The inside story of how Trump's denial, mismanagement and magical thinking led to the pandemic's dar
Source: Washington Post
As the number of coronavirus cases ticked upward in mid-November worse than the frightening days of spring and ahead of an expected surge after families congregated for Thanksgiving four doctors on President Trumps task force decided to stage an intervention.
After their warnings had gone largely unheeded for months in the dormant West Wing, Deborah Birx, Anthony S. Fauci, Stephen Hahn and Robert Redfield together sounded new alarms, cautioning of a dark winter to come without dramatic action to slow community spread.
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, among the many Trump aides who were infected with the virus this fall, was taken aback, according to three senior administration officials with knowledge of the discussions. He told the doctors he did not believe their troubling data assessment. And he accused them of outlining problems without prescribing solutions.
The doctors explained that the solutions were simple and had long been clear among them, to leverage the power of the presidential bully pulpit to persuade all Americans to wear masks, especially the legions of Trump supporters refusing to do so, and to dramatically expand testing.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/trump-covid-pandemic-dark-winter/
JohnnyLib2
(11,212 posts)I believe Maddow and others had covered many key points, but reading them in sequence is beyond appalling. Thanks for posting here.
Irish_Dem
(47,058 posts)I think I saw this movie already. But now it is real.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,985 posts)Cha
(297,220 posts)Epitaph.
patphil
(6,176 posts)Maybe both.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)Which I'm guessing is slated for Florida? New York definitely doesn't want it.
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)And escort the loons to jail cells...
Flynn had suggested earlier this week that Trump could invoke martial law as part of his efforts to overturn the election that he lost to President-elect Joe Biden -- an idea that arose again during the meeting in the Oval Office, one of the people said. It wasn't clear whether Trump endorsed the idea, but others in the room forcefully pushed back and shot it down.
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)This is an excellent and painful summation of the Trump response. I found the tidbit about Stephen Miller et al encouraging Trump to use masks as a wedge issue interesting. I'd love to hear more details.