Was elected Governor (D) of Michigan in 2018 where she acted as Führer during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns to a ridiculous degree. Michiganders weren’t allowed to plant gardens in their own yards, forbidden to travel between homes that they own, in-person public meetings of all types were outlawed; she required medical and dental facilities to postpone all “non-essential procedures”; limited attendance at funerals to ten people; used federal pandemic relief funds to create Critical Race Theory and social justice courses for teachers.
and authorized early criminal releases on the theory that this would help limit the spread of coronavirus inside U.S. prisons.
She previously served as a member of both the Michigan State House of Representatives and the Michigan State Senate. She quickly developed a reputation as a Democrat rising star and was chosen to give her party’s rebuttal to President Trump’s State Of the Union address on February 4, 2020. In the course of her remarks that night, she portrayed the booming U.S. economy as one that was useless to everyone except the very wealthy, and she subtly called for the establishment of a new type of economy based on wealth redistribution.
Whitmer, on March 23rd of 2020, issued an executive order mandating a “temporary requirement to suspend activities that are not necessary to sustain or protect life.” Specifically, the order included: (a) strict stay-at-home regulations, the violation of which could result in a $1,000 fine and/or six months in jail; (b) a ban on all public or private gatherings “of any size”; (c) the prohibition of any non-essential travel “between residences”; and (d) the suspension of all businesses and organizations deemed “not necessary.” The “not necessary” designation encompassed many types of business establishments — e.g., furniture delivery services; golf courses; law firms; real estate offices; tobacco stores and cigar bars; hunting clubs and gun ranges; camping and sporting-goods stores; craft and hobby stores; and outdoor landscaping/lawn-maintenance services. It also prohibited the recreational use of motorboats, jet skis, and other watercraft.
Certain large stores were permitted to remain open under Whitmer’s executive order, but they were required to cordon off any “non-essential” departments and areas, including those dedicated to plants/gardening, carpeting, flooring, furniture, appliances, and paint. Meanwhile, such establishments were permitted to advertise nothing other than groceries, medical supplies, and other “items necessary to maintain the safety, sanitation, and basic operations of residences.”
One item that Whitmer did classify as “essential” was access to abortion services. In a podcast interview with former Barack Obama political strategist David Alexrod, the governor said: “We stopped elective surgeries here in Michigan [because of the pandemic], and some people have tried to say that that type of a procedure [abortion] is considered the same [as elective surgeries], and that’s ridiculous. A woman’s health care, her whole future, her ability to decide if and when she starts a family, is not an election, it is a fundamental to her life. It is life-sustaining, and it’s something that government should not be getting in the middle of.”
Whitmer was also reportedly involved in keeping Big Ten football shutdown for the year affecting all the student-athletes at these fine institutions.
After President Trump in March 2020 voiced optimism that the well-established anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine might prove to be “a game-changer” with regard to the treatment of COVID-19, Whitmer banned the drug’s use for COVID-19 patients in her state. In compliance with the ban, the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (DLRA) threatened doctors with “administrative action” if they chose to give the drug to such patients. “Prescribing hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine [a related medication] without further proof of efficacy for treating COVID-19 or with the intent to stockpile the drug may create a shortage for patients with lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, or other ailments for which chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are proven treatments,” said the DLRA. But when increasing numbers of reports subsequently emerged showing that hydroxychloroquine, combined with azithromycin and zinc, appeared to be highly effective at short-circuiting the coronavirus in its early stages, Whitmer removed the ban. In fact, the governor went so far as to ask the federal government to supply her state with large quantities of hydroxychloroquine.
As the month of March progressed, many Michiganders became increasingly vexed by Whitmer’s heavy-handed, arbitrary decrees which had shut down most of the state’s economy. For example, in late March a group of Michigan residents initiated a petition on the website Change.org demanding that the governor be recalled from office. By mid-April, the petition had amassed more than 270,000 signatures.
In mid-April as well, some 10,000 Michigan residents carried out “Operation Gridlock,” whereby they surrounded the Michigan statehouse in their cars to protest the governor’s edicts. Whitmer, in response, suggested that the demonstrators were creating a public-health danger by congregating in that manner, even though they were mostly inside their vehicles. “We might have to actually think about extending stay-at-home orders, which is supposedly what they were protesting,” she said, characterizing the protest as “a political rally” carried out by Trump supporters.
Further, Michigan residents filed at least two federal lawsuits accusing Whitmer of violating their constitutional rights. In a similar spirit, four Michigan sheriffs announced that they would not enforce portions of the governor’s executive order, on grounds that: (a) “some restrictions that she has imposed” had “created a vague framework of emergency laws that only confuse Michigan citizens,” and (b) those restrictions had “overstepp[ed] her executive authority.”
On April 6, Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden brought Whitmer onto his podcast and praised her as “an outstanding governor,” “a good friend,” and “one of the most talented people in the country.” “She also is a supporter,” Biden added. “She was also a co-chair of my campaign.” At that time, Whitmer was known to be one of several candidates – all women – whom Biden was considering for the role of his vice presidential running mate.
On April 8, Whitmer posted an online video in which she addressed Michigan’s children and assured them that the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy would be exempt from her newly expanded stay-at-home order. “We heard there were kids in Michigan who had a few concerns,” said the governor in the video, “so I wanted to let you know that I spoke with the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy to let them know that they are essential workers and they can keep doing their jobs even though the rest of us are staying home.”
In early April as well, Whitmer appeared on Fox News Sunday and complained about President Trump “not having a national [coronavirus] strategy where there is one policy for the country as opposed to a patchwork [of different policies] based on who the governor is.” This, said the governor, “is creating a more porous situation where COVID-19 will go longer, and more people will get sick [and] more lives may get lost.”
On May 1, 2020, Whitmer announced that her stay-at-home order would remain in effect through May 15, and she also declared a new 28-day state of emergency for her state. When hundreds of demonstrators subsequently gathered in Lansing to protest the governor’s ongoing emergency measures, the governor characterized the demonstrators as racists, neo-Nazis, and vigilantes:
“So, unfortunately right now in Michigan we see a small number of people – it looks large on television. But when you think about this is a state of 10 million people, this is a small contingent that came out and made political statements. They carried nooses and confederate flags and swastikas. And yet, while we’re focusing on their carrying – their open carrying automatic rifles, that is legal in Michigan. It is not advisable…. [T]he fact of the matter is, that kind of rhetoric, that kind of ugly political rallying is only making it harder for us to re-engage, which is the sad irony, is that demonstrations like that create the need to continue this aggressive stance that we’ve had to take to save lives.”
On May 7, Whitmer extended her stay-at-home order until May 28.
On May 22, Whitmer announced that she was extending her stay-at-home order for a fourth time, to June 12.
On May 25, 2020, the Detroit News reported that during the previous week, Whitmer’s husband, Marc Mallory, had urged the dock company NorthShore Dock LLC to place his boat in the water before the Memorial Day weekend — even as Governor Whitmer was instructing residents not to rush to the region. When Mallory was told that, because of delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic, there would be no way to get his boat into the water ahead of other boats that had already been scheduled, he said: ‘I am the husband to the governor, will this make a difference?’” When asked about the incident, Whitmer’s spokeswoman, Tiffany Brown, said that the governor’s administration would not address “every rumor that is spread online.”
On June 4, 2020 in downtown Detroit, Whitmer participated in a protest over the death of George Floyd, a black Minneapolis man who had died soon after an incident of police abuse against him. Though the governor had instructed protesters to wear masks and stay six feet apart in order to avoid spreading the coronavirus, she violated her own rule. Whitmer marched as part of a closely packed large group that chanted, “Hands up, don’t shoot,” and “This is what democracy looks like.”
Also on June 4, a host of the radio show Mojo In The Morning asked Whitmer about the “Defund Police” sentiment that many young people were pushing on social media in the wake of George Floyd’s death. “What would the world be like without police?” the host asked. Whitmer replied, “I understand the frustration and the sentiment,” adding that “the youth of our country are going to take up the lead soon.” To address the issue of allegedly widespread racism in law enforcement, Whitmer endorsed the enactment of quotas in the Michigan State Police. She also boasted that she had created an “equity and inclusion office” that would increase minority applicants for the police force to “at least” 25 percent, and would increase the female trooper pool by 20 percent.
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In March 2021, Whitmer vacationed to Florida during Michigan’s Covid-19 surge while telling Michiganders to stay home and avoid travel. Whitmer specifically attacked Floridians and blamed “snow birds” traveling from the Sunshine State into Michigan for her state’s Covid surge. Deadline Detroit reported that Whitmer borrowed a private jet, not certified for charter flights, from a group of uberwealthy Detroit businessmen who have major dealings with the state of Michigan so when they were asked by Whitmer if she could mooch their private jet, they said yes. Breitbart News exclusively obtained a photo of Whitmer AGAIN violating her own Covid orders at a Lansing dive bar in May 2021.
It was previously unclear who paid for Whitmer’s private charter and when she was asked about borrowing a private jet, she basically told the peasants to shut up and stop asking questions. The Detroit News on Friday revealed Whitmer’s private flight was paid for by a dark money non-profit and the cost was $27,521. (TGP)
The unhinged state leader also awarded a coronavirus contract to the far left group Every Action VAN to “help organize remote phone banking and track information and contacts” for Michigan, a state press release said. Whitmer awarded the far left group with collecting private data on Michigan residents. The non-profit was formed in 2018 to pay for Whitmer’s inauguration so it appears that she ILLEGALLY used the funds for personal expenses. Whitmer paid $855 for her seat but the dark money paid for the remaining $27,000-ish. The FAA began an investigation into the matter. (TGP)
The Free Beacon reported:
Michigan Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer has handed over control of the state’s new contact-tracing operation to one of her own campaign vendors and one of the left’s biggest technology firms. The move has sparked concern that she is using the coronavirus to strengthen the Democratic Party’s data operation, potentially at the expense of public health.
The Whitmer administration announced Monday that it had awarded a contract for contact tracing in the state to Every Action VAN, an arm of the Democratic data behemoth NGP VAN. The liberal firm works with all of the major Democratic campaign committees and hundreds of labor unions across the country, according to its website, and will “help organize remote phone banking and track information and contacts” for Michigan, a state press release said.
The group is run by Stuart Trevelyan, a longtime Democratic campaign operative who worked in the Clinton White House and is currently assisting presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s campaign with voter outreach and fundraising, according to Federal Election Commission reports. Whitmer’s own gubernatorial campaign paid NGP VAN nearly $5,000 in 2019, according to state campaign finance records. Every Action is a branch of the firm that works with nonprofit organizations.
States across the country have begun contact tracing operations in the hope that wide-scale interviews will unlock crucial information and prevent additional infections. But Whitmer appears to be the first governor to employ a group that typically focuses on politics to help with the task.
Whitmer’s actions were challenged in court and the Michigan Supreme Court unanimously said Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s attempt to continue a state of emergency after April 30, 2020 without legislative approval was illegal. Additionally, in a 4-3 decision, the Court ruled that the Emergency Powers of Governor Act of 1945, which Governor Whitmer argued allowed her to maintain unilateral control for an indefinite period, is unconstitutional. All executive orders issued after April 30 are null and void, pending an almost certain rehearing request from the governor and other state officials.
In an interview on national TV on October 20th, 2020, Whitmer portrayed symbols in the background that can be interpreted as ‘Kill Trump’. Whitmer deliberately included the 86-45 symbolism in her interview on Meet the Press. We know this because she didn’t have it in a separate interview with a local NBC Channel 4 held on the same day.
Whitmer’s actions related to the China coronavirus alone are anti-American and repulsive. Her encouragement of killing President Trump is beyond repulsive and possibly criminal.3 Whitmer was one of the governors who sent sick patients to the nursing homes in her state. In July 2021 the Biden Department of Justice dropped all of the investigations into the Democrat governors who tossed the sick COVID patients into the nursing homes killing tens of thousands of American seniors. Only 0.6% of the US population lives in nursing homes but over 45% of the coronavirus deaths were in these centers. An auditor general report expected released in Jan 2022 states Michigan and Governor Whitmer may have undercounted nursing home deaths by 30 percent.
