last night on The Beat.
'Right now, .the country in many ways is opening back up, but it's not opening back up because COVID-19 is diminishing... it's opening back up because Donald Trump thinks it politically expedient.'
'It didn't have to be the case that we'll lose (by August) 137,000+ Americans. We didn't have to have a shattered economy. We don't see this in other places around the world.'
'And we saw at his news conference today: more delusion, more happy talk, more fantasy, more dangerous fantasy-- that in the end will get people in this country killed.'
'The fact of the matter is THIS: The United States is
the epicenter of the COVID-19 virus, period.'
'The United States is the place in the world where
you are most likely to die from COVID-19.'
'It is delusional-happy-talk in extremis when Steve Mnuchin or Donald Trump say everything's going to be fine by the 3rd and 4th quarter, and we'll be BOOMING next year.... we're going to see unemployment rates north of 20%, perhaps as high as 30%... we're facing an economic catastrophe in this country. At every conceivable level, we have a president who has FAILED.'
'(Trump) is just not equipped -at a moral level, at a mental level,
at an intellectual level... a president who's just completely
overmatched by events, from beginning-to-end...
exactly zero capacity to lead this country out of this'