\u201cFor six weeks behind the scenes, and now increasingly in public, Trump has undermined his administration\u2019s own efforts to fight the coronavirus outbreak \u2014 resisting attempts to plan for worst-case scenarios, overturning a public-health plan upon request from political allies and repeating only the warnings that he chose to hear. Members of Congress have grilled top officials like Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield over the government\u2019s biggest mistake: failing to secure enough testing to head off a coronavirus outbreak in the United States. But many current and former Trump administration officials say the true management failure was Trump\u2019s.\u201d
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“\u201cInterviews with 13 current and former officials, as well as individuals close to the White House, painted a picture of a president who rewards those underlings who tell him what he wants to hear while shunning those who deliver bad news.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cFor six weeks behind the scenes, and now increasingly in public, Trump has undermined his administration\u2019s own efforts to fight the coronavirus outbreak \u2014 resisting attempts to plan for worst-case scenarios, overturning a public-health plan upon request from political allies and repeating only the warnings that he chose to hear. Members of Congress have grilled top officials like Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Disease Control Director Robert Redfield over the government\u2019s biggest mistake: failing to secure enough testing to head off a coronavirus outbreak in the United States. But many current and former Trump administration officials say the true management failure was Trump\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n
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