Thread by @TuffsNotEnuff

@Comey -- In May 2018 Democratic Senators sent complaints that Trump had used Bolton to remove the leaders of the federal pandemic response system.

Soon forgotten.

Today we know that the US had a top-tier system. Degraded by Trump to the Worst in the World.
#crimeofthecentury

Ebola stayed away.

SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 makes up for it.

The federal system had been implemented originally, very basically in 1955. A gift from Eisenhower's SEATO alliance, based on fighting plague & dengue.

Eastern Asia = 144 deaths-per-million

Trumped USA = 2,364 dpm

What Trump had Bolton eliminate:
-- The top manager, Adm. Riemer
-- Non-military staff
-- Liaison positions to Nat'l Guard and Agencies
Together with:
-- Border quarantine
-- Nat'l Tracking Corps
-- Antivirals/antibiotics
-- Positive pressure PPE

COVID became a national emergency in China, 21-Jan-2020.

Trump Administration = denial = "Like magic, it will disappear"

Thousands of deaths in Hubei province changed nothing. GHST projects were never reinstated.

Foreign Policy got this off:
foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/cor…

The Eisenhower-to-2018 system would have triggered border quarantine on travel from Hubei, 29-December-2019, and all of China on 21-January-2020.

At 144 deaths-per-million like eastern Asia, the US today would be well down, under 50,000 COVID-19 deaths.

But Trump had killed it.

How many are terrified of Trump and his goons?

NGO and Think Tank work in USA since 2018 omits the critical tasks.

They write up budget grabs.

Here's one of the worst. They spend $ 1 BB on nothing critical. Pretend to be doing original work.
csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/pu…

Even Michael Lewis fell for the stories. Unbelievably, in "The Premonition," he has George Bush initiate the very first pandemic planning in 2005.

Asia, of course, has been fighting dengue, plague et. al. for centuries.

Everybody screws a pooch sometime.
theguardian.com/books/2021/may…

Everything Lewis's "Wolverines" wanted had already been built.

They didn't know that because they didn't have the security clearances or White House NSC contacts for access.

Piecemeal training, sure.

The 3,000+ pages of planning docs had been sealed off like nuclear codes.

After the Foreign Policy article, corporate media dropped the story. Trump/Bolton from 2018 disappeared.

The specialists have to know that Bolton's tale of a re-organization was a lie.

The critical positions & projects didn't move. They all disappeared.
#crimeofthecentury

"Not to relitigate the past" = this is the biggest 2-man crime in the history of the United States

By far.

Overshadowing 9/11.

FBI, Congress & corporate media need to respond asap.

Trump's White House had an abundance of liars, but no #RealityWinner
#crimeofthecentury