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So again, for the slow learners, Fauci, Johns Hopkins, Scott Gottlieb, every pandemic "expert" in the country told Trump the CDC was the world's most capable organization in addressing an epidemic. The CDC said the quality of tests was critical, and the CDC needed oversight of uniform quality. What would you have had Trump do? Say "screw you guys, I don't trust the CDC. I'm gonna do my own thing" ?

Of course not!
Had he done that you be pitching conniption fits about it.

Meanwhile Congress was doing what?
Perhaps you've forgotten?

So again, for the brain-dead Trumptards here.

Fauci is considered one of the the - if not THE - foremost U.S. expert on infectious diseases and viral pandemics.

Fauci was this under the Obama Administration.

Fauci was this under the W. Bush Administration.

Fauci was this under the Clinton Administration.

Fauci was this under the H.W. Bush Administration.

Fauci was becoming this under the Reagan Administration.

The other experts don't earn their accolades from the bottom of cracker-jack boxes. Just like you morons don't earn your ignorance from any higher-learning institutions.

The fact is, the CDC was in fact the world's most capable organization in addressing pandemics. They didn't exactly lie or exaggerate.

But unfortunately, the CDC is STILL a sub-department of a cabinet-level department of the federal government, and as such serves at the pleasure of the President of the United States.

Even if the pleasure of that President falls along the lines of a 5th-grader....

I would expect Trump - being the President - to be a leader. You talk like it was the CDC who was advising Trump that the COVID-19 was going to be nothing. You talk like it was Trump who was constrained by Redfield from taking COVID-19 seriously a month sooner, and from getting a proper test out to the masses in sufficient numbers, and from restocking a dangerously depleted federal stockpile of PPE equipment, and communicating to the state governments to do the same themselves.

You talk like you have no clue what you're talking about....