If you believe in federalism, then it is not Trump’s fault. However, Trump should have chit canned FauxChi, Brix and others very early on during the pandemic.
Because the resulting chaos would have been better for the Nation than the slower process of deemphasizing their voices and highlighting their inconsistencies as Trump did?
Trump was left with bare Federal cupboards and with hospitals that were not stocked. He was busy inventing new supply chains and getting cities & states ready for the millions of deaths he was told were coming. If he had not spent his energies in that way and COVID had been as lethal as had been predicted the results would have been catastrophic. In crisis situation triage is the overriding principle. Only retrospectively when the dust settles can people feel empowered to nit pick in a vacuum.
To Trump's credit, he did bring in Dr. Atlas in August.