Yeah, So, Trump couldn't have done anything better, but if he could have, it's not his fault because his advisors get the blame.
He could have shutdown travel from Europe when it became a known problem. It was just inconceivable that those affected in Europe were a potential threat, how could he have known it wasn't just "just that one person from China" back when everything was "under control". But... not his fault for saying such an idiotic thing, his advisors must be to blame.
So, nobody could have done it better, even with the WH pandemic office intact. Oh, but it wasn't really dismantled, it was just reconfigured, if you look at it from an azzcovering perspective.
So, again, just to be clear, Trump couldn't have done anything better, because he's only as good as those he trusts, and surrounds himself with.
That sound about right?
You can always do things better or do some things worse; on the balance, regardless of who occupied the WH, it'd have been the same outcome. It's simply understood by rational people that there is no perfect response to such an event.
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Fauci asserted Trump shut down European travel when the experts advised him to. Again, if you want to lambast Trump for that, you're going to have to grind up the experts with him. This isn't complicated.
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Bolton fired Tom Bossert, the homeland security adviser, realigning the post to report directly to him. He eliminated a number of deputy national security advisers so there was just one. And he folded the global health directorate into a new one that focused on counterproliferation and biodefense. Ziemer departed for a high-level post in the U.S. Agency for International Development, though a former administration official said he was due to leave the NSC anyway. His staff, whom Ziemer had called “the dream team,” remained in place.
https://www.washingtonpost....
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As we explained in a March 3 story, the administration did eliminate a key position at the NSC but that doesn’t mean the entire “team” was “fired,” as then-Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg said, or that all of the functions of the office were eliminated.
NSC spokesman John Ullyot told the Post: “No director-level positions were eliminated during this process, and the organization retained its subject matter expertise under a different organizational structure.”
Some have said the NSC needs a separate global health security point person or team — as the Center for Strategic & International Studies recommended. That’s a matter of opinion, and we take no position on that.
Kenneth W. Bernard, who served in both former President Bill Clinton’s and President George W. Bush’s administrations, wrote in 2018 that this was the third time that an administration had “downgraded the importance of disease and bioterrorism threats in the hierarchy of national security issues.” Bernard said he worked in such a post in 1998 but the Bush administration abolished it in 2001, then reopened it a year later after 9/11 and the 2001 anthrax attacks. He said Obama abolished it again after his election, but in his second term created the NSC office.
Bolton responded to the recent criticism on Twitter on March 14, saying: “Claims that streamlining NSC structures impaired our nation’s bio defense are false. Global health remained a top NSC priority, and its expert team was critical to effectively handling the 2018-19 Africa Ebola crisis.” Dems Misconstrue Trump Budget Remarks
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So, not only was the pandemic "dream team" expertise preserved, that actually bucked the trend by Bush and Obama of dissolving such units and then reforming them when outbreaks occurred. It also took three siloed directorates with overlapping biosecurity concerns and merged them.
What's your complaint besides no longer being a talking point?
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Here's what's "about right"; these nonsensical memes are as valid as looking for your future wife by calling phone numbers on the walls of truckstop urine stalls. The latest laughable example is the big Tapper reveal just a couple days ago: '
Trump Could Have Acted Sooner and Saved Lives Say Fauci.'
LMAO...that lasted what, less than 24 hours? And you people do this *daily*, simultaneously calling him the dumbest guy on earth and a mastermind criminal. FFS.
