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catbyte

(34,501 posts)
Thu May 14, 2020, 02:08 PM May 2020

'Never heard of this': MSNBC wonders why WH never mentioned their so-called 'pandemic playbook'

Published 1 min ago on May 14, 2020
By Sarah K. Burris

The White House has finally crafted a pandemic playbook, according to Kayleigh McEnany, who announced it on the lawn Thursday. But over the past three years, no one has heard anything about it.

McEnany said that the Obama Administration’s report that was handed to the Trump White House when they entered in 2017 “was superseded” by another report that was crafted in Aug. 2019.

“So, I guess they’re making the argument that everything they’ve implemented is part of a pandemic plan they put together last August?” asked MSNBC host Chuck Todd.

“Which we have never heard of, Chuck,” said NBC News reporter Shannon Pettypiece. “And I’m, obviously, still looking into this and so are my colleagues. We’ve never heard of any pandemic preparedness plan. This was the first time they are mentioning it that she brought out these binders. We’re going to try to find more details. It seems unusual that here we are in mid-may that they’d now start talking about what their preparedness plan was.”

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/never-heard-of-this-msnbc-wonders-why-white-house-never-mentioned-their-so-called-pandemic-playbook-before-today/

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'Never heard of this': MSNBC wonders why WH never mentioned their so-called 'pandemic playbook' (Original Post) catbyte May 2020 OP
I guess the binders must be empty because their play was to do NOTHING but send people to die. onecaliberal May 2020 #1
They just made that up malaise May 2020 #2
And it's a beautiful playbook. In fact, it's perfect. PA Democrat May 2020 #3
If they had it padah513 May 2020 #4
Cause if they HAD used it, the martians would have attacked us. Volaris May 2020 #17
It's the Trump WH. If the answer is yes, it's a lie. If the answer is no, it's also a lie. DTomlinson May 2020 #24
It's like the "Doomsday Machine". Turbineguy May 2020 #5
Melania wrote it. She's great at using copy/paste with no attributions. TheBlackAdder May 2020 #6
And like that, it becomes truth to the Trump Administartion NCDem47 May 2020 #7
Is this like Romney's binders? True Blue American May 2020 #8
No. Romney probably did have those "binders full of women"... JHB May 2020 #14
Produce one email, document, phone call recording, video clip or any other proof brewens May 2020 #9
I bet they just reprinted President Obama's book and slapped the name of MF45 on the cover. kimbutgar May 2020 #10
Just like when Melanie plagiarised Michelle Obama's speech after the election. NoRoadUntravelled May 2020 #20
Don't you all get it? PCIntern May 2020 #11
maybe she was thinking of this briefing when she went with this. dsc May 2020 #12
Their plan- Do nothing for 3 years, Fire experts, Steal masks from veterans EleanorR May 2020 #13
Lets assume for a minute that he did have a 2019 "playbook" Chainfire May 2020 #15
It's just the same old put-your-head-between-your-legs plan. tavernier May 2020 #16
It probably has 4 pages. woodsprite May 2020 #18
tRump admin wants us to believe they wrote a Pandemic Playbook before the pandemic NoRoadUntravelled May 2020 #19
Either way, they're lying. Classic Trump admin stuff. DTomlinson May 2020 #23
The lies are becoming so outlandish NoRoadUntravelled May 2020 #25
Really? ThoughtCriminal May 2020 #21
You mean to say that the Trump administration has been lying and withholding critical information? DTomlinson May 2020 #22
The White House would love to show us the playbook gratuitous May 2020 #26
Mark my words: Trump will claim that the report written after the 2019 drill is their "playbook" and blitzen May 2020 #27
I was really hoping onethatcares May 2020 #28
Probably the same playbook they claimed the previous administration never made. Reader Rabbit May 2020 #29
His plan was to.let the virus to wash.over the country Texaswitchy May 2020 #30
Did it say to ignore and then call it no worse than the flu and when that didn't work, SammyWinstonJack May 2020 #31

PA Democrat

(13,225 posts)
3. And it's a beautiful playbook. In fact, it's perfect.
Thu May 14, 2020, 02:13 PM
May 2020

Just like those beautiful test kits that didn't exist and the perfect phone call with the president of Ukraine.

Volaris

(10,275 posts)
17. Cause if they HAD used it, the martians would have attacked us.
Thu May 14, 2020, 02:39 PM
May 2020

And you can bet your sweet bippy, that that sentence up there is more truthful, and makes more sense contextually, than whatever silly and half-assed bullshit they come up with as an actual answer, tomorrow.

 

DTomlinson

(411 posts)
24. It's the Trump WH. If the answer is yes, it's a lie. If the answer is no, it's also a lie.
Thu May 14, 2020, 02:53 PM
May 2020

That's a pretty safe rule of thumb, in my experience.

Turbineguy

(37,385 posts)
5. It's like the "Doomsday Machine".
Thu May 14, 2020, 02:16 PM
May 2020

Dr. Strangelove: "Why did you keep it a secret?"

Fiction in both cases.

TheBlackAdder

(28,237 posts)
6. Melania wrote it. She's great at using copy/paste with no attributions.
Thu May 14, 2020, 02:17 PM
May 2020

.

Five words will be changed on each page so they can't claim it was just Obama's Pandemic Playbook.

.

NCDem47

(2,252 posts)
7. And like that, it becomes truth to the Trump Administartion
Thu May 14, 2020, 02:18 PM
May 2020

No one will ever see this playbook.

It's just mentioned.

A binder is waved around as "proof."

All to get through the next 24 hours.

Deplorables will swear its real, because, to them, saying it's so, makes it so.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Put it in the dust bin with the other 18,000 Trump lies.

JHB

(37,163 posts)
14. No. Romney probably did have those "binders full of women"...
Thu May 14, 2020, 02:31 PM
May 2020

As silly as phrasing it like that was, he probably did have career summaries and bios for post candidates in a binder for his review.

This is just hot air. Anything g they wave around will just be a prop.

brewens

(13,634 posts)
9. Produce one email, document, phone call recording, video clip or any other proof
Thu May 14, 2020, 02:22 PM
May 2020

even mentioning the "playbook". Just one. Anything. We'll wait.

I just watched Dr. Strangelove again recently. That reminds me of the scene where Dr. Strangelove asks, "what is the point of a deterrent, if you keep it secret?" Or something real close to that.

Unless the playbook was instructions to deny, then lie to and manipulate your followers, promote snake oil cures, manipulate the markets, tip off your investor buddies on upcoming announcements, profiteer and loot as much as possible. Did I leave anything out? A playbook outlining those moves I would believe. I doubt they could show they even had that documented before today.

Chainfire

(17,672 posts)
15. Lets assume for a minute that he did have a 2019 "playbook"
Thu May 14, 2020, 02:33 PM
May 2020

I wonder if it suggested that 85,000 deaths in a couple of months was a considered big success? Too much of those kinds of successes could be painful. Trump stumbled his way through this whole process from two weeks to a month behind. Now he is trying to make up for it by getting it a month or two ahead.

Trump's motto must be, "If there is a way to fuck something up, I will find it."


woodsprite

(11,936 posts)
18. It probably has 4 pages.
Thu May 14, 2020, 02:43 PM
May 2020

1) Deny, deny, deny
2) Let the Liberals die
3) Grift any and all possible ways
4) Declare martial law to usher in a 100 yr reign of the GOP

NoRoadUntravelled

(2,626 posts)
19. tRump admin wants us to believe they wrote a Pandemic Playbook before the pandemic
Thu May 14, 2020, 02:45 PM
May 2020

and decided to let tens of thousands of people die rather than use it?

Huh.

NoRoadUntravelled

(2,626 posts)
25. The lies are becoming so outlandish
Thu May 14, 2020, 03:09 PM
May 2020

you'd think the devotees would see through them by now. Maybe there really is no hope for them to change their mind. Faithful down to the last drop of bleach enhanced Kool-Aid.

ThoughtCriminal

(14,050 posts)
21. Really?
Thu May 14, 2020, 02:50 PM
May 2020

There were binders full of plans to stumble about, lie, and minimize the threat until it was a crisis?

Must have been some great meetings.

 

DTomlinson

(411 posts)
22. You mean to say that the Trump administration has been lying and withholding critical information?
Thu May 14, 2020, 02:52 PM
May 2020

All I can say is "I've near heard of that."

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
26. The White House would love to show us the playbook
Thu May 14, 2020, 03:15 PM
May 2020

But it's being audited by the IRS. So, no, you can't see it.

blitzen

(4,572 posts)
27. Mark my words: Trump will claim that the report written after the 2019 drill is their "playbook" and
Thu May 14, 2020, 03:22 PM
May 2020

that it is better than Obama's.

Meanwhile, he will pretend that this bullshit claim--even if it were true--does not contradict his famous oft-repeated claim that nobody could have seen this coming.

onethatcares

(16,199 posts)
28. I was really hoping
Thu May 14, 2020, 03:25 PM
May 2020

that he was gonna step back into Marine One's rotor blades as he introduced McEnany with that folder.

Reader Rabbit

(2,624 posts)
29. Probably the same playbook they claimed the previous administration never made.
Thu May 14, 2020, 03:26 PM
May 2020

They'll change around a few things and claim that it's theirs.

SammyWinstonJack

(44,130 posts)
31. Did it say to ignore and then call it no worse than the flu and when that didn't work,
Thu May 14, 2020, 03:33 PM
May 2020

says it was the new Democrat ( ) hoax and swear it would miraculously go away in April...and on and on and on. Any way, just more lies from the pathological liars.


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