McConnell Says He Was 'Wrong' To Claim Obama Didn't Leave A Pandemic Playbook "I clearly made a mist

[marble falls]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mcconnell-wrong-obama-playbook-pandemic_n_5ebded27c5b6ee0b69e82f3e


McConnell Says He Was ‘Wrong’ To Claim Obama Didn’t Leave A Pandemic Playbook
“I clearly made a mistake in that regard,” the Senate Republican leader said on Fox News.


By Nick Visser

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“I was wrong,” McConnell told Fox News’ Bret Baier. “They did leave behind a plan, so I clearly made a mistake in that regard. As to whether or not the plan was followed, or who’s the critic and all the rest, I don’t have any observation about that because I don’t know enough about the details.”

The senator sparked controversy earlier this week during an online interview with Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law and campaign adviser, when he went after the Obama administration’s handover to Trump’s team. He also lambasted the former president for criticizing in a private meeting Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 1.4 million people in the U.S., saying Obama had been “a little bit classless” and “should’ve kept his mouth shut.”

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In fact, Politico reported in March that the Obama White House did leave a detailed, 69-page document on fighting pandemics that included a bevy of measures the administration should have taken amid early reports a new viral pathogen was spreading overseas. At the time, a National Security Council official told Politico the document was “quite dated” and said the administration’s own efforts were “a better fit” and “more detailed.”

Trump has been criticized by some for being slow to respond to the virus as it first began to spread in the United States, but he has lashed out at those claims, instead seeking to blame Obama, the World Health Organization and even his own medical advisers.


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[Thomas Hurt]

1. Lol did it on purpose to feed the cultists

[elleng]

2. No sh*t, sherlock!

[sakabatou]

3. Not a mistake

You said it to feed your base.

[msongs]

4. maybe a subtle nudge to trump to move along and find some new shit to stir nt

[Blue Owl]

5. Not only did he leave a Pandemic Playbook

He demonstrated how to successfully handle a pandemic, preventing the Ebola virus from spreading by taking immediate action in 2014.

Had Trump followed Obama's playbook with Covid-19, and not getting rid of the CDC that Obama had put in place, we'd never be here in this health and economic crisis in the first place...

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Believe this is the First Time in Moscow Mitch's

40+ years he has ever admitted he made a mistake.

[TreasonousBastard]

9. He didn't make a mistake-- he's up to something

[BigmanPigman]

18. Good call.

[Wellstone ruled]

29. He is plotting a new

misdirection no doubt. His mistake remarks are a lead into something another cover up in the making.

[Aristus]

7. This is the result of McConnell playing to the cheap seats and the cheap people sitting in them.

But he forgets that the rest of us are listening, too. And we will call him out on his fecklessness.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. Everything to do with the drumpf regime is wrong.

[Xolodno]

10. Heh...I'm guessing...

...something didn't poll well for Moscow Mitch.

[Marcuse]

11. Lying is the official language of Trumpworld. Mitch is very fluent.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Moscow Mitch got caught in his lie.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

13. Wonder if Moscow Mitch received his hard copy yet?

See SoonerPride's post

[SoonerPride]

25. Hahahahaha thank you

[panader0]

28. Good job SP!

[SoonerPride]

30. Thank you!

[captain queeg]

14. In typical Fox fashion they shout out the false claim then whisper the retraction after the damage i

Is done

[TalenaGor]

15. all that's left is to figure out why Trump wants this virus to continue

I'd be willing to bet He's going to control the vaccine.... Like a fucking evil genius and make the whole world beg to him

[HuskyOffset]

16. Maybe he should, you know . . . shut his mouth (NT)

[gratuitous]

19. Seems pretty classless, doesn't he?

[gopiscrap]

17. how about that

[struggle4progress]

20. "I got caught, now I'll say I'm just ignorant and incompetent"

[malaise]

21. Have you heard anyone on M$Greedia say that he admitted that he lied about the

pandemic plan? Hmmmmmmmmmmm!

[malaise]

22. The walk back is being discussed now on Morning JoeScum

right now

[SoonerPride]

23. I mailed his office the pandemic playbook

I printed off the pandemic playbook and mailed it to him

So I guess I should take credit for this reversal?

[malaise]

24. See post @13

[Gothmog]

26. Ron Klain had fun talking about this playbook

Link to tweet

[spanone]

27. You fucking lied just like your pathetic leader