'An examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response.'
- New York Times,
He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus, April 11, 2020
'Addendum 2
No Doubt Due to Backlash
Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner not on task force focused on reopening country, president says.''
Check out Trump's Council on Re-Opening America. It includes no one in the medical profession.
It would be difficult to assemble a more ridiculous team without purposely attempting to do so, but there it is.Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner? Had I not seen the list of names, I might have guessed this was straight from The Onion.
Then again, it's always important to keep in mind, we are discussing Donald Trump.
Not only did Trump hand pick a ridiculous team, he Tweeted that it was his right and his right alone to re-open the economy.
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Trump is attempting a blatant hijacking of states' rights.
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He cannot and will not reopen states if governors refuse to go along.
Trump's attempt to claim he and he alone has the right to make the decision to reopen states is not only fake news, it's a dangerous attempt at usurping states' Constitutional rights.
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Addendum 2No Doubt Due to Backlash
Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner not on task force focused on reopening country, president says'
- Mike "Mish" Shedlock,
Trump's Council to Re-Open America is a Basket of Buffoonery, April 14, 2020
Context'..Trump claims 'total' authority..'