Tom Cotton Issues Biden Travel Hypocrisy Ban On Omicron Variant: ‘Yet Another Incompetent Measure’

In 2020, Joe Biden said Trump’s China travel ban was “Xenophobic”. However, for now, the travel ban seems to be fine as he has just decided to block travel from South Africa.

While being interviewed on Fox News, Senator Tom Cotton ripped Biden for his blatant hypocrisy.

“What President Biden did over the weekend is a typical half-baked measure that reflects the incompetence of this administration,” Cotton told Brian Kilmeade.

“If you want to implement a travel ban, it needs to take effect immediately, which is what most European countries have done, they have implemented this travel ban. If you don’t want to implement a travel ban because you think the virus is already here or it’s backfired, you shouldn’t, but it’s a half-measure that doesn’t work. Last January, when the Democrats were wasting the American people’s time with the impeachment trial of President Trump, I tried to sound the alarm about this virus, calling on President Trump to stop working. Travel from China to America. After about a week, President Trump did so and I remember then Joe Biden and Kamala Harris denounced them xenophobia and racism the same way they called the next travel bans on countries the other is racist. The hypocrisy here is astounding but it is very typical for what you get from this incompetent administration.”

Steve Doocy coolly said, “And from your point of view, if you’re going to implement a travel ban, do it quickly. Dr Fauci, on Wednesday, when the travel ban went into effect around the world in several countries, he said yes, that’s what we’ll be thinking about. Not in five days until they, us, the US actually do it, although now who are saying don’t impose travel bans just because, but in the end, you can blame give tony now because if you’re going to do it do it fast. “

“Steve, the lesson of this pandemic, as I said last January at the start of this pandemic, is that you need to move early and you need to move fast if you want to take these measures, ‘ Cotton replied.

“That if you wait until you have every bit of evidence, you will wait too long. As Benjamin Franklin said, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Now is it possible that this new variant is available in the US? Yes it is possible. It’s in other places like Portugal or the UK, but there’s a difference between having a few people exposed to it and having a plane with a lot of people land from Wuhan like the Democrats did at the beginning. last year. This is just another example of the amazing hypocrisy of the Democrats regarding this virus. “

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Later, Fox & Friends broadcast a clip of Dr. Tony Fauci saying Ted Cruz should be investigated on January 6. In response, Cotton just laughed.

“Well, first of all, no official like Tony Fauci should be engaged in a back-and-forth partisan war with an elected member of the United States Senate,” Cotton began.

“Ted Cruz, like 99 other senators, represents the people who elected him. That official, like Tony Fauci, works for those people. Second. Tony Fauci lied to Congress and he should be investigated. He has repeatedly said that his agency does not fund dangerous and risky functional research in laboratories in Wuhan, which is almost certainly the source of this virus. . He has said that many times to Congress. His agency just admitted a few weeks ago that yes, it does, in fact, make money off of functional research, so there’s a lie there that Tony Fauci lied to Congress or the agency. his government after months of criticism, wrote a letter to Congress and admitted it. it. I suspect it is Tony Fauci lying on the spot in his testimony before Congress. He puts the American people at risk by funding this dangerous research that’s been going on under the Obama administration, which he thinks he understands better than the people’s elected representatives. . That is just another example of how these officials think they are science, that they represent the epitome of knowledge and that politicians, like the president of the United States, senators and representatives of the United States, have no business telling them what to do. Cotton said.

Watch the video above for the full exchange.