The Clusterf**k President Trump Inherited

President Trump has pointed out that he “inherited” a woefully under-prepared system to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. The Washington Examiner highlighted reports from the Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg News which attempted to criticize the President but buried an important piece of information about the mask shortages. It turns out the Obama Administration is squarely at fault for the current lack of N95 masks, not President Trump.

Last Thursday, after a growing swell of questions arose asking, “Where’s Joe?” the former Vice President tweeted:

The Obama-Biden Administration set up the White House National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense to prepare for future pandemics like COVID-19.

Donald Trump eliminated it — and now we're paying the price.

— Joe Biden (Text Join to 30330) (@JoeBiden) March 19, 2020

The deliberately incurious Democrat Media Complex never questioned The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer for ANYTHING. EVER.

Lo and behold, from a source you would never expect, The Washington Post reported last week, “After Barack Obama became President in 2009, he eliminated the White House Health and Security Office, which worked on international health issues. But after grappling with the 2014 Ebola epidemic, Obama in 2016 established a Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense at the NSC. A directorate has its own staff, and it is headed by someone who generally reports to the National Security Adviser.”

The H1N1 outbreak originated in Mexico. Despite calls from members of Congress to do so, the Obama Administration refused to restrict travel with Mexico or close the border.

President Trump proved that theory wrong when he took the bold step of banning travel from China back in January. He got torched for it. Barely a month later, World Health Organization experts admitted it worked and saved lives. America has not, at least to this point, experienced the catastrophic outbreaks seen in Italy and Iran.

After 100 million masks were used in the H1N1 outbreak in 2009, it was strongly recommended the Obama Administration replenish the masks.  Obama and Biden blew it off. Charles Johnson, President of the International Safety Equipment Association said, “our Association is unaware of any major effort to restore the stockpile to cover that draw-down. ”The outbreak “caused a 2 to 3-year backlog of orders for the N95 variety [respirator face masks],” adding “the stockpile distributed about three-quarters of its inventory and didn’t build back the supply.”

The media’s blind rage and fatal arrogance compels them to repeatedly denigrate President Trump for his handling of this pandemic.  Don’t be fooled.  They want you ignorant and terrified.  They think you’re stupid.

But wait.  There’s more. 

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is now turning to targeting President Trump as part of its global disinformation campaign by aggressively pushing the narrative that this is the “Trump Pandemic.”

China’s state-run Global Times newspaper in a March 22 article, titled “Trump Pandemic Rages,” attacked the President’s response to the Chinese virus and promoted the anti-Trump hashtags (#Trumpandemic and #TrumpVirus)—claiming Trump has now “run into a brick wall.”

There is a direct relationship between the brutal and oppressive nature of the communist regime and the global spread of COVID-19.

Internal government documents have highlighted how the Red Chinese purposefully underreported cases of the Wuhan virus and censored discussions of the outbreak, helping to fuel the spread of the disease, which is now confirmed to have infected more than 383,000 people internationally according to data from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University as of 5:28 AM on March 24, 2020.