Desperate for insight, Trump's team turns to the past to try and save his legacy

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Desperate for insight into how to respond to a staggering death toll and deep recession, the White House machinery is digging through American history for answers

When the avian flu first spread to pockets of Southeast Asia in 2005, President George W. Bush reassured Americans he would be prepared if the viral infection reached the United States.

Deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger finished a copy of Barry’s sobering narrative himself in early January, when the first cases of Covid-19 spread beyond mainland China. “Look, we had the Civil War. We lost 600,000 people, right?” Trump said in the White House press briefing room Wednesday. “You know, we lose more here potentially than you lose in world wars as a country, so there’s nothing positive, there’s nothing great about it.”

“When I think about past presidents who have led us into war, most times there were other designs in place or it was provoked,” he added, citing Trump'sAs Trump joins the ranks of previous wartime leaders, however, the enemy he is fighting is strikingly unfamiliar: a lethal pathogen that forced Americans into battle with minimal preparation and limited visibility into where this war might take them.

 

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Now is not the time to be learning the history of our country! TrumpMadness

But can they read and comprehend ! That is the question !

im so glad taxpayers are here to make sure the orange lord doesn't have to sacrifice anything.

Where are they digging? You think they will find anything that can say us? 🙄 Maybe Biden can. 😂

He will be looking for past president that had high death toll in their term and managed to win another term. He's not looking for sollutions to covid crisis rather solutions on how to win election after tanking economy and bombing response to covid

Staggering death toll? This virus still kills far less than other seasonal illnesses.

We need a 2020 educated crisis manager not a historian. This is unprecedented

He could have tried using the step by step playbook Obama left him for this exact situation. But again his lack of good judgement is causing consequences other people have wear the brunt of.

'Desperate'? Sounds like journalists are.

Try German history

Horrible article. Completely ignores the fact that he defunded the agency meant to deal with the crisis. He was warned. He could also get advice from the current living former presidents.

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