[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell and the Washington Post's Philip Rucker decided on Monday to place the blame for the current pandemic on President Trump and red states by conveniently ignoring all contrary evidence that would suggest that partisan affiliation has nothing to do with the current health crisis.
Mitchell began by hyping a lengthy Post article that provided the segment's source material. Mitchell summed the article up as, "a searing account of the failures of the Trump Administration to take COVID-19 seriously as the virus made its way from China into the U.S. For more than two months, time was squandered, warnings ignored."