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This is the best accounting I have seen of the history of the Trump
administration's dealing with the crisis. Among other things, it explains
that Robert Redfield, head of the CDC, is a religious fanatic. It also
reports what many of us suspected: That Trump kept testing down so as not
to spook the stock market. A few quoted:
“Jared [Kushner] had been arguing that testing too many people, or ordering
too many ventilators, would spook the markets and so we just shouldn’t do it,”
says a Trump confidant who speaks to the president frequently. “That advice
worked far more powerfully on him than what the scientists were saying. He
thinks they always exaggerate.”
“The way to keep your job is to out-loyal everyone else, which means you
have to tolerate quackery,” says Anthony Scaramucci, an estranged former
Trump adviser, who was briefly his White House head of communications. “You
have to flatter him in public and flatter him in private. Above all, you
must never make him feel ignorant.”
A former senior Trump official says: “People turn into wusses around Trump.
If you stand up to him, you’ll never get back in. What you see in public is
what you get in private. He is exactly the same.”
“We used to think of America as the world’s leading power, not as the
epicentre of disease,” says Fullilove, who is an ardent pro-American. “We
increasingly feel caught between a reckless China and a feckless America
that no longer seems to care about its allies.”*
Yet without exception, everyone I interviewed, including the most ardent
Trump loyalists, made a similar point to Conway. Trump is deaf to advice,
said one. He is his own worst enemy, said another. He only listens to
family, said a third. He is mentally imbalanced, said a fourth. America, in
other words, should brace itself for a turbulent six months ahead – with no
assurance of a safe landing.
https://www.ft.com/content/97dc7de6-940b-11ea-abcd-371e24b679ed
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*“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black
Jacobins" by C. L. R. James
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