Who is Rick Bright? He oversaw the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, said he warned his superiors at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services of a potential shortage of N95 respirators. To put it simply, he was the whistleblower who contradicted every claim about how Trump was managing the coronavirus by your illegitimate president. His reward? The usual; Trump fired the only person in his administration charged with assisting in the creation of a vaccine. Because of the Trump administration’s failure to ramp up the production PPE and ventilators approved by U.S. health departments, hospitals remain in short supply of personal protective equipment, and have been forced to use ventilators provided by other nations and not approved by American agencies.

Today, Bright testified before a House committee investigating this administration’s actions related to the rapid and historic spread of the pandemic.

Rick Bright said he’ll never forget the moment when he realized the coronavirus pandemic wreaking havoc in Asia would also become a crisis in the U.S.

“We’re in deep s—. The world is, and we need to act,” read the email he received from a top U.S. medical supplier.

This fits Trump’s pattern. Throughout his term in office he has refused to listen to experts with the experience to deal with situations ranging from international relations to our nation’s economy. His failures are his own, and his successes are nil.

“From that moment on, I knew that we were going to have a crisis for our health-care workers because we were not taking action. We were already behind the ball,” he testified before a House health subcommittee Thursday. “That was our last window of opportunity to turn on production to save the lives of our health-care workers, and we didn’t act.”

Leaders lead by example. Great leaders choose advisers who know far more than they about the issues. Trump’s ‘examples’ are fraught with failures, and his administration is the least qualified in the history of our nation. The truth is no one knows how to govern in the White House today.

Thousands of lives could have been saved if Trump had taken action in January. Once again, he was too busy chasing little white balls and holding hate rallies.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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