that leadership by Cuomo that kept the Republicans in check and forced them to do what they are supposed to do instead of lying and cheating American citizens.
Now Trump's own fellow Republican governors are suffering because they chose to believe and follow his foolish advice to put the economy ahead of people.
To be honest, I don't know why those Republican governors are backpedaling now. Why masks all of a sudden? Why closures of bars and stores??? If these things work, why didn't they do it earlier to avoid the crisis they are in now? And if they didn't do those things because they don't believe they work then why do those things now??? We all know why... They went political, they did the wrong thing, now they're scared and panicking and scrambling because the next stage for them is a number of deaths that even their duped constituents will no longer tolerate.
