Letter: Nothing is ever Trump’s fault
President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing on coronavirus in the Brady press briefing room at the White House, Saturday, March 14, 2020, in Washington. Listening from left are Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Seema Verma, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
By Paul Simmons | The Public Forum
| March 18, 2020, 12:00 p.m.
| Updated: March 17, 2020, 11:11 p.m.
I had to smile at the subhead below the headline in Saturday’s Salt Lake Tribune: “Trump says he bears ‘no responsibility at all’ for slow testing rollout.”
Of course he doesn’t. Nothing is ever Trump’s fault. It’s all Obama’s fault. After all, wasn’t Obama the president who dismantled the National Security Council’s pandemic directorate that was charged with preparing for the next pandemic in 2018?
Oh, no. Wait. That was Trump.
Paul Simmons, Murray
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