1. In 2017 and 2018, the philanthropist billionaire Bill Gates met repeatedly with Bolton and his predecessor, H.R. McMaster, warning that ongoing cuts to the global health disease infrastructure would render the United States vulnerable
2. In 2018, the Trump administration fired the government’s entire pandemic response chain of command, including the White House management infrastructure.
3. The global health section of the CDC was so drastically cut in 2018 that much of its staff was laid off and the number of countries it was working in was reduced from 49 to merely 10.
THEN
Trump declared the pandemic to be a Democrat media hoax.
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Trump is blaming Obama for Trump's failure to streamline Obama era testing regulations in a timely manner.