Prior to Blaming Trump, Video Surfaces of Pelosi Encouraging Crowds to Gather In Chinatown Despite Coronavirus Fears

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According to a report from the Western Journal, Pelosi criticized Trump for his alleged inaction in the coronavirus.

“@SpeakerPelosi says the President downplaying the severity of #coronavirus is ‘deadly.’”

“As the President fiddles, people are dying. We just have to take every precaution.”

“What the president — his denial at the beginning was deadly,” Pelosi said to CNN’s Jake Tapper during an interview.

“His delaying of getting equipment to where — it continues — his delay in getting equipment to where it’s needed is deadly.”

Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi lead a crowd of people in Chinatown, San Francisco.

“It’s exciting to be here, especially at this time, to be able to be unified with our community,” the House speaker said.

“We want to be vigilant about what is out there in other places. We want to be careful about how we deal with it, but we do want to say to people, ‘Come to Chinatown, here we are — we’re, again, careful, safe — and come join us.’”

Pelosi was holding hands, shaking hands, urging more people to come to crowd the streets of Chinatown.

As of Thursday afternoon, San Francisco had 434 confirmed cases and seven deaths from COVID-19 and California was close to 10,000 total infections, according to Johns Hopkins.

“President Trump didn’t take Coronavirus seriously? He restricted Travel with China in January and emphasized that he was taking action against it at the State of the Union in February,” ALX said in a tweet. “Democrats were focused on Impeachment and Speaker Pelosi was still playing partisan games.”

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Commentary and Opinion from The Western Journal:

Pelosi’s buddies in the media were piling on too, probably thinking they smelled blood in the water now that the coronavirus death toll could reach hundreds of thousands of Americans.

Responding to the news briefing Tuesday in which the White House coronavirus task force projected as many as 200,000 deaths, Joe Scarborough of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” claimed, “That is actually the briefing the intel community begged Donald Trump to give in January and February. They saw this coming.”

It’s wonderful how suddenly (or, more accurately, retroactively) these folks are sounding the alarm bells now that the data are coming in rather than having to figure it out beforehand.

The Trump administration responded to the crisis as it unfolded in exactly the way any leader is expected and able to do.

Had he shut down the country in February when Madame Speaker was busying herself on a public relations tour through San Francisco, he would have been excoriated and accused of manufacturing a crisis.

But while Trump and his administration work hard mobilize every effort necessary to fight the pandemic, Pelosi and the establishment media will do everything in their power to sit back and criticize that he’s not doing enough.

So, it’s the president who isn’t taking coronavirus seriously? It seems that Nero fiddling while Rome burned is more akin to Pelosi “pressing the flesh” and urging visitors to pour into Chinatown even as the body bags were piling up in China.