Biden: Trump has left US unprepared to respond to epidemic
Former Vice President Joe Biden wrote Monday that President Trump is the worst possible person to deal with the outbreak of coronavirus.
Biden, a leading Democratic presidential candidate, wrote an op-ed in USA Today calling out Trump for moves he said have weakened global health security and touting his own response to the Ebola outbreak in 2014.
Trumps demonstrated failures of judgment and his repeated rejection of science make him the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health challenge, Biden wrote.
Biden pointed to proposed cuts in Trumps budgets to agencies like the National Institutes of Health and the 2018 departure of the White House official in charge of responding to outbreaks.
So far, Trump has blithely tweeted that it will all work out well, Biden wrote. Yet the steps he has taken as president have only weakened our capacity to respond.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/480095-biden-trump-is-worst-possible-person-to-deal-with-coronavirus-outbreak