Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, as with most Members of Congress, is never shy with putting out a press release. She maintains two web sites that archive all of them. This is the web site for her congressional district is the site maintained in her role as Speaker of the House. Each site’s archive lists ten postings per page. All are dated by date of release and list the topic discussed.
On March 29, 2020, Pelosi said this of President Trump: “The president, his denial at the beginning, was deadly.” In other words, the President was slow to act when news of the virus was at hand. This isn’t true – the President’s actions are of early public record. But what about Pelosi?
A deep dive into Pelosi’s press releases reveal a Speaker of the House who literally, repeatedly ignored the subject of the COVID-19 virus. Silence was the Pelosi rule, not the exception to the rule.
Let’s take a look.
The headline in the South China Post read this way:
Coronavirus: China’s first confirmed COVID-19 case traced back to November 17
The story says this:
“From that date onwards, one to five new cases were reported each day. By December 15, the total number of infections stood at 27 – the first double-digit daily rise was reported on December 17 – and by December 20, the total number of confirmed cases had reached 60.”
Got those dates? Again, the dates are:
November 17, 2019
December 15, 2019
December 17, 2019
December 20, 2019
[inline_posts type=”IDs” box_title=”MUST READ” align=”alignleft” textcolor=”#000″ background=”#ccc”]4283, 4246[/inline_posts]On November 17 Speaker Nancy Pelosi was appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation. The topic was impeachment, not the virus. The virus was never mentioned.
Beginning the next day, and all through the rest of November, December, January and all of February until February 24, Congresswoman Pelosi issued 110 press releases. Not one – say again not one – dealt with the virus. It was never mentioned. There was nothing on her Speaker’s site until February 24th, either. When it came to the virus, the Speaker had not a solitary thing to say until February 24th – the day of her now-infamous visit to San Francisco’s Chinatown. Her press release quotes her that day as saying this:
“I’m here today, particularly, to say thank you to the community for the sense of family values and sense of community that they provide.
But also to say to everyone: we should come to Chinatown. Precautions have been taken by our city. We know that there is concern surrounding tourism, traveling all throughout the world, but we think it’s very safe to be in Chinatown and hope that others will come.
It’s lovely here. The food is delicious, the shops are prospering, the parade was great. Walking tours continue. Please come and visit and enjoy Chinatown.”
Note: February 24th is a full 27 days – almost a full month – after the White House had announced this on January 29th:
“Today, President Donald J. Trump announced the formation of the President’s Coronavirus Task Force. Members of the Task Force have been meeting on a daily basis since Monday. At today’s meeting, which the President chaired, he charged the Task Force with leading the United States Government response to the novel 2019 coronavirus and with keeping him apprised of developments.”
The Trump presidential task force set to work. And Speaker Pelosi? From the Speaker, there was complete and total silence on the virus until February 24th. She made the time to take a congressional junket to Munich, to repeatedly address impeachment, to take another junket to Poland and Israel, and, oh yes, to ostentatiously tear up her copy of the President’s State of the Union speech in which he said this:
“Protecting Americans’ health also means fighting infectious diseases. We are coordinating with the Chinese government and working closely together on the Coronavirus outbreak in China. My Administration will take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from this threat.”
Pelosi’s response: The speech was “a pack of lies.”
Now? With all of this behavior on-the-record – but not discussed in the liberal media – the Speaker thinks she can get away with flat out lying about her repeated silence and inaction while the virus approached
Right.
Not here.
