Daily Kos: McConnell claims Obama didn't leave Trump a pandemic 'game plan.' Obama very literally did
By LAURA CLAWSON
Donald Trump has decided that former President Barack Obama is the big new enemy to rant about all the time, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is falling in line. Trump spent Monday rage-tweeting about something called “Obamagate” and, asked by a reporter what crime he was accusing Obama of, said “You know what the crime. The crime is very obvious to everybody. All you have to do is read the newspapers, except yours.” (At no point did Trump name a crime.)
Hours later, McConnell appeared on the Team Trump Livestream with Trump daughter-in-law Lara, and went after Obama on COVID-19. “Clearly the Obama administration did not leave to this administration, any kind of game plan for something like this,” McConnell said. The Obama administration literally left the Trump administration a literal pandemic playbook, complete with warnings about the need for testing and personal protective equipment and instructions for coordinated response.