Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) hit back at Nancy Pelosi’s scandalous comments about President Trump yesterday.
“She’s blaming the president of the United States for people dying because of the way he’s led the country,” Graham said before dropping the hammer.
“That’s the most shameful, disgusting statement by any politician in modern history.”
Pelosi earlier has tried to blame Trump and seemed to accuse him of contributing to the death toll by delaying action. From The Hill:
“His denial at the beginning was deadly. His delaying of getting equipment … to where it is needed is deadly,” Pelosi said, stressing that social distancing requirements should remain intact as states attempt to slow the rapid spread of the disease.
The U.S. had confirmed more than 125,000 cases of the novel coronavirus as of Sunday afternoon, according to a Johns Hopkins University database, the most worldwide. The disease has so far accounted for more than 2,000 deaths.
Asked for her thoughts on the Trump administration’s consideration of relaxing social distancing requirements in certain parts of the U.S., Pelosi emphasized that the nation should be “taking every precaution.”
“As the president fiddles, people are dying. We just have to take every precaution,” she said.
Graham accused Pelosi of being the “the first politician to blame another politician for people dying,” claiming that the pandemic had brought out the “best of America from our citizens.”
He also slammed Pelosi and other Democratic lawmakers over the goals they laid out for the mammoth stimulus package Congress approved last week.
“This is the same Speaker of the House who held up the bill in the Senate for days because she wanted same-day voting. She wanted carbon neutrality for the airlines,” Graham said. “She is the one that held up the package in the Senate for days. … So it’s the most shameful, disgusting thing I have heard yet, and it needs to stop.”
“The Speaker is focused on defeating this virus and getting the job done for the American people,” Drew Hammill, Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, told The Hill. “Facts and science must guide our efforts to confront this pandemic – not blind political allegiance to the President.”
