It’s become strikingly clear over the last few days to weeks that Donald Trump has dropped the ball when it comes to his response, or lack thereof, to the novel coronavirus currently sweeping across the nation. I mean, honestly, he drops the ball when it comes to pretty much everything. But this time it’s deadly so frankly, this particular ball is a hell of a lot more noticeable than his inability to get a proper spray tan.
What makes this situation even more unique is the fact that Donald knows he’s effectively shit the proverbial bed. The stock market is crashing at an alarming rate, his chances at reelection are slipping away so rapidly that Mitch McConnell is trying to make backdoor deals in an attempt to make sure the GOP can hold on to some sort of power once a Democrat is in office, and the coronavirus that he was referring to as little more than a “seasonal flu” is spreading like wildfire, taking hundreds of lives.
It’s safe to say that Donald is doing his best to do as much damage control as possible to get a handle on the dumpster fire that is the United States right now before he signs his presidency’s death certificate once and for all.
According to a bombshell report from the New York Times, the Trump administration has now taken to asking state officials to keep their unemployment numbers hush-hush as the economy continues to take a nosedive due mostly in part to Trump’s less-than-satisfactory response to COVID-19.
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Trump’s Labor Department issued an email yesterday directing state officials to only “provide information using generalities to describe claims levels (very high, large increase)” until the department released total numbers next week.
The email, obtained by the Times, notes that financial markets were closely monitoring the reports, therefore there was no need for a public release.
The administrator of the department’s Office of Employment Insurance, Gay Gilbert, wrote, “States should not provide numeric values to the public.”
Several states on the receiving end of the email were quite disturbed by its contents, with at least one governor’s office anonymously contacting their state’s attorney general to determine if they were legally required to embargo the information.
As noted by the Times, “The federal numbers released Thursday morning were already alarming: 281,000 people nationwide applied for unemployment insurance last week, up from 211,000 the previous week. They were apparently only a grim preview of what is to come.”
Trump can hide his screw up all he likes, but he’s only ultimately delaying the inevitable. The truth will come out sooner or later and Donald’s time is all but up after this.
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