White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany claimed on Thursday that the Obama administration had left behind an “insufficient” pandemic response plan, and that Donald Trump had replaced it with a superior version that left his team completely prepared to face the current coronavirus crisis.
“The Obama-Biden plan that has been referenced was insufficient,” McEnany said during a press gaggle, citing the former administration’s pandemic playbook, first reported by Politicoback in March.
She then bragged that the Trump administration had instead put together “an entire 2018 pandemic preparedness report,” and “did a whole exercise on pandemic preparedness in August of last year and had an entire after-action report put together” on the matter. Continue reading.