You're entitled to your assessment of the situation.This is mostly false. Trump did promote the vaccine. Pretty hard as a matter of fact. It was Biden/Harris who spent the early months stating that they didn't trust Trump's vaccine.
Also trump never down played the pandemic. Another CNN lie. He ridiculed the silly measures that some states like New York were taking. And he should have because those measures not only didn't help but actively hurt the situation. Florida, Texas, Georgia and South Dakota all proved that those measures were frivolous at best. Closing small mom and pop grocery stores because they were non essential didn't end the need for people to shop. It only forced thousands of people at a time to pack into Walmart. What exactly does such a policy achieve. Absolutely nothing and Trump was correct in point this out.
Again he didn't down play the virus or the vaccine. He did however ridicule these silly measures that some governors were taking. That's not the same thing.
I just wonder why so many of his supporters refuse the vaccine if they trust him so much and if he pushed vaccination so hard.
Also why so many folks on the left have received the vaccine in spite of your assertion that Biden and Harris were harming vaccination efforts.
Kentucky regularly had fewer infections per capita than Tennessee during the pandemic. I'm not sure about other blue states, but shut downs and other drastic measures were only enacted because of a refusal of some Americans to do the bare minimum to stop the spread of the virus. That contingency of Americans didn't become emboldened out of the blue.
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