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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaryland's GOP Gov. Larry Hogan brutally rips Trump's 'hopeless' response to COVID-19
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/marylands-gop-gov-larry-hogan-brutally-rips-trumps-hopeless-response-to-covid-19/Marylands GOP Gov. Larry Hogan brutally rips Trumps hopeless response to COVID-19
Published 40 mins ago
on July 16, 2020
By Travis Gettys
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan excoriated President Donald Trumps handling of the coronavirus pandemic in a new Washington Post op-ed.
The Republican governor famously enlisted his wife, who was born in raised in South Korea, to ask that countrys president Moon Jae-in for help securing COVID-19 test kits in the early days of the pandemic, a month after Trump insisted anyone who wanted one could get tested.
This should not have been necessary, Hogan wrote. Id watched as the president downplayed the outbreaks severity and as the White House failed to issue public warnings, draw up a 50-state strategy, or dispatch medical gear or lifesaving ventilators from the national stockpile to American hospitals.
Eventually, it was clear that waiting around for the president to run the nations response was hopeless, he added. If we delayed any longer, wed be condemning more of our citizens to suffering and death. So every governor went their own way, which is how the United States ended up with such a patchwork response. I did the best I could for Maryland. Heres what we saw and heard from Washington along the way.
Eventually, it was clear that waiting around for the president to run the nations response was hopeless, he added. If we delayed any longer, wed be condemning more of our citizens to suffering and death. So every governor went their own way, which is how the United States ended up with such a patchwork response. I did the best I could for Maryland. Heres what we saw and heard from Washington along the way.
Hogan, who had considered challenging Trump in the 2020 GOP primary, then laid out in painstaking detail damning evidence of the presidents dereliction of duty.
So many nationwide actions could have been taken in those early days but werent, Hogan said. While other countries were racing ahead with well-coordinated testing regimes, the Trump administration bungled the effort. The test used by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention early on was fraught with inaccuracies, and onerous regulations hindered the nations private labs. The resulting disorganization would delay mass testing for almost two months and leave the nation largely in the dark as the epidemic spread.
Meanwhile, instead of listening to his own public health experts, the president was talking and tweeting like a man more concerned about boosting the stock market or his reelection plans, he added.
Meanwhile, instead of listening to his own public health experts, the president was talking and tweeting like a man more concerned about boosting the stock market or his reelection plans, he added.
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Maryland's GOP Gov. Larry Hogan brutally rips Trump's 'hopeless' response to COVID-19 (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jul 2020
OP
fractures with in GOPland is always great for democrats, the writing is on the wall
beachbumbob
Jul 2020
#1
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)1. fractures with in GOPland is always great for democrats, the writing is on the wall
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)2. Does this mean that Hogan is not coming to the convention?
malaise
(269,237 posts)3. Get thee to the greatest page
RFN!
yellowcanine
(35,703 posts)4. Needs to take the next step and endorse Biden.
Otherwise it is just words, Governor.
mantis49
(816 posts)5. Since I detest the RawStory web site, here's link to original source.
babylonsister
(171,104 posts)6. I'd prefer that, too, but
have not paid for the pleasure of reading their articles, so the wapo won't let me. So, I go elsewhere.