It is unlikely Trump True Believers will be daring enough to face the facts about how Trump enabled this health and economic disaster, but here goes. Remember that you can touch the images to zoom.
Please comment if you have anything to add or corrections that should be made.
Please comment if you have anything to add or corrections that should be made.
A couple more thoughts. Maybe the WHO should have been more proactive, however the reality is that White House personnel were very aware of the huge potential for disaster as of mid-January. (maybe even mid-Dec) Therefore Trump owns this disaster no matter where else he tries to point to.
16 comments:
How Hannity and Trump will mislead FOX viewers
Amusing Trump Montage
John, please provide the source for the statement "Trump Admin cuts public health funding."
Trump proposed the cuts but congress maintained CDC and NIH funding
https://apnews.com/d36d6c4de29f4d04beda3db00cb46104
I'm not saying Trump is doing a good job, I am saying your facts are in question.
AP Source Link for Kris
Thanks for the question. I will do some research where they got it.
Here are some of my sources, happy to hear questions if you have them.
BI COVID 19 Timeline
FP Reducing Preparedness
Kris, Does that link seem to support the above statement?
Or should I restate it as:
"Trump Admin cuts public health funding that is aimed towards pandemic preparedness."
This was an interesting paragraph...
"In May 2018, Trump ordered the NSC’s entire global health security unit shut down, calling for reassignment of Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer and dissolution of his team inside the agency. The month before, then-White House National Security Advisor John Bolton pressured Ziemer’s DHS counterpart, Tom Bossert, to resign along with his team. Neither the NSC nor DHS epidemic teams have been replaced. The global health section of the CDC was so drastically cut in 2018 that much of its staff was laid off and the number of countries it was working in was reduced from 49 to merely 10. Meanwhile, throughout 2018, the U.S. Agency for International Development and its director, Mark Green, came repeatedly under fire from both the White House and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. And though Congress has so far managed to block Trump administration plans to cut the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps by 40 percent, the disease-fighting cadres have steadily eroded as retiring officers go unreplaced."
More interesting pieces
Snopes Dd Trump Admin Fire Response Team
BI Early Errors
Now this is a Left leaning source, but they provide links
Snopes Did Trump Admin Cut CDC Funding
"Also in 2018, news reports circulated about an 80% reduction in the CDC’s program that worked in various countries to fight epidemics. That was the result of the anticipated depletion of previously allotted funding. But those budget cuts ultimately didn’t happen, CDC told FactCheck.org, because Congress provided other funding. For fiscal year 2021, President Trump has requested that CDC funding for global disease detection and other programs be increased further — to $225 million total, with $175 million going directly to global health security.”
The fact that epidemic prevention-efforts were scaled back in China gained new significance in February 2020 as coronavirus spread globally after it was first detected in Wuhan, China, in late 2019."
Now this has a lot of cool stuff
I guess my summary is that Trump and his Admin were not very interested in science or Global Assistance or observance. I mean he is the "America First President"... Unfortunately viruses don't care about borders when their hosts travel all over the world. :-)
So what should the slide say?
On the upside... Thank heavens Congress ignored his proposals. :-)
Lot's of details here... For better or worse. :-)
The Atlantic: Trumps Fault
Per the review.
I changed the line to say.
"2018: Trump Admin disbands National Security Councils pandemic response team and cuts some pandemic preparedness funding."
Any other corrections I should make or does it seem pretty complete and accurate?
I know you are going to believe what you want to believe, but I keep trying.
just facts
Trump Extends PREDICT too late
Jerry, See for your response...
More Facts and Data
WHO Warnings
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