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.”
Trump ignored Obama’s playbook AND he fired his own team leader; he fired the admiral in charge of pandemic response because that admiral was freinds with another staffer Trump didn’t like.
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/exclusive-us-axed-cdc-expert-job-in-china-months-before-virus-outbreak-idUSKBN21910R/
https://www.science.org/content/article/inside-story-how-trumps-covid-19-coordinator-undermined-cdc
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/nsc-pandemic-office-trump-closed/2020/03/13/a70de09c-6491-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html