Former President Obama said in a podcast released Friday that President Trump made “terrible decisions” that have worsened the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Speaking of the selection of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) as the vice presidential nominee, Obama said: “She is somebody who I think will be able to share the stage with Mike Pence Michael, or whoever else, and dissect some of the terrible decisions that have been made over the last four years that have helped create worse problems than were necessary in the midst of this pandemic.”
Obama did not go into detail about Trump’s decisionmaking, but he referred to the “current administration that seems to purposely try to ignore or contradict experts.”
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“We’ve got a pandemic that’s raging out of control,” Obama said, on “Campaign HQ” hosted by his former campaign manager David Plouffe. “And that would have been difficult under any circumstances, for any president, but we actually have a comparison between what’s happening in the United States and what’s happening in every other wealthy, industrialized country in the world, and we are dead last in how we have effectively responded. If you don’t have more proof … of the need for change, it’s hard to come up with what the arguments would be.”
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Obama blasts Trump decision-making on coronavirus https://t.co/xIW8QCyQuK pic.twitter.com/weDeGD9i9I
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