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Why Doesn’t Trump Just Blame John Bolton For Botching Coronavirus Response?
The shut down of the White House pandemic response team happened when Bolton was Trump’s National Security Advisor, and he was their direct boss.
We realize this is rather minor compared to everything else that’s going on at this time. But it does remind us how far we’ve come in the very short time since Bolton was making headlines. And, we remember it being Trump’s former National Security Advisor who spearheaded the dismantling of the White House Global Health Security and Biodefense team. Including firing or forcing out several officials with strong expertise in pandemics. (Bolton has busily taken to Twitter these days, denying any of this. But if you read the opinion piece to which he refers, it’s kind of splitting hairs. Yes, there were deep cuts to the National Security Agency when he was around. No, they weren’t only in the pandemic and bio-terrorism staff).
We remember that because it caused quite a stir at the time, including Trump standing behind the decision, saying he could bring those folks, or similar folks, back very quickly if he needed them.
Trump fired Bolton, he Tweets, because “frankly, if I listened to him, we would be in World War Six by now”. Trump…
