Via HuffPost Canada: Obama ‘Ebola Czar’ Delivers Scathing Assessment Of Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Response. Excerpt:
Ronald Klain, whom former President Barack Obama appointed to lead the U.S. response to the Ebola epidemic, on Friday ripped President Donald Trump and his administration’s messy handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
Klain — who was dubbed the “Ebola czar” — told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi there was a “crisis of both confidence and competence” in the way Trump’s White House was tackling the spread of the virus, which causes the COVID-19 respiratory disease.
“On the confidence side, anyone at this point in time who believes what Donald Trump says kind of gets what they deserve at this stage of the game,” said Klain.
Trump has told more than 16,000 lies during his time in office, according to The Washington Post.
“But the problem is that the administration has silenced the people we can trust,” Klain added, noting how top officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had essentially “been gagged” and stopped from talking in public about the outbreak, which he claimed added to the level of confusion and panic that it is causing.
“We can’t trust our president, and the people we can trust aren’t being allowed to tell us the truth,” he added.
