I 100% agree that this could and should be used to show just how incompetent and unfit Trump is. If Pence fails, it is still Trump's failure for picking someone completely out of his depth to head the response.
I knew someone who had learned some odd management technique which he called, "Putting someone between you and the problem". It was flabbergasting to hear it said out loud. WTF? That is called "not being a leader". I understand delegation. When I was running a social rehab facility, I trained up my staff to be able to respond to situations when I was not available. I wanted them to feel confident that they could handle situations when I was on call elsewhere. I never put people in front of me to take any blame. If they failed then I would say that their failure was my failure as well for not preparing them enough or for not responding to something personally. I never ever thought of putting someone out there to keep the blame off of me. I was in charge therefore, I was responsible.
Trump is something else. He is a coward and a bully. He certainly put Pence in front to take the heat off of himself. He will not hesitate to throw Pence under the bus.
I do think that many people are starting to see through this but I do think that there are still many who would side with Trump rather than assign blame appropriately.
I hope that the virus can be contained because I do not want people to suffer. I do hope that if we cannot do enough to avoid a pandemic, that people realize that it was something that any competent President could have gotten ahead of but that Trump is fundamentally unfit to lead anything or anyone.
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