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https://www.politicususa.com/2020/03/16/obama-white-house-warned-trump-in-2017-about-potential-global-pandemic.html
Posted on Mon, Mar 16th, 2020 by Sean Colarossi
The Obama White House Warned Trump In 2017 About A Potential Global Pandemic
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elleng
(130,865 posts)not warned that one would occur.
AND most of the employees who attended the briefing(s) are no longer WH employees.
babylonsister
(171,057 posts)elleng
(130,865 posts)about mechanisms; it's up to leaders to encourage their use. Sounded like they were/are rather mechanistic.
C_U_L8R
(45,000 posts)Just like War of the Worlds.
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)So of course he ignored this.
Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)I swear he never made it to adulthood. I've worked with middle school kids that are more mature than he is.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,455 posts)Is the SS Trump taking on water?
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)It is amazing. The Obama administration pretty much provided an outline of what might happen and what to do, and the Trump administration decided to do the opposite it seems.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/16/trump-inauguration-warning-scenario-pandemic-132797
In a sober briefing, Trumps incoming team learned that the disease was an emerging pandemic a strain of novel influenza known as H9N2 and that health systems were crashing in Asia, overwhelmed by the demand.
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Obama aides, in op-eds and essays ripping the Trump administrations handling of the coronavirus, officially called COVID-19, have pointed to the Jan. 13, 2017, session as a key example of their effort to press the importance of pandemic preparedness to their successors.
In a Friday op-ed, Susan Rice, Obamas national security adviser, blasted Trump for comments such as you can never really think that a pandemic like the coronavirus is going to happen. She mentioned the 2017 session as one of many instances of the Obama administrations efforts to help their successor be ready for such a challenge. She also slammed the Trump team for dismantling the National Security Council section that would play a lead role in organizing the U.S. response to a global pandemic.
Kablooie
(18,628 posts)And the same kind of response from the Republican.
Hassler
(3,376 posts)Whatever is the opposite of successful, competent, educated, articulate, smart and popular, you'll find the Drumpfster Fire.