In an interview Friday on The Washington Post’s “Cape Up” podcast, former national security adviser Susan Rice aggressively pushed what is becoming the Democrats’ principal election Narrative: that President Trump’s “utter incompetence” is killing “tens of thousands” of Americans during the coronavirus pandemic.
Rice claimed falsely that the Trump administration “wasted two months” to take action to contain the coronavirus, “and those two months have meant the difference between many tens of thousands of Americans dying who might otherwise not have died.”
She continued, “He has demonstrated utter lack of leadership, utter incompetence. And he’s been profoundly dishonest about the nature of the threat to the American people by downplaying it, by dismissing it, by you know comparing it to the flu and having his senior officials do the same, having Fox News do the same. He has misled the American people to such an extent that lives have been lost in the process.”
Rice, not Trump, is the one misleading Americans.