While government officials and public health experts have devoted years to efforts to enhance US preparedness for a pandemic, a key factor went overlooked: A president like Donald Trump.
Playing to a cheering crowd at a Detroit-area auto parts plant in January, the president railed against disgraceful Democrats, bad trade deals and the dishonest media as he touted his record of creating jobs"like you have never seen before."The brewing coronavirus crisis merited only a brief mention at the end of his speech. He wanted to assure his audience that his administration had it"very well under control.
"Everything we did was right," he told reporters at one point."The truth is President Trump took bold action to protect Americans and unleash the full power of the federal government to curb the spread of the virus, expand testing capacities, and expedite vaccine development when we had no true idea the level of transmission or asymptomatic spread," Judd Deere, a White House spokesman said in a statement to CNN.
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