Walter Isaacson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and presidential biographer. In this video he compares how past presidents handled major national threats with the current actions of our 45th president in meeting the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the following analysis the Washington Post reviews the first 70 days of the COVID-19 pandemic with attention to the consequences of the president’s decisions and actions.
Blood on His Hands [Boston Globe]
“[I]t took 70 days from that initial notification [January 3, 2020] for Trump to treat the coronavirus not as a distant threat or harmless flu strain well under control, but as a lethal force that had outflanked America’s defenses and was poised to kill tens of thousands of citizens. That more-than-two-month stretch now stands as critical time that was squandered.” [Washington Post]
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in 2015 and 1016, nearly every editorial board in the US foresaw that Donald Trump was grossly unqualified and deeply unsuited to the responsibilities of the Presidency. Now all but the most partisan sycophants see COVID-19 events that prove they were right.