August 30, 2021 4:16 pm

Why Isn’t Biden to Blame for COVID Deaths?

The reality is that neither Biden nor Trump deserves blame for COVID deaths. Neither had a silver bullet.

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President Joe Biden attends a virtual briefing on Hurricane Ida in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building’s South Court Auditorium at the White House in Washington, D.C., August 30, 2021.

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One of the most morally revolting talking points taken up by the Left in its effort to deflect attention from Joe Biden’s deadly incompetence in Afghanistan is minimizing the deaths of 13 troops in Kabul by pointing out that more people are dying from COVID every day.

Of course, if we use the standards that Democrats set during the Trump years, those COVID deaths are also the responsibility of President Biden.