As President Trump was putting together the Wuhan Coronavirus task force in January, House Speaker Pelosi focused on his removal from office.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) appeared on Jake Tapper’s State of the Union program on Sunday to talk about President Trump’s efforts at combating the Wuhan Coronavirus outbreak so far.

Not surprisingly, Pelosi didn’t have anything good to say. She took the opportunity presented by the CNN host to accuse Trump of “fiddling” as people are dying:

“The president, his denial at the beginning was deadly,” she told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “His delaying of getting equipment to where it continued — his continued delay in getting equipment to where it’s needed is deadly. Now the best thing to do would be to prevent more loss of life rather than open things up, because we just don’t know.” Tapper asked: “Are you saying his downplaying ultimately cost American lives?” “Yes, I am,” Pelosi replied. Pelosi also hinted there would be an investigation into the administration’s handling of the pandemic once things go back to normal. “I don’t know what the scientists said to him,” Pelosi stated. “When did this president know about this, and what did he know? What did he know and when did he know it? That’s for an after-action review.” “But as the president fiddles, people are dying. We just have to take every precaution.”

Watch:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the President downplaying the severity of coronavirus is “deadly." “As the President fiddles, people are dying. We just have to take every precaution.” #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/nZCmCB12jG — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 29, 2020

In response, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called what Pelosi said “the most shameful, disgusting statement by any politician in modern history.”

What Pelosi basically stated is that the Trump administration’s handling of the Wuhan Coronavirus crisis will be the Democrats’ new impeachment. This is rather interesting when you consider the House and Senate Democrats’ obsession with Trump’s impeachment and removal was ramping up as the president was forming the Wuhan Coronavirus task force and putting travel restrictions on China in January.

Several Republicans were quick to point this out:

When @realDonaldTrump formed the Wuhan #coronavirus task force in, Nancy Pelosi was passing out her impeachment pens. pic.twitter.com/VhAt8RxB0x — Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) March 30, 2020

Nancy Pelosi is accusing Trump of not responding fast enough to the Chinese coronavirus. This is the same person that fiddled around with a sham impeachment* that wasted valuable time… You’re not fooling anyone, Nancy. — Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) March 29, 2020

Criticism and finger pointing are not the hallmarks of great leadership. In January the President was establishing a task force and re-routing flights, while house leaders were busy prosecuting impeachment… When united we are undefeated. CA49

https://t.co/SeGuVaKpw0 — Brian L. Maryott (@brianlmaryott) March 30, 2020

January 31, 2020: – President Trump restricted travel with China. – Nancy Pelosi was still caught up with Impeachment. https://t.co/xS5vFnfCOI — Benny (@bennyjohnson) March 29, 2020

Friendly Reminder: What was Nancy Pelosi doing while President Trump was assembling his CV task force? Giggling and grinning as she passed out gold impeachment pens from silver platters

pic.twitter.com/Ng7SQRocPy — Red Nation Rising (@RedNationRising) March 30, 2020

Earlier this month, GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel put together a whole thread detailing what the Trump administration was doing while Democrats focused on ousting him from office:

JAN 21: The CDC activated its emergency operations center to provide ongoing support to confront coronavirus. What were Congressional Democrats focused on? Writing their opening arguments for their bogus impeachment trial. (2/8) — Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) March 11, 2020

JAN 27: A tale of 2 press conferences.@Mike_Pence outlined the administration’s efforts to work with China to counter coronavirus. Chuck Schumer demanded that more time be wasted with new impeachment witnesses. (3/8) — Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) March 11, 2020

JAN 31:@realDonaldTrump initiated travel restrictions from China, which the experts have praised as a critical decision to slow the spread of coronavirus. Democrat leaders called him “xenophobic” and “racist.” (4/8) — Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) March 11, 2020

FEB 9: The Trump administration’s Coronavirus Task Force met with governors to coordinate response efforts. Chuck Schumer was busy soliciting inspectors general to open NEW investigations into @realDonaldTrump. (5/8) — Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) March 11, 2020

FEB 24:@realDonaldTrump requested additional funding to fight the coronavirus. Democrat Jerry Nadler demanded more documents from AG Barr to continue his political vendetta against the Trump administration. (6/8) — Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) March 11, 2020

MAR 2: The Trump administration secured commitments from top pharmaceutical companies to develop a vaccine to fight coronavirus. Democrats began “quietly discussing moving ahead with punishments for individuals who defied subpoenas” in the impeachment sham. (7/8) — Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) March 11, 2020

BOTTOM LINE: While @realDonaldTrump and his administration have been focused on protecting YOU, Democrats in Congress have been focused on attacking HIM! (8/8) — Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) March 11, 2020

Joel Pollack also put together a detailed timeline a couple of weeks ago of the Democrats’ actions in January as the virus was spreading in China and beyond, and as WHO and the Trump administration were warning of the virus’s spread.

If Pelosi does push forth with that “after-action review” once the worst of the Wuhan Coronavirus is (hopefully) behind us, expect continued pushback from Republicans who will return the favor to her in kind.

— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —



