Law Profs Drag Sen. McConnell for ‘Nonsense’ Claim That Impeachment Kept Trump from Focusing on COVI

[tulc]

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Law Profs Drag Sen. McConnell for ‘Nonsense’ Claim That Impeachment Kept Trump from Focusing on COVID-19

Law Profs Drag Sen. McConnell for ‘Nonsense’ Claim That Impeachment Kept Trump from Focusing on COVID-19

McConnell’s argument sparked immediate backlash from law professors, several of whom noted that the actual timeline of the government’s response to the pandemic belied McConnell’s claims, which appeared to suggest that Trump was incapable of concentrating on more than one thing at a time.

“Trump was acquitted by the Senate on February 5—but didn’t declare a national emergency to address COVID-19 until March 13,” professor Stephen Vladeck of the University of Texas School of Law wrote. “Even accepting this nonsense argument (Presidents can’t do two things at once??), that’s *37 days* after acquittal without any meaningful federal action.”

tulc(is drinking his coffee, watching things unfold)

 

[FenderTL5]

Trump was so distracted by impeachment that he was unable to hold six campaign rallies nor had time to golf at his West Palm Beach property on three separate occasions during that span of February 5 to March 13.
Wait, he did those things?

 

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Law Profs Drag Sen. McConnell for ‘Nonsense’ Claim That Impeachment Kept Trump from Focusing on COVID-19

tulc(is drinking his coffee, watching things unfold)

It is very surprising and should be embarrassing for the school that employs him and the school(s) that educated him that a law professor does not know the difference between the government and the President.

 

[tulc]

It is very surprising and should be embarrassing r for the school that employs him and the school(s) that educated him that a law professor does not know the difference between the government and the President.

...according to Sen. McConnell there apparently isn't any. According to him, if the President is "distracted" so is the rest of the government.
tulc(just a thought)

 

[grasping the after wind]

...according to Sen. McConnell there apparently isn't any. According to him, if the President is "distracted" so is the rest of the government.
tulc(just a thought)

Source?

 

[tulc]

Source?

uhmmm...the links in the OP?
tulc(just a thought)

 

[grasping the after wind]

uhmmm...the links in the OP?
tulc(just a thought)

Looked at it again and again I did not see McConnell equate the government with the President . Perhaps you could quote the exact words in which he said the government and the President were one and the same thing?

 

[Sistrin]

And yet more sour grapes.

 

[tulc]

Looked at it again and again I did not see McConnell equate the government with the President . Perhaps you could quote the exact words in which he said the government and the President were one and the same thing?

Okay here's a couple of things to remember there are 435 Representatives, 100 Senators and the entirety of the Executive branch. Of all those people only one of them was being indictmented. The President. Yet of all those hundreds of people none of them could pay any attention to the growing pandemic because of it. Now to me? That sounds like he's saying the President was the only thing that mattered then, so how is that different from the President being the government?

McConnell claimed that the government’s attention was too focused on the impeachment proceedings to properly heed warnings about the impending threat

and remember, even after the Republicans let the President off:

“Trump was acquitted by the Senate on February 5—but didn’t declare a national emergency to address COVID-19 until March 13,” professor Stephen Vladeck of the University of Texas School of Law wrote. “Even accepting this nonsense argument (Presidents can’t do two things at once??), that’s *37 days* after acquittal without any meaningful federal action.”

So while the President (and his defense team in the Senate) were taking victory laps, the virus was spreading. Why? Because to the Republicans, the President is the government.
tulc(and has been pretty much from his first day in office)