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Post by onelasttime on Jun 21, 2021 22:02:28 GMT
A new book is coming out about trump and the virus. It’s called “Nightmare Scenario”
From the Washington Post…
In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, as White House officials debated whether to bring infected Americans home for care, President Donald Trump suggested his own plan for where to send them, eager to suppress the numbers on U.S. soil.
“Don’t we have an island that we own?” the president reportedly asked those assembled in the Situation Room in February 2020, before the U.S. outbreak would explode. “What about Guantánamo?”
“We import goods,” Trump specified, lecturing his staff. “We are not going to import a virus.”
Aides were stunned, and when Trump brought it up a second time, they quickly scuttled the idea, worried about a backlash over quarantining American tourists on the same Caribbean base where the United States holds terrorism suspects.”
You think?
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 21, 2021 22:05:44 GMT
More from the Washington Post article….
“The book — which draws on interviews with more than 180 people, including multiple White House senior staff members and government health leaders — offers new insights into last year’s chaotic and often-bungled response, portraying the power struggles over the leadership of the White House coronavirus task force, the unrelenting feuds that hampered cooperation and the enormous efforts made to prevent Trump from acting on his worst instincts. The Post obtained a copy of the book ahead of its June 29 publication.
Since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, President Trump has repeatedly said that the virus will disappear. (JM Rieger/The Washington Post)
The book offers new insights about Trump as the president careened between embracing miracle coronavirus cures in his quest for good news, grappling with his own illness — which was far more serious than officials acknowledged — and fretting about the outbreak’s implications for his reelection bid.
“Testing is killing me!” Trump reportedly exclaimed in a phone call to then-Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on March 18, yelling so loudly that Azar’s aides overheard every word. “I’m going to lose the election because of testing! What idiot had the federal government do testing?”
“Uh, do you mean Jared?” Azar responded, citing the president’s senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Just five days earlier, Kushner had vowed to take charge of a national testing strategy with the help of the private sector, Abutaleb and Paletta write.”
”Trump countered that the U.S. government never should have become involved in testing, arguing with his health secretary over why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was seeking to track infections at all. “This was gross incompetence to let CDC develop a test,” Trump reportedly said as he berated Azar.”
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 21, 2021 22:11:16 GMT
And more from the Washington Post article….
”Trump’s top deputies adopted a similar strategy of issuing threats or isolating their rivals, undermining efforts to manage the outbreak, Abutaleb and Paletta write.
Kadlec, who had overseen the purchase of 600 million masks, took the plan in late March to Kushner — who exploded in anger, throwing his pen against the wall in frustration when he learned the masks would not arrive until June.
“You f---ing moron,” Kushner reportedly said. “We’ll all be dead by June.”
Mark Meadows, whom Trump abruptly installed as White House chief of staff with little warning to Mulvaney, also berated Kadlec as the federal government struggled to distribute a new antiviral treatment called remdesivir, whose use the FDA had just authorized.
“I’m going to fire your a-- if you can’t fix this!” Meadows reportedly yelled at Kadlec in a surprise phone call as the remdesivir rollout sputtered when scarce supplies were wrongly delivered to hospitals without eligible patients or appropriate refrigeration and the White House’s hopes for positive headlines slipped away.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 21, 2021 22:34:23 GMT
That book is going to be. major read! Backs up Woodward info too!
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Post by epeanymous on Jun 21, 2021 22:34:32 GMT
“I don’t like him, but I like his policies.” — someone or other
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jun 21, 2021 22:49:48 GMT
He cares about no one!!
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 25, 2021 22:46:21 GMT
Drip drip drip….
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 25, 2021 22:47:06 GMT
And then there is this…
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Post by lucyg on Jun 25, 2021 23:29:48 GMT
At this point, nothing that comes out would shock me. Good lord, he is the worst … and he almost invariably hired the worst, too.
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Post by hop2 on Jun 25, 2021 23:56:23 GMT
At this point, nothing that comes out would shock me. Good lord, he is the worst … and he almost invariably hired the worst, too. About who they hire: You know, I happily voted for Biden but it would be disingenuous to say I was a ‘Biden supporter’ especially in the sense that I’m buying signs & waving flags and can’t think of a better candidate. Light years better than the other choice hands down. He’s just ok. However, some of people he ‘hired’ for his cabinet! Those I’m am fans of! So many of the choices have been very thoughtful. Secretary Yellen. 👍🏻 Secretary Linda Thomas -Greenfield 👍🏻 Secretary Cardona 👍🏻 Now I’m a new fan of our new Secretary of the interior, Secretary Haaland. No comparison to Zinke at all. The cabinet picks are more different than night & day. |
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Post by onelasttime on Jun 26, 2021 0:59:45 GMT
Joe Biden was not my choice for President. But after 4 years of the other guy I agree with this guy…
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Post by pyccku on Jun 26, 2021 2:52:32 GMT
“I don’t like him, but I like his policies.” — someone or other But my 401k! - someone else |
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Post by onelasttime on Aug 5, 2021 16:24:47 GMT
As more stuff comes out about what trump tried to do once he lost the election it’s really a good thing there were actually people who refused to do what he wanted.
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Post by onelasttime on Aug 5, 2021 16:31:05 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Aug 11, 2021 20:47:48 GMT
Someone is not going to like this. 😀
But I don’t get this part.
“The judge said the committee’s desire to get financial records before Trump’s term in office was unwarranted and encroached on presidential powers.
“Due to its broad, invasive nature, the subpoena poses an appreciable risk to the separation of powers,” said U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta. “In the current polarized political climate, it is not difficult to imagine the incentives a Congress would have to threaten or influence a sitting President with a similarly robust subpoena, issued after he leaves office, in order to ‘aggrandize itself at the President’s expense....’”
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Post by onelasttime on Aug 11, 2021 21:08:28 GMT
This was the lawyer that all of a sudden resigned. It seems we know why now.
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