Inslee says Trump coronavirus response akin to if FDR called Pearl Harbor 'a hoax'
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Inslee says Trump coronavirus response akin to if FDR called Pearl Harbor 'a hoax'
By Zack Budryk - 05/28/20 02:47 PM EDT
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) said the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic has been comparable to if President Franklin Roosevelt had called the attack on Pearl Harbor a hoax.
Inslee told Rolling Stone in an interview that President Trump responded to the pandemic with an abject lack of leadership.
Its akin to Franklin Delano Roosevelt on December 8th, 1941, and for months thereafter, saying that Pearl Harbor was a hoax, and that the battleships werent important, and that the Japanese were going to surrender miraculously the next Monday, Inslee said. Thats kind of the scenario we have had from the current president.
If you can imagine Roosevelt doing that, weve had an equivalent of that in response to this existential crisis, and it has continued off and on even today, where we have a president who says that testing is overrated when it is absolutely fundamental to our ability to reopen our economy, he added.
Inslee said his state, an early epicenter for the pandemic, had prepared for a variety of emergency scenarios, but added
there is no preparing 7 million people for something theyve never experienced before. Its just a shock to the system.
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