Sources said that Trump feared more testing would lead to higher case counts and bad publicity
. Even worse, though, is that members of Kushner’s team expressed that the reigning sentiment was that coronavirus had hit blue states the hardest, therefore a national plan was not only unnecessary, but wouldn’t make sense for the Trump administration politically.
"The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy," a source described as a"public health expert in frequent contact with the White House’s official coronavirus task force" toldAnd that’s exactly what Trump has done.
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