Why Trump Tapped Pence for Coronavirus Effort

[RandySF]

And despite Mr. Trump’s efforts to calm jittery investors, stock markets plunged again Thursday. The S&P 500 fell 4.4 percent, the worst single-day slide for the market since August 2011 and leaving it 10 percent lower than it was a week earlier.

The president’s decision to appoint Mr. Pence to lead the coronavirus response came after several days in which his aides grappled with whether to name a “coronavirus czar.”

Mr. Trump said on Wednesday that he was pleased with Mr. Azar’s performance, calling the team that he has led “totally brilliant.” But White House aides, led by Mick Mulvaney, the president’s acting chief of staff, had debated for days whether the administration needed a point person to be the face of the response.

The decision to put Mr. Pence in charge was made on Wednesday after the president told some people that the vice president did not “have anything else to do,” according to people familiar with Mr. Trump’s comments.



https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/27/us/politics/us-coronavirus-pence.html

[Historic NY]

1. LOL no funeralsfor Mike to go to.

[Srkdqltr]

2. A scapegoat? Pence can take the blame if it doesn't go well.

[Wounded Bear]

6. A good plot has to have a fall guy...

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Because Ivanka was having her nails done at the time?

[Thomas Hurt]

4. Pence is good little christofascist lackey who will toe the line as Trump's Minister of Truth.

[edhopper]

5. He did it so he doesn't have to answer questions about it

And look more like an imbecile. He'll just say, go ask Pence.