Trump's latest smear campaign backfires as the man he cited to trash Biden corrects him in real time

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November 2, 2020
By Brad Reed

President Donald Trump tried to use Democratic rival Joe Biden’s own former chief of staff against him — and it completely blew up in his face.

In a tweet posted on Monday afternoon, Trump once again attacked Biden’s handling of the H1N1 virus, which killed 12,000 Americans in 2009, as a defense of his own handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic, which so far has killed more than 230,000 Americans in less than one year.

“Biden was a pathetic laughing stock all over Washington for the horrible way he handled the H1N1 Swine Flu,” the president wrote. “Even his own Chief of Staff said he didn’t know what he was doing!”

Ronald Klain, the man who served as Biden’s chief of staff during the spread of H1N1 throughout the United States, immediately chimed in on Twitter to correct Trump’s false claims.

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/trumps-latest-smear-campaign-backfires-as-the-man-he-cited-to-trash-biden-corrects-him-in-real-time/

[Blue Owl]

1. Triple K&R

[Chainfire]

2. Don't you just hate it when that happens. ;)

I had a right-winger tell me yesterday that H1N1 killed far more Americans, on Biden's watch, than Covid-19.

Brilliant!

[lagomorph777]

5. And...hello? Remember how many Americans were killed by Ebola? Was it 3?

It was a non-issue for most of us because it was handled correctly.

[AZ8theist]

10. Actually, I believe it was only 2. But watch the following video of the Trump Administration....

[ProfessorGAC]

13. It's Even Better!

This is from IDSociety.

Who died from Ebola in the US?
Two died – a Liberian visiting the United States and a doctor who had treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. Two American nurses contracted the disease while treating the Liberian patient, but both recovered. In other words, only two people have ever been infected with Ebola while on American soil and neither died.

There were no US citizens that died of it!

[Nitram]

23. Don't forget that during the Ebola scare, Trump demanded that all flights from Africa be banned.

Because...Africans are black, right?

[brush]

6. Most magats are really dump and just repeat disinformation they've heard...

on hate radio or from another magat.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. "dump" is appropriate -- they gobble up the disinformation and dump it everywhere they go

Rush and the Fascist Oligarch eXtremists puke the disinformation across the population and the Repukes take it in and spew it back, daily.

[jaxexpat]

11. It was worse than the Bowling Green massacre and I was there. I got scars.

But I shiver in a corner when I think about H1N1.

[Totally Tunsie]

12. Dang..."Biden's watch"?

They always forget Biden hasn't been president yet.

[Chainfire]

14. I haven't yet figured out which Biden is running for President

but I don't feel too bad about it because neither has our Commander in Chief.

[COL Mustard]

22. Don't Forget All The Unrest Under Biden

That took place this past summer!!!

[Grasswire2]

3. I am so comfortable knowing that Ron Klain might be Biden's chief of staff.

He's so solid. Thoughtful. Smart.

[SheltieLover]

4. K&R!

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

7. K & R

[gademocrat7]

8. K&R!

[rocktivity]

15. Well, if Trump thinks Klain is such a good judge of how incompetent someone is

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who are we to argue?


rocktivity

[ancianita]

16. The Internet and social media will be so under siege this won't be allowed to happen again,

if Trumpco gets 4 more years.

I'm so glad our side can smash every last damn tweet he attempts.

[Cha]

17. Rt.. TY catbyte!

[Cha]

18. End of story.. & oh yeah, Sean Connery

didn't help the Liar get the golf course, either.

[Acornsouth]

19. Oh, SNAP!

[onetexan]

20. LOL the only laughing stock the world over is the JOKER CON himself. I do not know how anyone can

vote for this crazed, shameless conman. Godwilling in less than 12 hours we will get rid of this clear & present danger to our country.

[Beartracks]

21. Dear Mr. Brad Reed: that should read "Trump's lies," not "Trump's false claims."

Tired of reporters pussyfooting around with such euphemisms for Trump's lying. n

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[BobTheSubgenius]

24. I watched a Keith Olbermann video a couple of days ago.

Throughout the diatribe, he repeatedly, and to the best of my recollection, invariably referred to "Piece Of Shit Trump."

This is an object lesson in why. I guess there is a small measure of forgiveness for this awful tweet, but not for the handling of the pandemic. After all, he is a very impulsive man, and really not very bright.

[maxsolomon]

25. Klain didn't refute Asshole's smear, though. Just attacked back.

I basically don't remember the H1N1, so Biden couldn't have been much of a laughing stock, in DC or in Washington State.