Former GOP strategist Steve Schmidt on Monday rebuked President Donald Trump’s fumbling response to the coronavirus pandemic, suggesting the United States would not be facing “catastrophe” if former President Barack Obama were still in office. “If Barack Obama was the president of the United States, this would not have happened,” the political analyst told MSNBC’s Ari Melber. The nationwide death toll from the public health crisis has now topped 81,000. We would have done what we needed to do early,” said Schmidt, who imagined how the federal response would have unfurled under the Obama administration. “What would have happened is what happened during the Ebola crisis,” said Schmidt, a member of conservative attorney George Conway’s anti-Trump group, the Lincoln Project, which aims to defeat Trump in the 2020 election.

Source: Huffington Post May 12, 2020 09:26 UTC