Related: Lauren Boebert pledges to “lead with grace” and Twitter has thoughtsThe first to respond was Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL).
He reminded Boebert, “COVID did not start under the Biden administration. It was Donald Trump who closed businesses … closed schools … mandated masks … When we bring up COVID, we seem to have amnesia.”Boebert responded, “You’re right.
President Trump was in office when the COVID virus was released from a lab in China. And he tried to make that very clear that this came from China, and reporters regularly dismissed that.”That’s when Rep.
Raskin (D-MD) decided he’d heard enough.Raskin: Trump on more than 20 different occasions defended the performance of the Chinese government in terms of COVID..