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riversedge

(70,051 posts)
Tue May 12, 2020, 06:01 PM May 2020

#MitchMcconnell LIED--he said Obama did not leave Trump admin a gameplan to deal with Pandemic..

damn.

This is a literal lie. The Obama admin literally left a “Pandemic Playbook,” here in PDF form, that Trump ignored. They literally did leave a “game plan.” https://politico.com/news/magazine/



Tonight's Team Trump Livestream features Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who, talking COVID-19, tells Lara Trump, "clearly the Obama administration did not leave to this administration, any kind of game plan for something like this."


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#MitchMcconnell LIED--he said Obama did not leave Trump admin a gameplan to deal with Pandemic.. (Original Post) riversedge May 2020 OP
Obama's people trained them! They did an exercise to teach them what to do. GriffenRamsey May 2020 #1
I'll say it again... Blue Owl May 2020 #2
i pity the auto that runs over it. riversedge May 2020 #11
Insurance wouldn't cover any residual damage Blue Owl May 2020 #12
uga uga. this conversation is too gross for me. riversedge May 2020 #13
The real message is: Chainfire May 2020 #3
What is "team trump livestream?" essme May 2020 #4
Lara Trump, campaign assistant and wife of Eric the Clueless pecosbob May 2020 #5
Good god--- that's right. essme May 2020 #6
Children of the Corn + Village of the Damned + the Omen pecosbob May 2020 #7
and toss in Hannible (?sp) of Silence of the lambs. I have always thought that was riversedge May 2020 #14
I didn't know this was a thing either. underpants May 2020 #8
I looked it up essme May 2020 #9
Where is the Trump-McConnell plan? Jarqui May 2020 #10
How the fuck would he know if Obama left a game plan? Solomon May 2020 #15
Moscow Mitch hates America. Hermit-The-Prog May 2020 #16
RETWEETED! Cha May 2020 #17
 

GriffenRamsey

(181 posts)
1. Obama's people trained them! They did an exercise to teach them what to do.
Tue May 12, 2020, 06:07 PM
May 2020

They acted like the petulant man-babies they are.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-appointees-trained-pandemic-response-in-2016-2020-3

"
In 2017, Obama officials briefed Trump's team on dealing with a pandemic like the coronavirus. One Cabinet member reportedly fell asleep, and others didn't want to be there.

In the days before Donald Trump's inauguration, outgoing Obama administration officials trained his incoming administration on how to deal with a pandemic.

Politico said it obtained documents from the meeting and spoke with more than a dozen people who attended the training, which was described as "weird" at best.

One member of Trump's Cabinet, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, reportedly dozed off, and others questioned why they had to be there.

When President Donald Trump visited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month as coronavirus cases accelerated in the US, he said that "you can never really think" that something like this might happen.

But it turns out the Obama administration did think this was something Trump could face in office and took steps to brief his appointees on how to respond to an outbreak before he took over in 2017."

Blue Owl

(50,238 posts)
2. I'll say it again...
Tue May 12, 2020, 06:13 PM
May 2020

If I were walking down the street and happened upon Mitch McConnell's severed head lying in the gutter, I'd fucking kick it into traffic.

essme

(1,207 posts)
4. What is "team trump livestream?"
Tue May 12, 2020, 06:16 PM
May 2020

I have never heard of that- bizarre.

And who is "Lara?" Please don't make me google it.

riversedge

(70,051 posts)
14. and toss in Hannible (?sp) of Silence of the lambs. I have always thought that was
Tue May 12, 2020, 08:36 PM
May 2020

the most horrible, creepiest show I had ever seen.

essme

(1,207 posts)
9. I looked it up
Tue May 12, 2020, 06:56 PM
May 2020

it's basically a youtube channel that I guess subs for a "state TV channel" or something. The whole family is nuts-

Jarqui

(10,119 posts)
10. Where is the Trump-McConnell plan?
Tue May 12, 2020, 07:05 PM
May 2020

Since they lost Obama's, they should have drafted one up?

Why haven't we seen it?

Where's the organization chart?
What has been done and when?
What are the next steps?
etc

Months into the worst pandemic in US history ...

Crickets, right?

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