In First Primetime Speech, Biden Takes Credit For Covid Vaccines, Apparently Forgets Dem Leadership Denied Covid Crisis Early

Biden gave a very interesting speech last night. Two statements really stuck out to me.

The first was pretty much his opening statement, when he took a stab at former President Trump’s Covid response, saying,

“A year ago, we were hit with a virus that was met with silence and spread unchecked. Denials for days, weeks, then months. That led to more deaths, more infections, more stress, and more loneliness.”

Biden begins his speech by attacking the Trump administration with lies: “A year ago, we were hit with a virus that was met with silence and spread unchecked. Denials for days, weeks, then months. That led to more deaths, more infections, more stress, and more loneliness.” pic.twitter.com/j6e1NeWdnO

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) March 12, 2021

Honestly, this statement is hilarious to me because he’s actually right. There was silence and denial as the virus spread across the world and entered the country. But I guess he (and his handlers and speech writers) are choosing to forget that the silence and denial actually came from prominent Democrat leadership.

There’s literally an article by the Wall Street Journal, certainly not a conservative publication, titled “The Democrats’ 2020 Coronavirus Hindsight: A review of this year’s debates shows they were less concerned than Trump about the pandemic.” The article says,

“The Trump-acted-too-late story line would be more convincing if Mr. Biden and other Democrats had called for bolder action early in the crisis, but they didn’t. Democratic candidates held five televised debates, lasting nearly 11 hours from Jan. 14 through March 15. They offered no policy proposals that haven’t already been enacted and said little about the virus in the four events in January and February.”

Or how about the fact the the Biden campaign didn’t even release an official statement regarding the Coronavirus until March 11th? Silence and denial much? He told a rally that this was “not a time to panic” about the virus. Biden, Pelosi, Cuomo, and others mocked President Trump’s initial steps to mitigate the spread of Covid, like calling the travel bans from highly infected countries “hysterical xenophobia,” even going out in public and announcing that their cities were fully open and that there was no danger and nothing to fear. There was silence and denial, alright. But it was from Biden and his political allies.

The second interesting statement was when Joe Biden praised “my administration” for the Covid vaccines. He essentially took full credit for the incredible and record-breaking pace of the development and distribution of Covid vaccines.

“Now, because all the work we’ve done, we’ll have enough vaccine supply for all adults in America by the end of May.”

Apparently President Biden (and his handlers and speech writers) would rather you didn’t remember that it was President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed that lead to the development of multiple vaccines and the administration of millions of doses before Joe Biden ever took office.

Here, I’ll fix it for you. Because of the record-breaking speed with which multiple life-saving vaccines were developed, thanks to President Trump’s Operation Warp Speed, as well as the significant organizational and logistical efforts by the Biden Administration these past two months to streamline distribution, we’ll have enough vaccine supply for all adults in America by the end of May. Doesn’t that give credit where credit is certainly due?

But if there’s one thing we know Joe Biden is good at, it’s plagiarizing and taking credit for the work of others.

Of Biden apparently denying the Trump Administration any credit for the record-breaking Covid vaccine development, Sean Hannity said,

“There were already a million vaccines being administered into people’s arms every single day when Biden was sworn in, 36 million doses had already been distributed. Joe, you want unity? Why don’t you just thank Donald Trump? You want us all to get along, you say. No Trump, no vaccine, Joe. Stop trying to take credit for something, frankly, you had nothing to do with. Nothing.”

On the day of the inauguration, 15.6 million people had already received doses of the vaccine. On Inauguration Day alone, 1.5 million people were inoculated. And not a single one of those had anything to do with Biden. But he sure made it sound like he and his administration were solely responsible for the vaccines that are being praised as life-saving and miraculous.

Ultimately, the media praised the Presidential address as a smashing success.

Yeah, I’m not about to celebrate the fact that our President and the leader of the free world was physically able to spend less than 30 minutes delivering a scripted speech in a highly controlled setting without muttering something incoherent or saying something blatantly racist. I just don’t consider that a win. But when the bar is so incredibly low, I guess just about anything counts as success.