RNC chair Ronna McDaniel’s defense of Trump’s comments to Woodward, to @chucktodd is not that there was a plan on the pandemic, but: “Think of what would have happened if he'd have gone out and said, ‘This is awful. We should all be afraid. We don't have a plan.’”
There was, of course, planning that had been done by the pandemic response office created under Obama & closed under Trump. Obama officials had sat w/Trump officials for a run-through of responses. Those got somewhat outdated, but the office was closed & no new plans were made
The defense here mounted to @jaketapper of President Trump’s comments to Woodward is that the *White House trade advisor* wrote a secret memo at the beginning of February saying maybe there was a way to prepare for a vaccine by year’s end
https://twitter.com/cnnpolitics/status/1305140675004989440?s=21
Two months after this apparent secret memo, Navarro was a prime proponent in public of fake cure hydroxychloroquine, arguing “Doctors disagree about things all the time. My qualifications in terms of looking at the science is that I'm a social scientist.” cnn.com/2020/04/06/pol…
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