McConnell Admits He Was ‘Wrong’ On Obama’s Pandemic Planning

In an online discussion on Monday with the Trump campaign, Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell launched a peculiar and factually challenged attack at former President Barack Obama.

“They claim pandemics only happen once every hundred years, but what if that’s no longer true?” McConnell said to Lara Trump. “We want to be early, ready for the next one, because clearly the Obama administration did not leave to this administration any kind of game plan for something like this.”

It was an odd argument to make because Trump had been president for three years when the pandemic began. That’s long past the time he can plausibly blame the previous administration for failing to prepare for a disaster. If there was a gap in Obama’s disaster preparedness plans, Trump had had enough time to fix it. Continue reading.