Donald Trump's appalling, blame-shifting Rose Garden news conference - CNNPolitics
Call it the Michael Scott strategy of management. "I do want the credit, without any of the blame,"
Asked whether he took responsibility for
disbanding the office of pandemics, Trump called it "a nasty question" (it wasn't) before adding: "When you say 'me,' I didn't do it. We have a group of people [in the administration]. But I could perhaps ask Tony about that, because I don't know anything about it." ("Tony" is Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.)
As for the lack of coronavirus test kits currently available -- a "failing" acknowledged by Fauci, Trump reached back to the previous administration's handling of the H1N1 swine flu in 2009.
"Ask them how they did with swine flu," said Trump. "They had a very big disaster."