‘No way to spin that’: Mitt Romney
blames Trump administration for
surge in US coronavirus deaths
Independent (UK),
by
Derek Hawkins
&
Marisa Iati
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
8/16/2020 2:35:23 PM
Senator Mitt Romney, R-Utah, offered rare Republican criticism of the Trump administration’s coronavirus response on Friday, saying the federal government dismissed the virus’s threat and failed to protect Americans as infections spiralled out of control. “Short term, I think it’s fair to say we really have not distinguished ourselves in a positive way by how we responded to the crisis when it was upon us,” Mr Romney said in a video interview with the Sutherland Institute. “And the proof of the pudding of that is simply that we have 5 per cent of the world’s population but 25 per cent of the world’s deaths due to Covid-19.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Daisymay 8/16/2020 2:39:27 PM (No. 511978)
Could you folks in Utah shut this Jackass up? He gives Republicans a bad name! PULEEZE do not re-elect him if he runs again! We need REAL Republicans in Congress!
96 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 8/16/2020 2:42:41 PM (No. 511981)
BS, as usual for this hateful idiot.
States control their health care systems and laws.
The Feds advise.
78 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
justavoter 8/16/2020 2:42:57 PM (No. 511982)
This statement by Mittens is a testament to how stupid the voting electorate in Utah has become. 3/4 ths of the world population never travel outside of a few miles of where they were born. WE live in the most mobile country on the planet and is more prone to spreading viruses. Furthermore, when President Trump was sounding the alarms and shutting down travel it was Mittens and his fellow travelers that was saying President Trump was racist, and bigoted for shutting down travel.
Go stuff it Mittens.
97 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
italianlooks 8/16/2020 2:43:29 PM (No. 511983)
I say this is the natural historic death rate.. recent history of total daily death rate in the United States for all deaths is about 8880 daily! All causes!
It is strange we are getting daily Covid-19 death rate, but not the total unvarnished daily death rate! It cannot be found!
I say this my wife died 4/17/2020, from natural causes, which included vascular dementia not covid-19 except, isolation and a broken heart from lockdown! Collateral damage!
Where is the national unvarnished death rate!
Why has the CDC etc not published this?
Emmmm
67 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ben Around 8/16/2020 2:45:47 PM (No. 511988)
From an ass that made his dog ride on top of the car and wanted his employees to get sick and die.
39 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 8/16/2020 2:47:42 PM (No. 511989)
There's no need to spin it. The China virus death rate has been inflated for political and financial reasons. Hospitals get extra money for coding a death as "Covid related" no matter the actual cause. And, of course, Democrats want to keep it high to justify their Fascist takeover of the country and to have a reason for vote by mail ballot harvesting.
60 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/16/2020 2:47:58 PM (No. 511990)
FTA; ...rare Republican criticism...! Criticism of the President is all this whiney, sore loser has!
55 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
sternben 8/16/2020 2:48:13 PM (No. 511991)
Romney should ride on the roof with his dog.
44 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
mathman 8/16/2020 2:50:55 PM (No. 511995)
Correction.
This is a RINO from MA.
Not a republican.
This your Deep State rep.
He knows nothing.
43 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
ScottC 8/16/2020 2:52:27 PM (No. 511996)
I'm curious as to why you members of the Republican party have not demanded that Mitt Romney is kicked out of your party yet?
43 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/16/2020 2:55:28 PM (No. 512000)
Yoda would say, "The stupid runs deep in this party!"
22 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/16/2020 2:57:54 PM (No. 512002)
Romney is a globalist class investor rat who has no problem sending American jobs overseas to low wage countries and massively importing foreign low wage workers to take American jobs. Romney is thinking about running for President in 2024 as a RINO, but no Trump supporter, that constitutes most Republicans, would ever vote to nominate him.
38 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
droopydog 8/16/2020 3:03:21 PM (No. 512008)
I hate him.
44 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/16/2020 3:05:38 PM (No. 512011)
Biden missed his big opportunity by not choosing Peter Delicious as his veep.
22 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 8/16/2020 3:05:44 PM (No. 512012)
Romney lying, straight out.
31 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/16/2020 3:18:19 PM (No. 512020)
Snarky snotty snob. Did he get a medical degree at Bain Capital where he kept notebooks full of female employee names? I can't believe I ever once thought of voting for this slick-haired used car salesman!
28 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
msjena 8/16/2020 3:18:57 PM (No. 512021)
The true death rate won't be known until the virus is gone. And maybe never, because worldwide reporting is probably not very reliable.
21 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Refried 8/16/2020 3:26:10 PM (No. 512024)
Romney is as tiresome as Maxine Waters.
36 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
or gate 8/16/2020 3:33:44 PM (No. 512032)
How can that moron help the mormon cause?
12 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
zuker5 8/16/2020 3:35:10 PM (No. 512034)
How much is China paying this guy?
25 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 8/16/2020 3:35:28 PM (No. 512035)
I’m guessin’ that Snitt’s daily to-do calendar reads something like the old Far Side’s Tyrannosaurus Rex’s, “Say something oleo-gelatinously stupid and call the Press.”
14 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
rockeysroomie 8/16/2020 3:42:39 PM (No. 512041)
Mitt Romney, one jealous man.
22 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
AlpineLace 8/16/2020 3:47:58 PM (No. 512045)
Mittens criticizing Trump is not rare, it is his norm.
18 people like this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
AmericaYes 8/16/2020 3:51:06 PM (No. 512048)
The country is fortunate that Romney-Ryan lost in 2012. They would have been as bad or worse than Obama-Biden. They would have given us Hillary in 2016
23 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
IdahoJoe 8/16/2020 3:51:27 PM (No. 512049)
Some of us in Utah can't stand him either. I voted for his competitor at the Republican Utah convention, but enough of my colleagues were duped by him that he was allowed to claim that he had enough delegates AND he had enough signatures to get into the primary (either method works in Utah). I went to his campaign events, and he liked to sneak in the word that he might agree with Trump most of the time, but he was not going to be Trump's Yes-Man. He never disclosed that he would be a never-Trumper.
22 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
Rather Read 8/16/2020 4:01:53 PM (No. 512057)
Does this dummy not know that the Governors set the policy for each state?
I regret voting for you, Mitt Romney.
21 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
SALady 8/16/2020 4:03:45 PM (No. 512058)
Romney is clearly positioning himself to be the token "Republican" in a Biden cabinet.
When you look up RINO in the dictionary, there are just pictures of McCain and Romney. You don't need in any other words.
16 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 8/16/2020 4:09:48 PM (No. 512063)
'offered rare Republican criticism of the Trump administration'
Rare? Really? Pierre the fake Republican criticizes Trump at every opportunity.
17 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
valinva 8/16/2020 4:12:18 PM (No. 512068)
Someone needs to tell Pierre Detesto that NY and NJ have .43% (that's less than 1/2 a percent) of the world's population but have 6.33% of the world corona virus deaths. And someone also needs to help Mr Detesto with his math. If you actually believe the statistics, the US has 22.3% of the deaths. Does anyone except for Pierre the Pious actually believe that China has only 85.000 cases of Corona Virus and 4.634 deaths? If he does he's even dumber than I thought.
13 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
Polecat49 8/16/2020 4:14:52 PM (No. 512072)
POOR, POOR, POOR little mitt trying to act relevant when he is just plain STUPID. He is and has ALEAYS been a poor excuse for a human being. BUT pretty good as a demoncRAT MOLE.
13 people like this.
Poor, poor Mittens...how difficult life must be for him having to live in the shadow of the late, not-so-great, John McCaint.
10 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
chumley 8/16/2020 4:52:59 PM (No. 512097)
I'm glad my vote meant nothing and Obama won. As big a disaster as Zero was, at least we all knew what he was going into it. Romney is a fake at everything he pretends to stand for.
9 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
Safari Man 8/16/2020 4:59:20 PM (No. 512101)
Romney is worse than McCain. McCain wasn’t simply looking for ways to back stab, it’s just what he did. Romney is aggressively looking for ways to stab all our backs as often and as deep as possible, then he twists the knife,
12 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/16/2020 5:04:55 PM (No. 512108)
Mitty, garbage in, garbage out.
Don't need to spin it.
The statistics you're referring to can't be trusted and neither can you.
14 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
MorningStar 8/16/2020 5:35:02 PM (No. 512119)
Since I DON'T trust Mittens, or Pierre Delecto, I binged his faulty statistics, and BINGO!! I found his mistake. In his unbridled zeal to criticize PDJT, he misread or was unable to process the actual wording to the true interpretation of the representative statistics. Perhaps, he, along with Slow JOE could use a cognitive exam, since cases does not correlate with the number of covid deaths,, just those that tested positive, either asymptomatic or with symptoms.
"The US has 4% of the world's population but 25% of its corona CASES" (notice it's NOT DEATHS). The US conducts the MOST CORONA tests in the world. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/health/us-coronavirus-toll-in-numbers-june-trnd Jun 30, 2020 · The US has 4% of the world's population but 25% of its coronavirus cases - CNN.
7 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
snapper451 8/16/2020 5:35:56 PM (No. 512120)
Mittens / Pierre Delecto is still holding out hope that the Republican convention will (in his mind) come to their senses and nominate him next week. What other reason could there be? The man has become as despicable as the Democrat haters that are given a voice on Fox News.
8 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
Mauigirl 8/16/2020 5:40:13 PM (No. 512123)
Condolences to #4 for the recent loss of your spouse.
21 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
czechlist 8/16/2020 5:46:20 PM (No. 512129)
From the WHO web site of notifiable diseases (via joannenova.com.au)
Influenza (Laboratory confirmed)
May 2019 2020
30573 231
June 2019 2020
57937 216
July 2019 2020
70071 185
Seems Masks, social distancing, and shelter in place has cured influenza
7 people like this.
Reply 39 - Posted by:
TrueBlueWfan 8/16/2020 6:09:23 PM (No. 512145)
I remember when "experts" told us to expect over 2 million deaths from COVID19. We are less than 200,000 now. That is about a 90% error. But good ole Mitt tells us the President didn't do a good enough job. What's the matter Mitt - the economy is not dead enough for you yet?
And what would he have done differently? They never get asked that. Biden is airing an ad saying he would have done better, but cannot state any specifics other than a nationwide mask mandate. That makes no sense for rural areas that were not hard hit by the virus.
Come Nov. 4th, this will be over and the dems and media (redundant) will focus on how Trump cheated to win the 2020 election.
10 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
heartsurgeon 8/16/2020 6:41:26 PM (No. 512183)
Everytime Mittens speaks, I cringe about the $$$ i sent him when he ran against Obama. I can't believe what a waste that was. I was conned!!
7 people like this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
lftrn97 8/16/2020 6:43:02 PM (No. 512184)
Just shut up!.
4 people like this.
The tiresome boor, Pierre Delecto.
5 people like this.
Reply 43 - Posted by:
edgar 8/16/2020 7:14:20 PM (No. 512213)
Remove Fauci. The recipe for success = HCQ + Zinc + Azithromycin at early onset.
7 people like this.
Reply 44 - Posted by:
Vesicant 8/16/2020 7:27:16 PM (No. 512231)
I believe the R now stands for Rabies.
2 people like this.
Reply 45 - Posted by:
padiva 8/16/2020 7:50:04 PM (No. 512252)
#4 So sorry for your loss.
9 people like this.
Reply 46 - Posted by:
Right Time 8/16/2020 7:50:11 PM (No. 512253)
Mitt Romney has earned a well-deserved beat-down by Donald.
I sincerely hopes that he delivers it.
BTW, what a stupid eff Romney is. I hope Trump squashes him like a bug.
4 people like this.
Reply 47 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/16/2020 7:54:18 PM (No. 512256)
The Trump Administration had to make their executive decisions relating to their COVID responses based upon the data and information given to them by experienced medical scientists such as Dr. Fauci and Dr. Berx. That was the data and information they had at the time they were making their decisions. Now Mittens based upon current information that was not available in past months, is effectively Monday morning quarterbacking those executive decisions.
7 people like this.
Reply 48 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/16/2020 8:16:45 PM (No. 512266)
I loathe these Never Trump Republican quislings more than I do Democrats, and my feelings for Democrats are not postable. So figure it out.
7 people like this.
Reply 49 - Posted by:
LaValette 8/16/2020 8:33:33 PM (No. 512277)
"No way to spin that" as he spins it.
1 person likes this.
Reply 50 - Posted by:
vhs68 8/16/2020 8:44:21 PM (No. 512284)
Mittens is upset that the postman's son, John Kaisch, is getting to speak at the DNC convention.
Dam, how did he miss that one?
2 people like this.
Reply 51 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 8/16/2020 9:22:18 PM (No. 512301)
And what, pray tell, were the state governments responsible for?!
I didn't know Romney was a smoker.....
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I think it is fair to say that Romney has distinguished himself as one of the biggest a.....es on the planet. I thought he would be another McCain but he has outdone his role model by a mile. He is without a doubt the lowest life form that the Republicans have ever voted into office. Surely there must be a way for the good folks of Utah to rid us of this creep.
3 people like this.
Reply 53 - Posted by:
Paglia guy 8/16/2020 10:21:25 PM (No. 512329)
He'll never run for reelection, he's a coward. He's wrong on his facts and his insinuation. Besides take away NY, NJ, and his beloved Mass. and we would be so far down the list you'd think we had a secret vaccine. You smell, Mitt, like a big city rodent.
1 person likes this.
Reply 54 - Posted by:
XCenturion 8/16/2020 10:57:02 PM (No. 512357)
There's a special place in hell for Mitt Romney, right next door to John McCain. This RINO reprobate blames Trump for the surge of US COVID-19 deaths and not the rioters , looters, and "peaceful protesters" across the county.
3 people like this.
Reply 55 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 8/16/2020 11:22:32 PM (No. 512374)
Mitt is disgusting and a disgrace to the GOP. It’s time the people of Utah find a respectable, true Republican person as his replacement.
1 person likes this.
Reply 56 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/17/2020 9:38:18 AM (No. 512617)
Trump needs to make Romney the ambasador for outer Slobovia...that would take his nasty face off the scene!
1 person likes this.
Reply 57 - Posted by:
MDConservative 8/17/2020 10:22:20 AM (No. 512666)
The time draws nearer and nearer for Romney to announce. His problem is the numbers aren’t going south for him. Watch for more fawning Romney coverage over the next weeks. Meanwhile, tempus fugit.
1 person likes this.
Reply 58 - Posted by:
snichols 8/17/2020 12:16:26 PM (No. 512792)
when hospitals record ALL deaths as covid 19 inorder to collect more money from the Govt, I wonder how many normal deaths, and what percentage they are of the 167,000.
1 person likes this.
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