Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell admitted he was mistaken for claiming the Obama administration left President Trump unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic.
“I was wrong,” McConnell acknowledged to Fox News’s Special Report on Thursday.
“They did leave behind a plan. So I clearly made a mistake in that regard. As to whether or not the plan was followed and who is the critic and all the rest, I don’t have any observation about that because I don’t know enough about the details of that to comment on it in any detail,” he said.
The Kentucky Republican said earlier this week that former President Barack Obama “should have kept his mouth shut” after he criticized his successor’s handling of the pandemic. He also blamed the Obama administration for leaving Trump without “any kind of game plan.”
“They claim pandemics only happen once every hundred years, but what if that’s no longer true? We want to be early, ready for the next one, because clearly, the Obama administration did not leave to this administration any kind of game plan for something like this,” he told the president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, during a virtual campaign event.
Obama’s National Security Council did leave the Trump administration a 69-page playbook on how to respond to a pandemic.
Without providing further details, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany claimed Thursday that the plan was “insufficient.”
