A Most important take away for me was the implications of The Stafford Act.
Most of us associate that legislation as the source of all the money going out of the government to cover and pay for everything that was needed during the pandemic, from buying the stuff, to paying out money to people out of work etc.
But there is a section called “Presidential Competence”, which directs that if anything is going on which exceeds the scope of the President’s competence, then he is by law compelled to defer to his experts.
That is what actually made Trump go along with the recommendations of Anthony Fauci, Deborah Birx, and Robert Redfield.
Of course Trump was not an epidemiologist or virologist.
That’s the reason Trump HAD to shut down the entire country, accept and promote the vaccine.
Many condemn Trump for doing that, but if he had not done so, there would have been grounds for removing him from office for not accepting the directions of the experts. |