This past week, Nancy Pelosi, the figurehead for AOC, said that President Trump was like Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned. Nothing could be further from the truth. President Trump works every day to assure Americans that aid is available to them. He is working hand in hand with two NeverTrump Democratic governors. Andrew Cuomo of New York and Gavin Newsom of California.
Barack Obama did the opposite. He would grant emergency funds for states where he did well but would exclude states that voted heavily against him. Anyone can work with their friends. It takes a real leader to work with those who oppose you at every turn. California has filed 46 lawsuits against Trump and his policies. Yet gavin Newsom has been singing Trump’s praises.
Meanwhile, what were the Democrats doing? Nothing. President Trump banned travel from China on January 31st. On February 4th during his SOTU speech, the president brought up the coronavirus and explained that his administration was preparing for it. The Democrats meanwhile was concentrating on a bogus impeachment hearing. So, who was really fiddling?
Let’s start by going back to this timeline put together by Breitbart’s Joel Pollak:
- January 11: Chinese state media report the first known death from an illness originating in the Wuhan market.
- January 15: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holds a vote to send articles of impeachment to the Senate. Pelosi and House Democrats celebrate the “solemn” occasion with a signing ceremony, using commemorative pens.
- January 21: The first person with coronavirus arrives in the United States from China, where he had been in Wuhan.
- January 23: The House impeachment managers make their opening arguments for removing President Trump.
- January 23: China closes off the city of Wuhan completely to slow the spread of coronavirus to the rest of China.
- January 30: Senators begin asking two days of questions of both sides in the president’s impeachment trial.
- January 30: The World Health Organization declares a global health emergency as coronavirus continues to spread.
- January 31: The Senate holds a vote on whether to allow further witnesses and documents in the impeachment trial.
- January 31: President Trump declares a national health emergency and imposes a ban on travel to and from China. Former Vice President Joe Biden calls Trump’s decision “hysterical xenophobia … and fear-mongering.”
- February 2: The first death from coronavirus outside China is reported in the Philippines.
- February 3: House impeachment managers begin closing arguments, calling Trump a threat to national security.
- February 4: President Trump talks about coronavirus in his State of the Union address; Pelosi rips up every page.
- February 5: The Senate votes to acquit President Trump on both articles of impeachment, 52-48 and 53-47.
- February 5: House Democrats finally take up coronavirus in the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia.