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That seems a bit revisionist. To my knowledge, Donald Trump was always a vocal supporter of the Covid vaccine. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden were the ones sowin
by 0x7E3 5y ago
That seems a bit revisionist. To my knowledge, Donald Trump was always a vocal supporter of the Covid vaccine. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden were the ones sowing doubt about it - right up until they won the election. Harris, in particular, described Trump as irresponsible for advocating for Project Warpspeed and suggesting that people should take a Covid vaccine before it had gone through the full approval process.
I think you may be getting their personal stances confused with the partisan arguments about vaccine mandates that have evolved in the year since.
- voltaireodactyl 5y agoTrump didn’t make the vaccine a wedge issue, he made COVID a wedge issue by repeatedly calling it a political lie (which resulted in vaccines becoming a wedge issue). I suspect the confusion between your perspective and that of the previous commenter is a result of the difficulty Trump experienced in trying to promote a vaccine for an illness he was himself at the same time claiming does not exist.
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- j2bax 5y agoHe also clung to and promoted a bunch of other unproven treatments leading up to the vaccine… why should anyone have trusted him by this point in the pandemic?