He just said: a leftist experiment brought us a worldwide pandemic. [View all]

[yellow dahlia]

NO! The grifter brought us a world wide pandemic. It has always bothered me that the reality has never gotten enough press coverage. I believe if the epidemiological experts and staff who should have been in place, in China, had been there, "we" could have stopped the virus before it spread. Disease surveillance saves lives.

The grifter reduced the CDC staff in China from 44 in March 2017 to 14 in March 2020. Many of the CDC staffers let go were Chinese nationals - they included medical and disease experts with deep institutional knowledge. Trump had cut CDC staff in Beijing from eight to four Americans. (I got these specific numbers from factcheck.org)

"CDC cut its staff from 14 to five during that time in the Division of Global Health Protection — which is charged with helping “to stop potential pandemics at the source." (from factcheck.org)

I initially saw these numbers in a Reuters article by Marisa Taylor on March 25, 2020. Here is an archived link to the article, titled "U.S. slashed CDC staff inside China prior to coronavirus outbreak". https://archive.ph/6mqrl

According to a March 23, 2020 Reuters article from Marisa Taylor, the Trump administration eliminated an American medical epidemiologist embedded in China's disease control agency in Beijing, in July 2019. "...Dr. Linda Quick, was a trainer of Chinese field epidemiologists who were deployed to the epicenter of outbreaks to help track, investigate and contain diseases." "As an American CDC employee, they said, Quick was in an ideal position to be the eyes and ears on the ground for the United States and other countries on the coronavirus outbreak, and might have alerted them to the growing threat weeks earlier." Here is an archived article. https://archive.ph/yLUCA#selection-991.0-1011.14

When the grifter is to blame for something, he always blames others. I have always believed (in my heart) if anyone else had been president of the US in 2019, we would not have had a world wide pandemic. We do disease surveillance for a reason.

The grifter did SO much damage in DJT 1.0, and I feared what 2.0 would bring, with good reason. I watch the everlasting destruction unfold every day.

He made this statement during a completely unhinged speech that he just gave at the U.N. And elements of that speech portend more damage and destruction. He is undermining our place in the world.