Thinks President should have been more involved in negotiations
Another day, another outrage.
President Trump took no active role in the feverish negotiations to finally, finally arrive at another Covid-19 relief bill, months in the making. Yet, after all the considerable effort the past week not to mention the money in salaries paid, etc., we learn the President had a video slamming the bill — no matter how it turned out — in his pocket the whole time, one in which threatened a veto instead of a signature. This he thoughtfully released by tweet after everyone thought the deal was complete and everyone in Congress had gone home for the holidays. Sure, he was trying to get Congress to cut loose with more money for struggling families and small businesses but wouldn’t it have been better to voice this opinion through active involvement beforehand?
I challenge his supporters to explain how this behavior makes sense. And don’t even get me started on his list of pardons. He’s fine with blowing up the long-sought help for struggling American families and potentially shutting down the government as well (distribution of both vaccines just one of the countless things put on hold in that case).
Even more stunning is the fact that this President is either careless or clueless about the horrible near-Christmas-Eve optics of simultaneously handing huge gifts to ethics-free family and political pals on his way out the door to Mar-a-Lago
But why should we be surprised with the Presidential bull still loose in the national china shop..
Paul Mack
Columbus
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