The Senate majority leader criticized the former president on a Trump campaign live stream despite the presence of a “Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents.”
With more than 80,000 Americans dead from the coronavirus, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and President Trump are trying to deflect blame to former President Barack Obama.
“We literally left them a 69-page Pandemic Playbook.... that they ignored,” tweeted Ron Klain, who oversaw the Ebola response under Obama and now advises presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. “And an office called the Pandemic Preparedness Office... that they abolished. And a global monitoring system called PREDICT .. that they cut by 75%.”
More than 1.3 million people have tested positive for the coronavirus in the United States, with at least 80,600 deaths, the highest numbers in the world and much higher than countries that implemented widespread testing early in the pandemic. Trump continued to push “Obamagate” during a Monday briefing on virus testing, again without specifying the “political crime” he was imputing to the previous administration.
Recent remarks by Trump and by friendly commentators on Fox News suggest a connection to the FBI’s investigation of Trump’s former national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn, which began during the transition between administrations. Flynn was fired —by Trump — after three weeks as national security adviser and later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about conversations he had with the Russian ambassador.
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