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The leftists media and Dimsocialists continue to lie about Trump eliminating the Pandemic Response Office.
Biden has, for example, consistently claimed that Trump shut down the “pandemic response” office created by the Obama administration to deal with infectious diseases like coronavirus. On March 1, CNBC reported, “Biden accused the Trump administration of eliminating an office in the White House to deal with future outbreaks of pandemic diseases, which he said was set up during the Ebola crisis in West Africa from 2014 to 2016.” The story goes more or less as follows: Trump made drastic cuts in the National Security Council (NSC) that effectively “dissolved” the pandemic response office. Unfortunately for the former VP’s credibility, the person who led that office says the charge just isn’t true:
It has been alleged by multiple officials of the Obama administration … that the president and his then-national security adviser, John Bolton, “dissolved the office” at the White House in charge of pandemic preparedness. Because I led the very directorate assigned that mission, the counterproliferation and biodefense office, for a year and then handed it off to another official who still holds the post, I know the charge is specious.
That was written by Tim Morrison, who was senior director for counterproliferation and biodefense at the NSC when Trump’s “draconian cuts” occurred. What actually happened was that the president streamlined the bloated NSC, reorganizing some sections to accomplish that goal. In that process, three departments with roughly the same mission were consolidated. According to Morrison, who is now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, “It is this reorganization that critics have misconstrued or intentionally misrepresented.” Unless Joe Biden doesn’t understand the difference between “consolidation” and “elimination,” he is among those intentionally misrepresenting the facts.
Biden’s Unpresidential Coronavirus Rhetoric | The American Spectator | Politics Is Too Important To Be Taken Seriously.
Biden has, for example, consistently claimed that Trump shut down the “pandemic response” office created by the Obama administration to deal with infectious diseases like coronavirus. On March 1, CNBC reported, “Biden accused the Trump administration of eliminating an office in the White House to deal with future outbreaks of pandemic diseases, which he said was set up during the Ebola crisis in West Africa from 2014 to 2016.” The story goes more or less as follows: Trump made drastic cuts in the National Security Council (NSC) that effectively “dissolved” the pandemic response office. Unfortunately for the former VP’s credibility, the person who led that office says the charge just isn’t true:
It has been alleged by multiple officials of the Obama administration … that the president and his then-national security adviser, John Bolton, “dissolved the office” at the White House in charge of pandemic preparedness. Because I led the very directorate assigned that mission, the counterproliferation and biodefense office, for a year and then handed it off to another official who still holds the post, I know the charge is specious.
That was written by Tim Morrison, who was senior director for counterproliferation and biodefense at the NSC when Trump’s “draconian cuts” occurred. What actually happened was that the president streamlined the bloated NSC, reorganizing some sections to accomplish that goal. In that process, three departments with roughly the same mission were consolidated. According to Morrison, who is now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, “It is this reorganization that critics have misconstrued or intentionally misrepresented.” Unless Joe Biden doesn’t understand the difference between “consolidation” and “elimination,” he is among those intentionally misrepresenting the facts.
Biden’s Unpresidential Coronavirus Rhetoric | The American Spectator | Politics Is Too Important To Be Taken Seriously.
