Trump Transition Team Was Uninterested In Obama Planning To Battle the 'Worst Epidemic Since 1918'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

During the transition, Trump cabinet officials and other aides were given a three hour brief and a hypothetical exercise in responding to a global epidemic.

Detailed briefing books were prepared by Obama administration officials for scenarios like this and others. They were later found in the trash.

As Politico reports, incoming Trump administration officials gave Obama officials a big “meh.” Consequently, coupled with the tremendous turnover during the tumultuous Trump’s presidency, the U.S. was unprepared, by choice, to to meet the challenge of this very real global epidemic that has beleaguered America.

In a tabletop exercise days before an untested new president took power, officials briefed the incoming administration on a scenario remarkably like the one he faces now.

The briefing was intended to hammer home a new, terrifying reality facing the Trump administration, and the incoming president’s responsibility to protect Americans amid a crisis. But unlike the coronavirus pandemic currently ravaging the globe, this 2017 crisis didn’t really happen — it was among a handful of scenarios presented to Trump’s top aides as part of a legally required transition exercise with members of the outgoing administration of Barack Obama.

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/17/1928215/-Trump-Transition-Team-Uninterested-In-Obama-Exercise-To-Battle-Worst-Epidemic-Since-1918?detail=emaildkre

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Sorta like when Bush/Cheney shit canned the Hart-Rudman plan on fighting terrorism

on our commercial aircraft in 2000. Republicans don't need any stinkin' advice from Democrats. And all Americans pay the price.

[Under The Radar]

2. Yes, I can see how that cut into precious grifting operations

[BeckyDem]

3. From day one they were deregulating to be ready to rob the American people.

That leaves very little time to plan against an epidemic. Priorities.

[coti]

4. Needed to get on to planning those tax cuts for the rich

and locking up kids in cages. Time well spent!