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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump and his spokesmodel just said
that he had already prepared for a pandemic and they developed their own procedure manuel and even did a exercise on how prepared they were "under Trump's leadership".
This was just breaking on TV as he was going to board AF1, so there's no other info yet.
This is a startling revelation and Trump has never mentioned he had a playbook for (the) virus, let alone that anyone in his administration was using it or was better prepared or following this mysterious manual that just magically appeared out of thin air.
The press secretary had an armload of these supposed manuals, waving them around, but nothing was handed out to the press.
Another lie, and so obvious that such a manual pops up now when Trump is being excoriated for his failed
leadership.
Someone better release this manual!
leftieNanner
(15,182 posts)If they release an electronic version, we will all be able to look at the date stamp on it and prove it's a lie. That assumes that there is more than just blank paper in those folders!
BTW, this is clearly BS.
SharonAnn
(13,781 posts)leftieNanner
(15,182 posts)Learning from your mistakes is one thing....
But reveling in them is another.
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)"Every state for themselves!"
BannonsLiver
(16,531 posts)What is it with Republicans and binders? I dont get it.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)even if they did change a couple of words in Obama's planning and claiming it themselves-they still fucking failed
ProfessorGAC
(65,289 posts)So, they had a playbook. So what?
No advanced warning because the playbook must have called for purging the Chinese virology liaison.
Then, 85,000 dead, markets falling 20%, and 30 million unemployed.
Their playbook was useless!
C_U_L8R
(45,027 posts)MissB
(15,812 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)volstork
(5,403 posts)monmouth4
(9,711 posts)President, that had to rattle trumpy's rear. Blew that story to smithereens..LOL.
genxlib
(5,546 posts)It could not possibly have been utilized.
The response has been so haphazard that they were obviously winging it.
Even now, I would love to know what this document says. Even in hind sight they couldn't have written a document that described this response coherently.
Hopefully someone will put in a FOIA request for the document and details of its preparation.
2naSalit
(86,872 posts)Just like all those files of blank paper when he did that cosplay thing about his taxes back in 2017.
Hekate
(90,913 posts)oasis
(49,431 posts)kairos12
(12,891 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Were at war with the virus and everyone knows you cant let the enemy have a copy of your plans.
Ridiculous? Yes but I wouldnt be surprised if they make that claim.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)Obamagate! Obamagate!"
cayugafalls
(5,646 posts)We have known since mid march when the real playbook was released. If they had a playbook to replace it they would have mentioned it then. Instead they wait for a month and a half and then wave some empty binders and board the plane.
Bullshit. Even if they release it and it looks valid, I will call it bullshit.
Nothing this maladmin does is truthful, so eff off dump, you lie.
tblue37
(65,502 posts)Vinca
(50,319 posts)They got some kind of manual to follow and it was so worthless they threw it away.
Solomon
(12,319 posts)Because I knew Trump would be excoriated for his failures regarding the crisis.
This is all the result of exposing the playbook. Because it can be clearly shown he didn't follow the playbook he now has to pretend that he had his own.
lindysalsagal
(20,765 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)LizBeth
(9,952 posts)say he had his own manual. Who would lie so horribly. They were behind and not on top of it because of Obama and to come back and say they had it? Then the excuse for doing nothing, being behind is gone.
Weird weird
SledDriver
(2,059 posts)I mean the Trump cultists will of course, and Fox News will do it's best to promote it to the kool aid drinkers.
But do they really think that people are just going to go "Oh, see! I told you he had a plan all along". Is their attention span so short that they forgot we saw baby hands at a press conference in front of a table of reams of blank paper claiming it was his taxes, but you couldn't look at them? That he's been saying all along that he will release his taxes, but they're currently under audit? That they keep saying that they're going to repeal Obamacare because it's terrible and replace it with great healthcare which should be ready either in about two weeks, but they have yet to offer even one proposal?
I understand gaslighting, but c'mon.
maxrandb
(15,367 posts)Have you seen the fucking rubes at his klan rallies?
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)a better health care plan. The best EVER..
Keep looking kids.
lpbk2713
(42,770 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)Obama manual on pandemic response and then just slapped his name on the new cover.
This is how he branded many of his buildings, he didn't construct them, be just paid the owners for naming rights.
I still want to know where Trump's new plan has been hiding for all these many months and why - since he's touting it as better than what Obama did - no one ever followed the plan?
malaise
(269,237 posts)Now the document has been posted everywhere. Further, everyone knows that he and his goons shut down the division and even scaled down international links.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)At rallies and on Twitter and such? Because that's exactly what he did.
So unless it spells out all of that, I'm going to assume this manual doesn't exist.
Caliman73
(11,755 posts)40th in the world and ineffective ones at that. 3. Take almost 6 weeks to issue general stay at home guidelines. 4. Not accept a pretty good test from the WHO in place of defective ones from private industry and the CDC. 6. Not have adequate supplies of PPE AND not work in coordination with states to acquire it. 7. Step on the toes of states that actually were trying to make a quick and effective response. 8. Not sufficiently support people who lost jobs while giving Trillions to large corporations. 9. Push for premature easing of public health policies designed to minimize harm and death while vaccines or treatments are worked on. 10. Push ineffective and dangerous treatment and basically lie daily about the course of the virus.
That was the playbook?
The playbook counted on having 1.4 million cases and 85,000 deaths in 2 months?
Idiot!
procon
(15,805 posts)spinbaby
(15,091 posts)SMH
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)I had forgotten that Trump's spokesmodel also said that Trump ran a full exercise of their plan (just like Obama did) last August.
Todd noted that his staff researched for any evidence that any such manual existed or an exercise was ever conducted, but they couldn't find any public mention or reference to it either. He said that they are going to continue to investigate.
That's good news. The press corps is going to rip Trump to shreds. He's going to have to come up with a plausible story to explain why this document has suddenly surfaced. The press is going to demand to see it, everyone will suspect it's a fraud, but Trump thinks he can foist it off on the public because he's a genius and the rest of us are too stoopid to recognise a hoax.
Just like any other egg sucking weasel, Trump's just about run to ground and I, for one, look forward to the moment the coup de gras is delivered.
volstork
(5,403 posts)"perfect."
world wide wally
(21,757 posts)See what a man he is?
flotsam
(3,268 posts)and they wrote a response manual, then how could they claim "No one imagined" a pandemic??? Which is true???
procon
(15,805 posts)science guys were involved?
So many questions, and no answers!
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)and put a new cover on it.
Trump and McConnell kept insisting the previous administration left them nothing but broken equipment. Once the actual Pandemic Playbook began making the rounds on social media tRump and the gang decided to conveniently produce one of their own. It's too late, of course. Months too late. 80,000 funerals too late. But, there it is.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)The Keystone Cops would be proven as Planning Geniuses compared to this MAL-administration!
WTF.
What if THIS set of binders will be shown as a glaring falsehood from the Presser Sec who told us she would not lie to us?
Never mind. Rhetorical question.