America, in short, is in the midst of a first-world health care catastrophe. And President Trump bears much of the blame.
Despite Trump’s repeated claims that this pandemic was “unforeseen” and “came out of nowhere,” America’s intelligence agencies have long warnedof a deadly, highly infectious pandemic like COVID-19. Unsurprisingly, the government retains detailed pandemic response plans, which were ignored by the Trump administration.
Moreover, the Obama administration conducted an in-depth disaster preparedness exercise simulating a viral outbreak – remarkably similar to what the world confronts today – for the incoming Trump administration. Since then, Trump has fired most of the key participants and proceeded to disband a critical pandemic response team.
Worse, President Trump began receiving dire intelligence warnings as far back as January that COVID-19 was likely to significantly impact the United States.
