FRC's Tony Perkins whines that Trump isn't getting enough credit for fighting COVID-19 pandemic

According to some conservatives, Trump hasn't been given enough credit for fighting COVID-19.

It hasn't been a full day yet since my post Monday night about religious right reluctance to criticize Trump over the COVID-19 pandemic and the Family Research Council proves the point I was making.

 From its president, Tony Perkins:

When the dust settles from the coronavirus -- months, maybe even years from now -- there will be a lot of storylines from the crisis that were never told. One of the biggest, history will show, is about this president. Like most leaders in his position, he'd never faced a tragedy of this magnitude. But unlike so many others, Donald Trump turned to America -- not government -- for answers. It worked, not that most of the country will hear about it. He solved the supply problem, the equipment problem, the ventilator problem. But it didn't matter. The haters in the media and Democratic Party would simply turn and harp on something else. "There is a new cardinal rule in journalism," NRO editor Rich Lowry warns, "never write anything favorable about the Trump administration's coronavirus response, even about its successes." Obviously, he points out, no one's response has been perfect. "But to read the press, there is basically nothing good that the Trump administration has done over the last three months."

So Perkins (and Lowry ) are upset that the press hasn't been covering up for Trump's incompetence during this pandemic. It's not enough that Perkins and Lowry are doing it. They seem to want the entire narrative of this situation to be that the media is exploiting it to harm Trump  and that makes him the actual victim. Not the over 90,000 deceased Americans, not the over one million infected, not the people out of work or the people whose lives have been generally devastated.

Apparently, Trump is the one we should show sympathy for. Just ignore that his botched response, downplaying of the coronavirus, and general inept leadership (see videos below.) We are supposed pay it no heed and instead reflect on the claims by Lowry - and backed up by Perkins - that Trump is allegedly now on the ball and handling the pandemic. Even that narrative has little credibility when one remembers just how easily and often Trump lies and his Administration tries to gaslight us.

And let's not forget to ask how many of those problems supposedly solved by Trump were problems in the first place because of Trump? 

Trump doesn't deserve credit for half-assed, late leadership We have too many reminders of how his leadership has failed us thus far: