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Michele,

  1. #Trump stupidly disbanded the National Security Council unit responsible for preparing for pandemics like Covid-19. Of course, senile Trump now claims He doesn’t remember who did this.Eck. One more t**d to plop in the festering stew of Trump’s incompetence, evidencing how careless, unprepared, and unworthy Trump is to be POTUS.” Donald Trump has the best memory of anyone he knows, ... It's a very flexible memory. It's a very good memory of things that actually never happened, but he likes to brag about anyway, and absolutely blank when it comes to people he knew and ordered around but doesn't like now. So of course it's not surprising that Trump said last week he didn't know anything about that time in 2018 when he disbanded the National Security Council team charged with planning for a pandemic disease outbreak. He got very angry at "PBS NewsHour" reporter Yamiche Alcindor for even mentioning such a thing, calling it a "nasty" question…”
  2. Foolish Trump did not follow the step-by-step instructions He was given by Obama and Bush for dealing with pandemics. Trump was given the “answers” to the “questions” Covid-19 would ask of His administration, but He ignored them. That stupid move alone earns Trump the Dunce cap and an “F” for absolute failure. Here it is! It is public! You can read the instructions for yourself:
  3. Trump attacked the Center for Disease Control budget. This not only threatened programs here in the USA, it may have contributed to the termination of a CDC pandemic prevention specialist working with the Chinese government in China! The expert has not been replaced, even now, after Covid-19 became a pandemic and its Chinese origin has become clear!
  4. Having gotten the initial response all wrong, Trump proceeded to make matters worse by lying (as is His custom).
  5. Leaving national Covid-19 response mostly up to state governors, Trump then became jealous of the good press one of them got and reacted as He usually does when somebody “steals” His media spotlight. He then attacked the governors!

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