https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/14/politics/mitch-mcconnell-obama-coronavirus-pandemic/index.html Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell conceded Thursday night that he was wrong to claim that the Obama administration had not left behind a plan to deal with a pandemic in the US. "I was wrong. They did leave behind a plan, so I clearly made a mistake in that regard," McConnell said during an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier. The concession comes days after he falsely accused the Obama administration of failing to leave the Trump administration "any kind of game plan" for something like the coronavirus pandemic during a Trump campaign online chat with Lara Trump, the President's daughter-in-law. "They claim pandemics only happen once every hundred years but what if that's no longer true? We want to be early, ready for the next one, because clearly the Obama administration did not leave to this administration any kind of game plan for something like this," McConnell had said Monday. In reality, former President Barrack Obama's White House National Security Council left the Trump administration a detailed document on how to respond to a pandemic. The document, whose existence was publicly revealed by Politico in March, is called the Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents. The playbook contains step-by-step advice on questions to ask, decisions to make and which federal agencies are responsible for what. It includes sample documents that officials could use for inter-agency meetings. And it explicitly lists novel coronaviruses as one of the kinds of pathogens that could require a major response. Additionally, outgoing senior Obama officials also led an in-person pandemic response exercise for senior incoming Trump officials in January 2017 -- as required by a new law on improving presidential transitions that Obama signed in 2016. Last week, Obama described the Trump administration's coronavirus response as "an absolute chaotic disaster" during a private call with people who worked for him in the White House. Still, McConnell added Thursday that "as to whether or not the plan was followed and who's the critic and all the rest, I don't have any observation about that because I don't know enough about the details of that to comment on it in any detail."
Wonder if any of the senior officials who received the in person pandemic response handover survived the reality TV presidency purges.
Let's not get carried away. He had little choice, seeing as how the fact is now public. On the plus side, at least he didn't shamelessly, foolishly, and stubbornly revert to an alternate reality à la Trump. So, yeah, there is that.
I still do not understand why this was Obama's responsibility to hand over Trump a detailed playbook on dealing with Pandemics? Were Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush all required to hand over a playbook to the next Administration ro did they just rely on the staffs at CDC and NIH to do their jobs no matter who was President? Seems like another attempt at Trump to take no responsibility and say that it was not their fault, Obama did not tell us what to do! I don't know...when the stock market went higher did Trump say "i am so glad Obama told me what to do to make the market go higher.." Then to add insult to injury McConnell just threw everyone under the bus and said "Ooops...we did get a detailed playbook" NEXT QUESTION...why didnt you follow it fuckwipes?
it was an outright lie that he got caught in pushing since so many people came out and literally showed the playbook that was created and handed over.... If "you can keep your doctor" was a lie of the wrost kind, what was McConnell and Trump's lie worth since it cost us billions of doallrs and lives by not following it until we were already knee deep in shit. Remember, this will all go away magically and disappear....well 2 months of some type of lockdown starting in March (1 month late) and still waiting for the Harry Potter magic to begin.