To downplay the scale of the pandemic in the U.S., Trump inflates its scale everywhere else
The idea is simple: If it’s happening everywhere, how can anyone blame Trump for it happening here? He conflates breadth with depth, insisting that it’s just this big, massive, global thing to distract from how much worse it is in the United States.
Take his comments during a briefing Monday. Continue reading.
President Donald Trump says the U.S. military has an elaborate plan to distributed coronavirus across the country at rapid speed. But defense and administration officials say otherwise.
It is unlikely the military will be involved, either in the distribution of a vaccine or in deciding who gets those precious initial deliveries, officials from both the White House and Defense Department said.
Two defense officials told McClatchy on the condition they not be identified that the military commands most likely to have a stake in establishing a delivery strategy – including U.S. Northern Command, which is responsible for homeland defense, or the U.S. National Guard – had not been asked to plan or preparer for distribution. Continue reading.
President Trump on Friday unveiled the team leading a federal effort that he hopes will produce a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year, an accelerated timeline that has been met with skepticism from health experts.
“When I say quickly, we’re looking to get it by the end of the year if we can, maybe before,” Trump said in remarks from the White House Rose Garden, officially laying out the objectives of “Operation Warp Speed,” a public-private partnership to accelerate the development of a vaccine for the novel coronavirus.
Trump described the project as “a massive scientific industrial and logistical endeavor unlike anything our country has seen since the Manhattan Project.” He said the project would begin to manufacture vaccines as they go through trials so that a proven vaccine would be ready to distribute once trials are completed. Continue reading.
