White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Thursday accused Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) of engaging in “revisionist history” for writing a scathing criticism of President Trump’s coronavirus response.
Asked about Hogan’s Washington Post op-ed, published earlier Thursday, McEnany argued that his criticisms were out of step with some of his previous remarks about the federal government’s response to the virus.
“It’s really striking, his comments, especially when you compare them to his past comments,” McEnany told reporters. “This is revisionist history by Gov. Hogan.”
McEnany referred to comments Hogan made on a March 19 video conference with Trump and Vice President Pence during which he thanked them for their communication.
She also pointed to remarks Hogan made during an April 17 press conference when he said he had thanked Trump on a video conference for progress on federal and state coordination on ventilators, testing capabilities and the availability of critical medical supplies.
Even before Hogan’s op-ed in the Post, he has at times bluntly criticized Trump’s handling of the public health crisis.
Hogan on Thursday wrote that the president left states to fend for themselves in securing supplies and faulted Trump for downplaying the pandemic and eschewing the guidance of public health officials.
“I’d watched as the president downplayed the outbreak’s severity and as the White House failed to issue public warnings, draw up a 50-state strategy, or dispatch medical gear or lifesaving ventilators from the national stockpile to American hospitals,” Hogan wrote.
“Eventually, it was clear that waiting around for the president to run the nation’s response was hopeless; if we delayed any longer, we’d be condemning more of our citizens to suffering and death. So every governor went their own way, which is how the United States ended up with such a patchwork response,” he added.
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