Posted on 02/18/2020 6:57:28 AM PST by Red Badger
As the world confronts a coronavirus outbreak, Trump administration officials aren't sure "what information the president should receive."
One of the first signs of trouble in the White House came a couple of weeks ago, when Donald Trump published a tweet praising Chinese President Xi Jinping for his handling of the coronavirus outbreak. The American president said of his counterpart in Beijing, "He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack."
The Republican's gushing praise made some administration officials uncomfortable, largely because they believe China's response has been wholly inadequate and dangerously opaque.
It was against this backdrop that the Washington Post had an interesting report over the weekend:
"Although the United States has so far effectively contained the virus, some senior administration officials said there have been tensions within the administration over what information the president should receive, his posture toward China and what message to send to the American public."
All of this is obviously of great importance from a public-health perspective, but I was struck by the reporting that there's some behind-the-scenes disagreement between administration officials over what they want Trump to know about the emergency. I never worked in the Obama White House, but from what I gather, his team never quarreled over "what information the president should receive" when dealing with the Ebola threat in 2014, for example.
The Post's article went on to note that the president's perspective on the coronavirus outbreak has apparently been shaped in large part by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, who has reportedly told physicians "not to get too far into the details of the virus and the outbreak with Trump."
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Why not just tell him the truth? Isn’t that their job? Or are these more ObaMao/Deep State holdovers?
Please forgive, but I do not believe this,.
Assuming that this isn’t just “we need to figure out the level of detail to give the President” - which makes sense, I doubt that Trump has need to know of the microbiology and RNA structure of the virus or anything of that level of detail and attempting to brief on that level would be a waste of time unless it has been specifically requested - but instead is idiots playing gatekeeper... I see a bunch of people that need to be fired.
To be strictly fair, this could be the idiots in the media interpreting “We need to decide what level of detail we should brief the President at” as “we need to decide what to tell the President if anything at all.” Which wouldn’t be the first time.
I mean, I’m pretty sure Trump doesn’t need to read a microbiology report detailing the exact RNA sequence of the virus, etc.
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Seems like a non-story. The president doesn’t need to know the details that the doctors might want to talk about. He needs to set policy. Giving him appropriate information shouldn’t be hard.
The lack of a story doesn’t prevent story telling in today’s media.
The administration, and every administration, has people in it that think they are the smartest people in the room. They will tell the POTUS, only what they think he needs to know..........................
It did concern me when Trump wholeheartedly endorsed Xi’s actions.
But they'll tell MSNBC.
Our foreign enemies pale in comparison to our domestic enemies.
You idiots at the top... you are nobody … stop elevating yourselves and demoting our President. There is no fool like the one who is one and does not know it!
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So China’s response is inadequate and opaque. Who writes this stuff.
“Administration employees” say....
There are still Swampsters in the WH who talk to MSNBC.
Trump needs to “flip” most of his staff.
ASSIGN a true confidante to review everyone in the WH. Down to the cook. If they were hired in the 8 years of Obama they are gone in 24 hours. Next sift thru the GWB hires. Then fire any Clinton folks if they are there.
What a bunch of horseshit.
Well, obviously that means impeach.
More, Fake news again about our evil and dumb president.
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