What Trump did was to move heaven and earth enable the pharma cos to develop a vaccine quickly. That alone was his accomplishment, he didn’t work in the labs.
So true. He in good faith thought they were doing the same.
For him to have said No he would have been impeached and removed.
The proverbial rock and hard place.....
Besides , where was “ Pious Pence” in all of this ....... After all he was in charge of the committee.
Trump as the CEO of America was doing what he should have been focused on.
Getting us out of the crisis..... He had to trust what he had to work with to do that.
Good faith or not certain types of developments cannot be speeded up without ratcheting up the risk sometimes exponentially so. Trump failed to take that into account because it was:
A) Not made clear to him, or
B) He assumed that the development would be like any other development such as developing a new resort. Subsequently he failed to adequately communicate the increased risk.
Also, if COVID was truly a civilization ending event like Bubonic Plague of the 1346 to 1353 was for Europe. (It wasn’t!) That the pharmaceutical companies should have been happy to share the risk. Possibly by doing the development for re-imbursed cost with say a dollar profit like Dupont got for its WWII atomic bomb work. Additionally, the USG owns the rights and an exemption from lawsuits. (WWII was serious & possibly civilization ending!) The other choice being government funded development with the usual business model and the risk of future lawsuits. (Oh yes nothing says I am saving civilization like exempting my “data” from examination for 75 years!) The companies would be “sharing the risk” with the public - the risk of speeded up development along with the publics risk of taking the speeded up “product”!
If Trump’s germaphobia is true. I think his “phobia” was manipulated so he would make a whole series of bad choices. However, good choices for the pharmaceutical companies, & good choices for the Biden campaign.
Continuing to promote and defend such killer jabs to this day, IMO, is unconscionable.
(And yet the state of our political landscape is that at this point I would vote again for Trump in the primary and general in 2024.)