"Now I have them caught in the egg, now you will be well."
"In 2018, Trump's government fired the entire pandemic chain of command in the White House, and shut down the global-health-security unit both at the National Security Council and the Department of Homeland Security."
"Public health advocates have been ringing alarm bells to no avail. Klain has been warning for two years that the United States was in grave danger should a pandemic emerge. In 2017 and 2018, the philanthropist billionaire Bill Gates met repeatedly with Bolton and his predecessor, H.R. McMaster, warning that ongoing cuts to the global health disease infrastructure would render the United States vulnerable to, as he put it, the “significant probability of a large and lethal modern-day pandemic occurring in our lifetimes.” Laurie Garrett, Forgein Policy.
"The corrective blitz went late into the night and then continued well into Thursday, as senior officials held several closed-door meetings into the early afternoon gaming out how to finish cleaning up for the misinformation and inaccurate assertions that President Trump made in his prepared remarks, which were largely co-authored by the White House’s immigration policy adviser Stephen Miller and the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner." Asawin Siebsaeng, Erin Banco. Daily Beast.
