HYPOCRITE: MSNBC’s Heilemann Says Omicron Isn’t Biden’s Fault, Blamed Trump For Deaths Last Year

MSNBC’s hypocrisy knows no bounds. Particularly when it comes to the Covid-19 pandemic, and who’s responsible for rising death rates and surging cases. On Monday, the edition of Deadline for White HouseJohn Heilemann, fill-in host, jumped to President Biden’s defense, saying he was “not responsible”. He also blamed President Trump in 2020.

In the segment in question, Heilemann was speaking with discussed topics ranging from long lines at testing centers in New York City, to an announcement from Moderna that their booster shot is more effective against the Omicron variant, to the Biden Administration’s bizarre statement threatening unvaccinated Americans.

Towards the end of the segment, Heilemann looked to Princeton Proffesor Eddie Glaude and made this stunningly hypocritical claim about Joe Biden’s handling of the pandemic:

So Eddie, here’s my question for you coming out of what Phil said before, right? Uh, it’s we know the president is not responsible for this, he didn’t cause Omicron, and they’re dealing with a – this pandemic which is metastasizing and mutating every minute that it’s on planet earth. It’s also the case that we know presidents get blamed for things that they don’t deserve to get blamed for, they get praised for things that they don’t deserve to get praised for. This is how politics works. They are not in a good place at this moment.

“They’ve done in some ways a good job in this past year on this, and yet the sense of the unending pandemic is a political drag on Joe Biden,” he added. So my question to Joe Biden is: Does Joe Biden have to be tougher? If I say getting more tough, it is especially for the unvaccinated. What would a person’s approach be if he felt compelled to become more tough?

Heilemann says that Joe Biden was not responsible for the Omicron variation’s spread. That would be logical. A president cannot stop the spread of contagious viruses.

However, that isn’t what Heilemann thought about President Trump last year.

Below is his statement about Trump’s comments last year during the height of the pandemic that hit the spring 2020.

It is true that the responses Donald Trump directed to his government during that time were woefully inadequate for the task of getting the country ready to face the virus. He knew the virus was coming. He was told that the country was coming. The consequences were laid out for him vividly by people like Peter Navaro and others and yet the reaction was incompetent and inadequate and I don’t think it’s actually an overstatement to say that Donald Trump has — there are tens of thousands of people who will die in the country, or some of them have already died more are still going to die because of Donald Trump’s incompetence and lack of leadership.

It’s clear that John Heileman is more interested in playing political games than he is in covering the pandemic. You can’t blame one president for not stopping the spread a virus if you use the same standards and also blame the other.

Alternativly, you could stop playing political games altogether and report only the latest. Something tells us Heileman won’t though.

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To read the relevant transcript of the segment click “expand”:

Deadline for White House 
12/20/2021
4:06:41 PM

JOHN HEILEMAN: So Eddie, here’s my question for you coming out of what Phil said before, right? Uh, it’s we know the president is not responsible for this, he didn’t cause Omicron, and they’re dealing with a – this pandemic which is metastasizing and mutating every minute that it’s on planet earth. It’s also the case that we know presidents get blamed for things that they don’t deserve to get blamed for, they get praised for things that they don’t deserve to get praised for. This is how politics works. They are not in a good place at this moment.

They’ve done in some ways, a good job in this past year on this, and yet the sense of the unending pandemic is a political drag on, on Joe Biden. My question is: Does Joe Biden have to be tougher? To be more difficult on unvaccinated people, I would suggest getting harder. If he thinks he should get more tough, how would it look?

Deadline for White House
4/8/2020
4.46:46 PM

HEILEMAN – The truth is that the responses that Donald Trump and his government gave in those two months, which were January and February respectively, was inadequate for the task of preparing the nation for the virus. The fact that he was aware of the imminent threat to his country. He was told that the country was coming. The consequences were laid out for him vividly by people like Peter Navaro and others and yet the reaction was incompetent and inadequate and I don’t think it’s actually an overstatement to say that Donald Trump has — there are tens of thousands of people who will die in the country, or some of them have already died more are still going to die because of Donald Trump’s incompetence and lack of leadership.