Trump Advisers Privately Admitted ‘Critical Mistakes’ Even Before Full Force of Pandemic Hit

As early as February 2020, senior advisers to then-President Donald Trump privately warned of the American government’s “critical mistakes” in the looming face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the House subcommittee on the pandemic obtained emails that put Trump’s fervid declarations that the pandemic was “totally under control” in stark contrast with his advisers’ warnings behind the scenes. In a message to Peter Navarro, Trump’s trade adviser, virologist and adviser Steven Hatfill wrote, “In truth we do not have a clue how many are infected in the USA. We are expecting the first wave to spread in the U.S. within the next 7 days.” He recommended “frank honesty” and “decisive direct actions.” Neither would come.

Hours before, Trump had crowed that his response to the pandemic had so far been “pretty amazing,” and accused Democrats of making the virus “their next hoax.” A few days after Hatfill’s email, Navarro penned a memo to Trump that his administration’s actions were “NOT fast enough” and that a “very serious public health emergency” was coming.

Read it at Washington Post


https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...es-even-before-covid-19-pandemic-hit?ref=home

 

Look at that, still pointing fingers, as accused by "senior advisers" doesn't hold more integrity to say unknown senior advisers, or not wanted to be named senior advisers, how about persons made to sound important and creditable, but none existing.
Rest assured they don't get more senior than we say, and you want to hear exactly that, so be it.

It would be a "critical mistakes" to mention the emails dr.fauci received in january 2020 that stated the virus was engineered and did not evolve naturally. They simply don't want you to know that, or when thought about, the conclusions putting that on a time line would create.

 

One thing I always find amusing is apparently treasonous conservative/Republicans are woefully inadequate at reading comprehension. So they just make shit up.

 

So the Right is making up all this shit about Americans and faithful American partners being left behind - people who are dying after watching their families beheaded - those people being left behind by your hero Joe, @stumbler - is that the Big Lie of the asshole left?

It's just so obvious how little you care about any human life - especially those that have chosen to be allies of the US.

Fuck them all, eh @stumber ?

As long as it promotes a Leftist agenda that even you don't understand.

You are beyond despicable - You and your kind are a crime against humanity.

You are beneath contempt.

 

Former Trump FDA Chief Scott Gottlieb: Trump's Use of Covid Policies as Political Wedge Issue 'Really Hurt Us'

 

Trump administration assumed 'everyone was going to get COVID anyway': Interview with ex-FDA chief reveals




Dr. Anthony Fauci facepalms while Trump talks (Photo: Screen capture)



An interview with former President Donald Trump's FDA Commissioner revealed that the administration was dismissive of any efforts to fight COVID-19 because they assumed "everyone" was going to get it anyway, and they essentially wanted to get it over with.

Speaking to CNN's Pamela Brown, Dr. Scott Gottlieb explained that he thinks the government should militarize viruses like this because it's a national security threat and existing structures aren't made to handle such a massive pathogen.

"I remember one White House official cavalierly saying to me, and this was around the time that then-President Trump was pushing for schools to reopen," Brown recalled. "They said, 'Well, we just need to get kids back in the class because everybody is going to get this virus at some point or another, and it's going to spread wildly, and there's no way to contain it.' It stuck with me how casual they were about that, as you just pointed out as one of the issues you didn't believe was actually true."

Brown also noted that after the H1N1 virus, processes were put in place to try and respond quickly to viruses like COVID. Gottlieb disagreed, saying that there was nothing in place to deal with a virus like COVID. He cited nasal swabs that weren't in the stockpile collection of items in the federal government's reserve. While there may have been medical equipment, ventilators, and a slew of other things, he said that they failed to anticipate the necessary things a virus like COVID would need, like the nasal swabs.

"I know we put in very detailed plans," said Gottlieb. "We were worried about a pandemic with the H1N1 flu. We prepped for a hypothetical pandemic, including influenza. We prepared for a pandemic, we just prepared for the wrong pandemic, and I think we found that in the preparations we put in place for a flu were not applicable to a coronavirus. And even insofar as they were applicable to a coronavirus, they weren't very good. The plans we put in place really weren't adequate. We tried to compile certain components we thought we would need but didn't consider a global crisis, and a pandemic is a global event, everywhere would need all the equipment at the same time, so all the supply chains would be demanded across the world and we would run out of them."

It was a surprising take because viruses don't stop at political borders. If a virus reaches pandemic status, that means it's a global disease. That would mean that everyone in the world would need the same medical equipment and materials at the same time.

The questions many had at the time were why the Trump administration was restricting access to things like building test kits or even running the tests from accredited university medical labs.

See the interview below

 

'So sad': Former Trump official laments he didn't push vaccines more as data show COVID is killing his voters

Brad Reed
September 27, 2021





Former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah on Monday expressed sorrow that former President Donald Trump didn't do more to push the COVID-19 vaccine to his voters during his tenure in office.

Writing on Twitter, Farah reacted to data posted by The Intercept's Ryan Grim showing that heavy Trump-voting counties across the United States have lost nearly five times as many people per capita to COVID-19 since the end of June compared to heavy Biden-voting counties.

"So sad," she commented. "Many of us pushed for Trump to focus his final days in office on trying to convince as many of his supporters as possible to get vaxxed, rather than focusing on election denialism."

Farah resigned as White House communications director last December, and subsequently publicly criticized Trump for his role in inciting a violent riot at the United States Capitol building on January 6th.

In fact, Farah revealed earlier this year that she decided to step down when she got the cold shoulder from Trump officials when she floated conceding defeat in the 2020 election.

"I was advised by the campaign to stand down," she said. "That wouldn't be the message. We weren't going to be acknowledging the loss, and they were going to pursue avenues to reconcile that."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-voters-19-vaccine/

 

'Entitled Know-It-Alls' Ivanka Trump And Jared Kushner Hijacked COVID Response, Book Says

Mary Papenfuss
Fri, October 1, 2021, 7:39 PM·4 min read
In this article:
“Obnoxious know-it-alls” Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner hijacked the nation’s first major response to the COVID-19 pandemic last year just as deaths from the disease were escalating — and botched it, former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham reveals in her new book.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/entitled-know-alls-ivanka-trump-013931401.html

 

Trump advisor told Steve Mnuchin he'd be 'the reason' the pandemic would never end: new book

Sarah K. Burris
October 05, 2021



Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin poses with his wife Louise Linton while holding a sheet full of dollars (Twitter photo).
Many of the post-Trump presidency books have searched for blame amid the COVID crisis, but former National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien made it clear, pinning it on Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

In Bob Woodward's book Rage, he describes President Donald Trump and his advisers linking his success over the COVID-19 crisis to the economy. Trump falsely believed that if the economy came roaring back that his presidency would be saved and his second term would be secured. Woodward made it clear that the former president never fully understood that to save the economy, he first had to fight the virus,

In Stephanie Grisham's new book, I'll Take Your Questions Now, the former White House press secretary recalled the debate over closing the borders and stopping flights into the United States, as part of the president's Covid response plan. Dr. Anthony Fauci famously argued that it wouldn't help because the virus was already in the U.S. and "stopping flights coming in from China" hadn't actually stopped flights coming in from China.

Ultimately, 430,000 people came into the U.S. from China after Trump announced his ban. Meanwhile, the virus was coming into the U.S. from Italy and the U.K. At that point, the White House team thought they could stop the virus by banning all travel.

They had to stop the virus, but Mnuchin was more concerned about the impact it would have on the already-tanking economy.

"He felt that the recommendation to shut down the borders was far too severe and the financial impact to our country and the world would be something we would not recover from for years," the Grisham book revealed. "The discussion got quite heated, especially between the secretary and National Security Advisor O'Brien, who at one point said to Mnuchin, 'You are going to be the reason this pandemic never goes away.'"

Mnuchin spent his final months in the White House traveling all over the Middle East. Just one month after Trump left office, Mnuchin announced the formation of his new hedge fund, backed by the same Middle Eastern nations he visited in those final months as Trump's secretary, Forbes reported at the time. As of Sept. 2021, the fund had $2.5 billion.



https://www.rawstory.com/steve-mnuchin-response-failures/

 

This is the kind off thing that is really wearing thing. All these former Trump officials coming forward now with testimony and/or tell all books now when they never had the guts to stand up to Trump and kept their months shut when he was president destroying the country and killing hundreds of thousandth of Americans. Try as they might I doubt its gong to work to wash the Trump stench off them.

Dr. Deborah Birx is talking to congressional investigators about Trump’s coronavirus failures

Travis Gettys
October 12, 2021



President Donald Trump looks on as White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx delivers remarks during a coronavirus update briefing
Dr. Deborah Birx is speaking with congressional investigators about former president Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The former White House coronavirus response coordinator is taking questions from the select committee investigating the Trump administration's handling of the pandemic, which has killed more than 715,000 Americans, two sources told Politico.

Birx has said since leaving the previous administration that her warnings about COVID-19 were censored, but she could provide specific information about Trump's response to the evolving science about the pandemic and share documents to show how the former president and his allies blocked scientists and public health experts from COVID-19 meetings.



https://www.rawstory.com/deborah-birx-news/

 

Huh.
Anon says that like its a bad thing ....

 

Birx tells investigators up to 40 percent fewer Americans would have died if Trump had supported basic COVID protocols

David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
October 26, 2021



President Donald Trump looks on as White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx delivers remarks during a coronavirus update briefing


Trump White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx told congressional investigators behind closed doors between 30 percent and 40 percent fewer Americans would have died from COVID-19 if then-president Donald Trump and the Trump administration had supported just the basic coronavirus preventative protocols like mask wearing.

According to Birx's statement, up to 295,000 Americans would not have died if Trump and his administration had supported the basic protocols.

On April 3, 2020 Trump chose to make the announcement to the American people that CDC was advising mask-wearing, and during that same press briefing he immediately announced he would not wear a mask.

"It's voluntary and you don't have to do it," Trump declared on national television. Repeatedly stressing the word "voluntary," Trump added, "I don't think I'm going to be doing it."

CBS News
@CBSNews
President Trump says the CDC is officially recommending Americans wear simple cloth masks in public, though this is only voluntary — and he says he won't be doing it https://cbsnews.com/live-updates/coronavirus-pandemic-covid-19-latest-news-2020-04-03/

3:49 PM · Apr 3, 2020

The New York Times reports Dr. Birx, who is an expert in immunology, vaccine research, and global health, told investigators, “I believe if we had fully implemented the mask mandates, the reduction in indoor dining, the getting friends and family to understand the risk of gathering in private homes, and we had increased testing, that we probably could have decreased fatalities into the 30 percent less to 40 percent less range."

Asked whether Mr. Trump did everything he should have to counter the pandemic, she said: “No. And I've said that to the White House in general, and I believe I was very clear to the president in specifics of what I needed him to do."

The Times separately today reports 737,526 Americans have died from COVID-19, and more than 45.5 million Americans have been infected.

https://www.rawstory.com/birx-tells...-died-if-trump-had-supported-basic-protocols/

 

Wonder if Dr. Birx is blaming biden for even more deaths than trump since joe hasn't made wearing a mask mandatory.
Quarantine mandatory. For everyone and everything.
Closed the borders.
Closed the schools.
Required regular testing. Of everyone.

 

Eh...we dont care what power hungry bureaucrats in the D.C. swamp have to say behind closed doors do we?..

Most of it's nothing more than noise...we dont really know if it was said or not.

 

Nor does it matter.
If Dr. Birx wasn't playing politics and wrong story wasn't bloviating it, they'd be talking about biden/harris and his failures to control covid.
They aren't.
So we know it's just bloviating politics.

 

Exactly how is it Biden's fault when people refuse to get the vaccine? It's like you standing there punching yourself in the face while screaming "stop punching me"!

 

Well, but trump didn't have a vaccine at all, did he?
As it turns out, trumps administration saw fewer covid deaths than biden/harris has, isn't that so? The latest reports are trump saw 352,000 deaths under his administration, and biden harris has seen 353,000 deaths in the same amount of time.
And Dr. Birx's main point seems to be about the lack of a face mask mandate from trump, which is also what biden has declined to do, isn't that so?

Now, one could make the case that if trump had made a full quarantine mandatory, and closed the borders, and closed the schools and required regular testing he'd have seen almost no deaths from covid. Isn't that the point of the Birx story from wrong story that stumbler posted?

And what we know is, biden/harris has not made a full quarantine mandatory, and he hasn't closed the borders (in fact, open borders and shipping untested ILLEGAL migrants all over the country), and he hasn't closed the schools and he hasn't required regular testing, has he?

So, if trump is personally responsible for roughly 175,000 deaths due to covid that were avoidable, and biden's administration has so far seen 353,000 deaths due to covid, virtually every one of them avoidable, with or without vaccines, then we can't hardly say biden/harris can blame people refusing to take the vaccine, can we?

 

Well, anon, you lie.
Trump had a plan. Remember? Biden called it racist.
When the vaccine came out it was biden/harris trying to cast doubt on the vaccine, not trump.
Biden did not implement a mask mandate. And, by the way, when the president issues a mandate, by definition it isn't voluntary. You might check the meaning of mandate.
Yeah, you were chiming in as the despicables around here were blaming trump personally for covid deaths. Now you want to throw your compadres under the bus?
And if trump was responsible for covid on his watch, how is biden not responsible on his watch.

 

Snicker. biden's in greece. I hope he drops his wallet.

 

They let him carry a wallet?
We started holding onto mother in laws wallet for her after she tried to give it to a stranger in the grocery store.
She told him he could take a dime and get some candy.