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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI now have MAGA telling me Bolton shuttered NSC pandemic office because they were incompetent
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WTF anyone have info to fight with ?
Skittles
(153,113 posts)you know he cannot
jls4561
(1,253 posts)were incompetent
Brother Buzz
(36,375 posts)That's what competent leadership does.
Tell your damned MAGA asshole to put that in his pipe and smoke it.
Beakybird
(3,330 posts)Of course, where's his source?
JHB
(37,154 posts)What's MEGA?
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)That's the era he's returning us to.......
Yavin4
(35,421 posts)instead of hiring competent fire fighters?
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,488 posts)Maybe, just maybe a Walmart greeter on his very best day..... .......
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,494 posts)StTimofEdenRoc
(445 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,494 posts)the work of the real experts
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)They bring you to their level and beat you thru experience.
At best tell them we had the office. But when we needed it we did not and leave it at that.
Demonaut
(8,914 posts)welcome to DU
StTimofEdenRoc
(445 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)This in-depth article should be enough to sober him up. As with many decisions Trump makes, it seems like his primary reason for shutting down the pandemic defense office was because Obama set it up. Belatedly, long after the fact, Trump tried to make it a cost saving gesture, because endemic diseases don't visit the USA.
"When Bolton became Trumps national security adviser in 2018, he quickly moved to disband the White House National Security Councils Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, which President Barack Obama set up after the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak to lead federal coordination and preparation for disease outbreaks.
In April 2018, Bolton fired Tom Bossert, then the homeland security adviser, who, the Washington Post reported, had called for a comprehensive biodefense strategy against pandemics and biological attacks. Then, that May, Bolton let go the head of pandemic response, Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer, and his global health security team. The team, the Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, was never replaced.
At the time, the Trump administration and Bolton argued the cuts were needed to streamline the National Security Council.
Trump, for his part, has defended his record, arguing, Im a businessperson. I dont like having thousands of people around when you dont need them. When we need them, we can get them back very quickly.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/14/21177509/coronavirus-trump-covid-19-pandemic-response
MLAA
(17,250 posts)StTimofEdenRoc
(445 posts)Flaleftist
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