Here are some facts about Pandemic Preparedness.

You are interested in facts, right? Not just demagogue politics.

Fact: “President Barack Obama created the pandemic preparedness office at the National Security Council in 2016, after his administration was criticized for its initial response to the Ebola epidemic in 2014 and 2015.”

Fact: You are right that Rhodes is not a “health expert” (my bad), but he was US Deputy National Security Advisor For Strategic Communications, and an intellectual far sharper than you or Dumpster Fire Don.

Fact: “Trump chose Bolton to lead the National Security Council in April 2018. A month later, Bolton nixed the pandemic preparedness office as part of an effort to streamline the agency. But global health experts say Bolton’s decision left the Trump administration flat-footed in confronting the virus that has caused nearly 6,400 cases of COVID-19 and killed 108 in the U.S. as of Tuesday evening.” You can be sure that The Don was on board with saving money and getting rid of scientists.

“Bolton’s chosen approach to NSC ‘streamlining’ involved decapitating and diluting the White House’s focus on pandemic threats,” Jeremy Konyndyk, a senior policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, wrote in a rebuttal. “He eliminated the senior director position entirely, closed the biodefense directorate, and spread the remaining staff across other parts of the NSC.”

“Closing the pandemic office “clearly reflected the White House’s misplaced priorities and has proven to be a gross misjudgment,” Konyndyk wrote.”

When all is said and done months from now, Dumpster Fire Don and the Trumpeters are going to be revealed as incompetents to everyone, like they already are now to those who know the facts.

The Don wears no intellectual clothes. Not a pretty sight!