The Washington Post reported on Monday in advance, citing the as yet unpublished book “Nightmare Scenario: The Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Has Changed History”, which two employees of the newspaper wrote.
In Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the US operates a military base with a notorious prison camp that was set up after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Terror suspects are detained there in disregard of basic human rights standards. Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama failed to keep his election promise to close Guantanamo.
“Do we not have an island that we own?” Trump is said to have asked in the White House in February 2020 before the virus spread dramatically in the United States. And then: “What about Guantánamo?” Trump advisors were stunned, wrote the Washington Post. Ultimately, the idea was discarded because the advisors would have been concerned about the public reaction if holiday returnees were housed at the same US base as terrorist suspects.
The newspaper reported, citing the book, that Trump complained to his Minister of Health, Alex Azar, in March 2020 that the US federal government had taken the lead in the corona tests. Trump is reported to have said: “I will lose the election because of the tests! What idiot had the federal government run tests?” Trump asked. Azar then pointed out to him that his son-in-law Jared Kushner had taken the initiative.
The book is slated for June 29th. The authors Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta are employees of the Washington Post. According to the newspaper, the book traces the chaos in the Trump administration as a result of the pandemic. According to the authors, one of the biggest problems was that there were no clear responsibilities for responding to the pandemic.
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