Susan Rice: Obama admin gave Trump 'pandemic for dummies playbook'
By John Bowden - 07/29/20 01:12 PM EDT
Former national security adviser Susan Rice laid blame for the severity of the U.S. coronavirus pandemic squarely on the shoulders of the Trump administration on Wednesday during an interview with the hosts of "The View."
Rice, who served under former President Obama, accused the Trump White House of throwing out a playbook for dealing with global pandemics provided by the Obama White House.
"We prepared the administration with a pandemic for dummies playbook," Rice said. "And a table-top exercise. And so many other briefings."
"So the fault here, the tragic loss of 150,000 Americans and counting, is on Donald Trump and his gross mishandling of this pandemic," she continued. "He said it would go away. He likened it to the flu ... he's urged kids to go back to school in communities where the virus is raging. Every step of the way, Donald Trump has put his own personal, political interests ahead of the health and the well-being and the economic security of Americans."
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