Former president Donald Trump diverted a U.S. Navy hospital ship last year, in the early days of the pandemic, from Washington state to California as a show of favoritism, according to a new book.
ABC News chief White House correspondent Jon Karl published a new book, Front Row at the Trump Show, out Tuesday with new reporting on the former president’s decision in March 2020 to redirect the Navy hospital Mercy away from Seattle, where it had been deployed to help the region’s hospitals overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients, in excerpts published by Politico Playbook.
“Don’t you think we should send it to California?” Trump told advisers, according to Karl. “Gavin has been saying such nice things about me.” Continue reading.