President Trump has sent a letter to New York Senator Chuck
Schumer that is one part information to two parts snark over the senator's
attacks on the president's coronavirus, COVID-19, response.
Schumer sent the president a letter criticizing his
response as "confused and uncoordinated," providing what appears to
be a device to provide Rep. Adam Schiff with a pretext to
investigate Trump for his administration's response to the
coronavirus.
The president replied with a verbal missile that he
appears to have dictated quickly.
It started:
Dear Senator Schumer,
Thank you for your government public relations tour and
incorrect sound bites, which are wrong in every way.
Twitter screenshot.
He followed with four bullet points explaining the
response to the senator, noting who is in charge of the Task Force (hint: it's
Vice President Mike Pence), how he's using the Defense Production Act, the name
of who's in charge of the supply chain, and what supplies his administration
has provided to New York.
He continued with this zinger:
If you spent less time on your ridiculous impeachment
hoax, which went haplessly on forever and ended up going nowhere (except
increasing my poll numbers), and instead focused on helping the people of New
York, then New York might not have been so completely unprepared for the
"invisible enemy." No wonder AOC and others are thinking about
running against you in the primary. If they did, they would likely win.
Fortunately, we have been working with your state and
city governments, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio. You have been
missing in action, except when it comes to the press. While you have stated
that you don't like Andrew Cuomo, you ought to start working alongside him for
the good of all New Yorkers.
Then came the neutron bomb:
I've known you for many years but I've never knew how bad
a Senator you are for the State of New York, until I became president.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to
call. Or, in the alternative, call Rear Admiral Polowczyk.
Trump signed with a big Trumpian John Hancock.
Twitter screenshot.
CNN's Jim Acosta, used to Trump's stinging criticisms,
hyped the president's letter:
Trump trashes Schumer in letter to the Senate Minority
Leader, released by WH: “I never knew how bad a Senator you are for the state
of New York.”
Pundit Dan Bongino called it sizzling.
We'll see if Schumer decides to take his complaints to
the next level. He'd do well to be careful.
