Former President Barack Obama said he gave ex-President Donald Trump a pandemic playbook when Trump took office — but he disregarded it.
“He ignored it,” Obama said during a rallyfor Vice President Kamala Harris in Las Vegas on Saturday. “And three years later, a pandemic hits.”
I remember this. They lost it.
Everyone knew for decades that a zoonotic corona virus was coming. We even knew it would likely come from China.
There was a whole plan for what to do. Treatment strategies, logistics, economic and national security issues, and Trump’s people literally said they lost it.