No, the White House didn’t ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office

As The Post reported in 2015, from the Clinton administration to the Obama administration’s second term, the NSC’s staff “had quadrupled in size, to nearly 400 people.” That is why Trump began streamlining the NSC staff in 2017.
One such move at the NSC was to create the counterproliferation and biodefense directorate, which was the result of consolidating three directorates into one, given the obvious overlap between arms control and nonproliferation, weapons of mass destruction terrorism, and global health and biodefense. It is this reorganization that critics have misconstrued or intentionally misrepresented. If anything, the combined directorate was stronger because related expertise could be commingled.
The reduction of force in the NSC has continued since I departed the White House. But it has left the biodefense staff unaffected — perhaps a recognition of the importance of that mission to the president, who, after all, in 2018 issued a presidential memorandum to finally create real accountability in the federal government’s expansive biodefense system.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/16/no-white-house-didnt-dissolve-its-pandemic-response-office/
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Obviously we’re supposed to accept established Trump spin doctor Tim Morrison’s column at face value. Feel free, blob.
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Lou Dobbs!!!! What's it like being a lying piece of shit O'Keefed?HHusky said:Obviously we’re supposed to accept established Trump spin doctor Tim Morrison’s column at face value. Feel free, blob.
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An Op-Ed from a Trump sycophant. Fuck off.
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So you believe Bolton now? Two months ago you didn't want him to testify cause he was a liar.SFGbob said:
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Gee. Bolton doesn’t want to be responsible for it either. Shocking!SFGbob said:
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Plenty to add. You swallowed like the fucking bitch you've always been O'Keefed.HHusky said:
The duties of the pandemic response duties were consolidated not eliminated. You and your dipshit butt buddy swallowed like bitches. -
Lie. I never said I didn't believe Bolton and I never said I didn't want him to testify and I never called him a liar. One sentence 3 fucking lies. Nice work Kunt.insinceredawg said:
So you believe Bolton now? Two months ago you didn't want him to testify cause he was a liar.SFGbob said:
Btw, who was the single person running the pandemic response team you were referring to last week? -
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Lying piece of shit Kunt.SFGbob said:
Lie. I never said I didn't believe Bolton and I never said I didn't want him to testify and I never called him a liar. One sentence 3 fucking lies. Nice work Kunt.insinceredawg said:
So you believe Bolton now? Two months ago you didn't want him to testify cause he was a liar.SFGbob said:
Btw, who was the single person running the pandemic response team you were referring to last week?
You didn't answer my question, who was the single person running the pandemic response team? You swallowed that lie like it was Trump's orange cock. -
insinceredawg said:
So you believe Bolton now? Two months ago you didn't want him to testify cause he was a liar.SFGbob said:
Btw, who was the single person running the pandemic response team you were referring to last week?
Another fucking lie. I'll chalk this one up to you just being a dumbfuck. I said one person, the head of the pandemic response team was gotten rid of. The duties of the pandemic response team still continued.
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Alternative fact that you swallowed like a bitch? Hardly.HHusky said: -
And confirmation you’ve got nothing to add.SFGbob said:
Alternative fact that you swallowed like a bitch? Hardly.HHusky said: -
Yeah, you were just exposed for being lying piece of shit. Other than that, I've got nothing.HHusky said:
And confirmation you’ve got nothing to add.SFGbob said:
Alternative fact that you swallowed like a bitch? Hardly.HHusky said: -
No, now you've got the embarrassed guy who actually did the disbanding denying it happened. Awesome!SFGbob said:
Yeah, you were just exposed for being lying piece of shit. Other than that, I've got nothing.HHusky said:
And confirmation you’ve got nothing to add.SFGbob said:
Alternative fact that you swallowed like a bitch? Hardly.HHusky said: -
BWAHAHA....snoops is your source....GO FUCK YOURSELFinsinceredawg said:An Op-Ed from a Trump sycophant. Fuck off.
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I remember my believing snopes phase.DuckHHunterisafag said:
BWAHAHA....snoops is your source....GO FUCK YOURSELFinsinceredawg said:An Op-Ed from a Trump sycophant. Fuck off.
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Trump has done a good job of predicting and seeing characters what what they are worth, reverse psychology(like Kim in NKorea) president of China, to even members of his own cabinet. He’s a good reader. But for the life of me I don’t see what he saw in Bolton, the war monger, hawk. He misread him, bigley.insinceredawg said:
So you believe Bolton now? Two months ago you didn't want him to testify cause he was a liar.SFGbob said:
Btw, who was the single person running the pandemic response team you were referring to last week?
Bolton is a POS. Now washed up revengeful fuck. He’s a turd down the drain, flushed, where he ought to be. It’s a glip in Trumps reign. That is all.
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And yet you told me to fuck off for pointing it out to comrade ID?MikeDamone said:
I remember my believing snopes phase.DuckHHunterisafag said:
BWAHAHA....snoops is your source....GO FUCK YOURSELFinsinceredawg said:An Op-Ed from a Trump sycophant. Fuck off.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/ -
SFGbob said:
Plenty to add. You swallowed like the fucking bitch you've always been O'Keefed.HHusky said:
The duties of the pandemic response duties were consolidated not eliminated. You and your dipshit butt buddy swallowed like bitches.
“It would be nice if the office was still there,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Health, told Congress this past week. -
Are you new here?DuckHHunterisafag said:
And yet you told me to fuck off for pointing it out to comrade ID?MikeDamone said:
I remember my believing snopes phase.DuckHHunterisafag said:
BWAHAHA....snoops is your source....GO FUCK YOURSELFinsinceredawg said:An Op-Ed from a Trump sycophant. Fuck off.
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Governors were whining about the lack of a federal response until they realized they could grab the power themselves
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*knew hearMikeDamone said:
Are you new here*?DuckHHunterisafag said:
And yet you told me to fuck off for pointing it out to comrade ID?MikeDamone said:
I remember my believing snopes phase.DuckHHunterisafag said:
BWAHAHA....snoops is your source....GO FUCK YOURSELFinsinceredawg said:An Op-Ed from a Trump sycophant. Fuck off.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/