• Cosmos7349@lemmy.world
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    he continued. “For four years, things were good with President Trump. We had stable prices, a growing economy, peace and stability around the world.”

    the covid stuff doesn’t count

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      It’s horrifying to think that if not for COVID, he probably would have won a second term.

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        I he had promoted mask wearing and distancing, sold MAGA masks, called it a “war on Corona” and pushed the “American-made” vaccine, it would have been a landslide.

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          Remember Cuomo taking control of Covid leadership? It felt like everyone was watching him until it came out that he lied about the nursing home.

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        If not for COVID, the US would’ve entered a recession anyway but it might have been properly attributed to Trump. He was already badgering the Fed to lower interest rates in 2019, before the disease was even discovered, because of his disastrous tax handout for the wealthy and trade war with China.