David Axelrod

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

The other irony, of course, is that if we are able through social distancing and sheltering in place manage to flatten the curve, it will be because of governors who got out in front of the @POTUS and took aggressive steps before he was willing to acknowledge the need. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

I honestly can’t imagine any other president, in the midst of a national crisis, blaming the states for a lack of preparedness. But what makes it worse is that this is that this is the @POTUS who scrapped early warning pandemic units & downplayed the threat for 6 critical weeks. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

There is no evidence of significant fraud associated with mail-in voting, as the @POTUS just suggested. And if the virus persists, the effect of rejecting it would be to severely limit turnout in the next election. Which may be exactly his intention. https://t.co/q9vPwzHsS0 — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

The WH argued for years during @BarackObama Administration that a large infrastructure program made huge sense to spur the economy while interest rates were low. .@realDonaldTrump making them same argument now. Can he bring the @GOP in Congress along? — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

.@POTUS again blames NYS for not having enough ventilators to deal with a once in a century pandemic. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Translation. They don’t want more people signing up for the ACA. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Interesting. @realDonaldTrump refuses to answer if emergency coverage during crisis would apply to undocumented. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Why when women ask tough, valid questions, does the @POTUS always refer to them as “nasty?” When Kushner said the stockpile was “ours,” he clearly suggested it belongs to the feds, not the states, which was absurd. Good for you, @weijia. Not “nasty.” Appropriate! — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

And this was on top of the dismantlement in 2018 of the NDC directorate created by the @BarackObama administration to track potential pandemics and quickly mobilize a response. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

As @realDonaldTrump blames the previous administration for lack of preparedness for pandemics, someone really should ask about this: https://t.co/70u6uG3scw — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

As @real blames the previous administration for lack of preparedness for pandemics, someone really should ask about this: https://t.co/70u6uG3scw — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Are “presidents, dictators, kings and queens” actually dropping by the Oval Office these days? — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Apart from the self-serving ad libs, the @POTUS reads these written remarks with all the enthusiasm of a clerk reading the call in traffic court. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

“I cannot see our men, who have fought so bravely and who have endured extreme hardship and danger so uncomplainingly, go to destruction without striving so far as lies in me to avert a doom as fearful as it is unnecessary and undeserved.” https://t.co/YDTuZDWApl — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

The dismissal of Captain Brett Crozier as commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt for seeking safe harbor for his COVID-19 sickened crew recalls a letter TR wrote to his superiors when his Rough Riders faced a Yellow Fever and malaria outbreak during Spanish-American War. 1/2 — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

.@drsanjaygupta is an extraordinary doctor and, even more, an exceptional person. Please give a listen to my #AxeFIles podcast with him and you will get deeper insights into the man who has been such an important voice during this crisis. https://t.co/7DUH18QxQA — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

RT @murphymike: Also insane to me that Navy has been soft on Trump’s bending rules for criminal SEAL while now dropping huge hammer on Capt… — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Best wishes to @BrookeBCNN, as she grapples with COVID-19. One of the nicest people around! Everyone is pulling for you, my friend! — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

In addition to his @CNN duties, @drsanjaygupta is a practicing neurosurgeon. In new #AxeFiles, he talks candidly about the difficulty he still has in delivering grim news to patients & families-a challenge doctors are facing across U.S. w/COVID-19. https://t.co/7DUH18yWZ2 https://t.co/l0xqazP1gp — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Prediction: He will not be talking about polls today at his daily rally/briefing. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

RT @MichelleObama: On this #NationalDoctorsDay, I want to share this powerful video from Dr. Francois and Dr. Robinson and thank all of the… — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

In finally issuing a stay at home order, GA Gov says he just learned that people w/COVID-19 can be asymptomatic. But he didn’t explain what planet he’s been on to have missed that basic fact until now. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

You have a lot to be proud of, Sen. Sanders. Now it's time to go My latest piece for https://t.co/pkEjMZrCtg. https://t.co/vhoudmeysL — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

RT @kaitlancollins: Trump sends a letter to Sen. Schumer and it is worth reading in full. https://t.co/jrvFnEI8oa — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Crises beget crises. https://t.co/uFDGFAeNg3 — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

RT @chrislhayes: Fauci being the point guard for the 1958 Regis basketball team is my absolute favorite biographical detail about him. htt… — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Again, the huge potential mortality numbers were known when the @POTUS was dismissing the magnitude of the threat and assuring the country that everything was “under control.” The history is the history. You can’t rewrite it. We lost valuable time. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

He knows what’s coming when the peak or the virus arrives. The idea that that states and medical centers are hoarding flies in the face of everything that is being reported in the ground. It’s offensive. The federal government HAS to lead in scenario such as this. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

So the Navy fired this captain for speaking up and asking help for his COVID-9 sickened crew? https://t.co/SDi5Mn318e — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Feels like most of today’s briefing was designed to get out in front of the cascading outcry about the lack of timely provision of emergency equipment to states and local communities before the wave of COVID-19 crests. — PolitiTweet.org