Peter Navarro, can't you ever post something from someone in the trump administration who isn't under indictment. Navarro did try to warm trump of the covid virus but trump dismissed it. Navarro did award large sums of money to firms with unproven medicine. But Navarro was interested in rewarding political friends of Republicans.
Redoocs, Former Trump advisers used private emails to warn of 'critical mistakes' in pandemic response Source: The Hill Top advisers to former President Trump used private emails to warn of the government's "critical mistakes" in response to the coronavirus pandemic, even as the president was downplaying the severity of the virus, according to emails obtained by the House coronavirus subcommittee and released Tuesday. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=165915698 -- Donald Trump’s Last Chinese Scorecard: A Story of Many Defeats and One Big Change "How Trump Lost His Trade War "Is China Already Failing To Meet Phase One Trade Agreements?"" https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=162384613 -- Former Trump official Peter Navarro has admitted to a last minute plot to overturn the 2020 election that included coordination with Republican members of Congress including Paul Gosar and Ted Cruz. Former Trump official Peter Navarro has admitted to a last minute plot to overturn the 2020 election that included coordination with Republican members of Congress including Paul Gosar and Ted Cruz. -- January 20, 2021 May 2018 The Trump Administration disbands the White House pandemic response team. ---------- [Add to that here -- 2017-2020: Withdrew CDC staff from China Between 2017 and 2020, the Trump administration reduced the number of CDC staff in China — the presumed epicenter of the outbreak — from 47 to just 14, Reuters reported on March 25. P - "We had a large operation of experts in China who were brought back during this administration, some of them months before the outbreak," a person who witnessed the withdrawal of U.S. personnel said. "You have to consider the possibility that our drawdown made this catastrophe more likely or more difficult to respond to." 2018: Ignored warnings from CDC [...] Trump's "drain the swamp" means 'drain the expertise'. Excerpt from yours .. "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. [...] https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=164963124] ---------- July 2019 The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) epidemiologist embedded in China’s disease control agency left the post, and the Trump Administration eliminated the role. Oct. 2019 “Currently, there are insufficient funding sources designated for the federal government to use in response to a severe influenza pandemic.” [Source: The results of a Department of Health and Human Services 2019 influenza pandemic simulation] Jan. 22, 2020 “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” Jan. 24, 2020 Trump praises China’s handling of the coronavirus: “China has been working very hard to contain the Coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American People, I want to thank President Xi!” Jan. 28, 2020 “This will be the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency...This is going to be the roughest thing you face" Trump’s National Security Advisor to Trump Jan. 30, 2020 "The lack of immune protection or an existing cure or vaccine would leave Americans defenseless in the case of a full-blown coronavirus outbreak on US soil,...This lack of protection elevates the risk of the coronavirus evolving into a full-blown pandemic, imperiling the lives of millions of Americans.” [Memo from Trump Trade Advisor Peter Navarro] Feb. 2, 2020 “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.” Feb. 7, 2020 “It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu... This is deadly stuff” [Trump in a private interview with Bob Woodward from The Washington Post made public on Sept. 9, 2020] Feb. 10, 2020 “I think the virus is going to be—it’s going to be fine.” Feb. 10, 2020 “Looks like by April, you know in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.” Feb. 24, 2020 “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… the Stock Market starting to look very good to me!” Feb. 25, 2020 “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.” Feb. 25, 2020 “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.” Feb. 26, 2020 “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” Feb. 26, 2020 “We're going very substantially down, not up.” Feb. 26, 2020 “Well, we're testing everybody that we need to test. And we're finding very little problem. Very little problem.” Feb. 26, 2020 "This is a flu. This is like a flu." Feb. 27, 2020 “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.” Feb. 28, 2020 “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.” March 2, 2020 “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?” [Trump to health officials who answered "No."] March 2, 2020 “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.” March 4, 2020 “Now, and this is just my hunch, and — but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this. Because a lot people will have this and it's very mild.” March 4, 2020 “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.” March 5, 2020 “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.” March 5, 2020 “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!” https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=162888670
Nothing you could ever say would take away from the fact that Trump fucked up the pandemic response infrastructure other presidents had left him, and fucked up the pandemic response as badly as any individual could possibly have done.