Blame WHO?

At a press conference on April 14, Trump explained his reasons for withholding money to the World Health Organization. “The reality is that the WHO failed to adequately obtain, vet, and share information in a timely and transparent fashion…. The delays the WHO experienced in declaring a public health emergency,” Trump said “cost valuable time, tremendous amounts of time…. The WHO has not addressed a single one of these concerns nor provided a serious explanation that acknowledges its own mistakes.”

Sounds hypocritical.

The WHO declared a global epidemic on January 20

Trump made his epidemic declaration on March 13

He completely skipped February.

There’s a good reason the Cuban Missile Crisis wasn’t solved by the Beverly Hillbillies. 

Reaction from experts:

“Trump has a penchant for rewriting history,” Adam Kamradt-Scott, a professor of global health at the University of Sydney says. “So it’s not surprising to see him blaming the WHO for mistakes ultimately attributable to his own administration.”

“WHO is not responsible for America not heeding the warnings of its own scientists and security apparatus — for two months,” says Ashish Jha, a professor at Harvard. “That’s laughable.”

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portions of this from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert     04/15/2020