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Old 04-18-2020, 10:38 AM   #101
Pete F.
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Originally Posted by detbuch View Post
But he did follow those procedures as outlined in chapter 3 Federal Government response. Too late And the "communities" response guidelines in the plan had not been fully followed by the state and local communities which were caught short handed and unprepared. His administration failed to take the leadership role, if the battle was against a foreign army would you expect the states to have the information and take the lead? Trump actually used federal resources to make up for that. And the previous administration had not replenished the federal stockpile so Trump had to do that as well as provide to the communities that which they didn't. He has been in office for three years, and his party controlled Congress for the first two of those years. Perhaps they could have funded the restocking that they blocked under the previous administration. And the federal regulatory agencies such as the CDC were slow to create a testing regime which it decided to create anew rather than use the existing WHO model, and it flubbed that a few times before getting it partially right (still not 100% verifiable) and accepting contributions from others--all costing that valuable preliminary time that would have saved more lives.
His JOB is to administer the federal government and the various parts thereof.
They do need to be led or do you claim that the office is unimportant, ceremonial and titular only? Like the Queen or King of the UK?

He tweeted yesterday about Obama/Biden, how does anyone rationalize that statement with his current claim that this is the Governors fault?

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Biden/Obama were a disaster in handling the H1N1 Swine Flu. Polling at the time showed disastrous approval numbers. 17,000 people died unnecessarily and through incompetence!

Trump will have really big numbers, much bigger than anyone else and he will figure out a way to brag, cast aspersions and blame.

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