Trump was not told coronavirus-infected Americans would be flown home from cruise ship

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Source: Washington Post

President Trump grew furious with senior advisers this week over a decision to allow 14 Americans who tested positive for coronavirus to return to the United States from Japan after being assured that infected patients would remain in quarantine overseas, according to administration officials.

Trump and the administration’s coronavirus task force were told last Saturday that Americans who had spent weeks in quarantine aboard the Diamond Princess luxury liner where the virus had spread to hundreds of passengers would be brought home on two chartered planes — but that patients who had symptoms or the infection itself would stay in Japan.

Trump was briefed on the decision and agreed that healthy passengers should not be on the plane with sick ones, three senior administration officials said. But the State Department and a top U.S. health official ultimately decided to bring back the 14 Americans who tested positive for the virus on the planes and place them in isolation — without informing the president first.

Trump has since had several calls with top White House officials to say he should have been told, that it should have been his decision ...

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-was-not-told-coronavirus-infected-americans-would-be-flown-home-from-cruise-ship/2020/02/21/ae58b24c-54be-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html

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Feb. 21, 2020 at 4:23 p.m. MST

[Skittles]

1. can you even imagine how much stuff Trump is not told

you just KNOW there's a shadow government going on

[cstanleytech]

2. See the problem with telling Trump is Putin will know soon afterwards so I can understand trying to

keep the moron out of the loop.

[Skittles]

8. I can understand that

what I CANNOT understand is continuing to agree to work for a known Russian agent - they all need to SOUND THE ALARM but it is obvious where the loyalties of the Greedy Old Pig party lie

[Silver1]

5. It should have been the CDC's decision

and no one else.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

9. ABSOLUTELY.

NO WAY SHOULD ANY OF THIS BE HIS DECISION. This should be the decision of MEDICAL personnel, MDs, infectious disease specialists, etc.

REMEMBER THAT THIS FAT FUCK IS AN ANTI-VAXXER, TOO.

[Igel]

13. And it wasn't.

State Department overrode the CDC.

And some DUers were upset at the decision, as well.

As for "should", that's not always the same as "legal." If all executive power is vested in a president, and the CDC is part of the executive branch, it derives its authority from that office.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

19. However, at no time does that prohibit the executive from deferring to those with the expertise,

knowledge, background and on-hands experience from working in those fields for decades. Last I checked there were NO infectious disease control specialists on the roster over at Foggy Bottom.

trump wants to have ultimate total control and power over everything. His qualifications for many of these decisions is ZERO.

[Hestia]

18. Exactly. Have you ever heard or have seen a outfit like this, where grown-assed adults are

are undermined every step of the way? I mean, actual functioning corporations and not some rinky-dink mom and pop outfit? No wonder he has to suck up {ahem) to his Russian overlord for money 'cause there ain't no way a person could make a dime running a corporation like this.

How many times do we have to read the words that he is furious about something? I wish someone with an actual backbone would say so fucking what. Maybe Hope Hicks will stop some of this until the election. Or start giving him special "Vitamin B" shots, like Hitler's doctor did every morning. Keep him too stoned to care.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. Shadow government, Deep state, I have a theory: ...

... there is a majority of competent, intelligent, civil servants doing their jobs capably, regardless of the lack of leadership or the lack of rational leadership.

I think the old Army words are, "continue to march".

[Skittles]

15. absolutley I do believe the same

it has to be excruciating

[bucolic_frolic]

3. He's furious all the time now

testing all gaskets ... 1,2,3

[jls4561]

4. You would think he would be happy

after all, these people will be quarantined, aka "locked up".

Just tell him some of these people are non-white and he'll be OK.

[BadgerKid]

6. But he's ok with Russian interference!

[yaesu]

7. well, that's too bad, the buck stops there. He insisted that Obama resign when we had an Ebola case

enter the country

[no_hypocrisy]

10. Understand this: Trump is a pathological

germophobe. He is terrified of illness and debilitation.

That was the reason why he refused to visit Roy Cohn when he was dying of AIDS.

In this present situation, it isn't so much that Trump wasn't told as much as the new information now allows him to be petrified that the corona virus will spread -- to Mar-a-Lago, Bedminster, the White House. We can all drop dead and it wouldn't matter. Now Trump knows that he can't negotiate with mortality or the specter of it.

[Dan]

11. I don't understand why Trump is worried

I mean, he said that once the hot weather is here the virus will die.

[SWBTATTReg]

12. These are Americans too, by the way...does rump know that or does he even care? What a...

traitor to his own people, Americans all. They'll be isolated and taken care, as they should be. rump has no say in the matter, to deny Americans their birthright as a citizen of this Country of ours.

[helpisontheway]

16. He is lying..He wants to be protected politically in case

it spreads here.

[Owl]

17. Exactly.