Debunked: the lie that Trump scrapped the "pandemic response" Team.

Since a Democrat hack just reposted an old DNC talking point based on a false complaint by a disgruntled ex employee, I'll post this old debunking from those actually involved. The piece covers other debunked lies like the hoax that Trump called the virus a "hoax", that he "muzzled" Dr. Fauci, and that he cut CDC funding, but I'll quote some excerpts focusing on the "response" team lie:

"What about the claim that the NSC office was dissolved? That’s wrong too, according to Tim Morrison, the former senior director for counterproliferation and biodefense on the National Security Council. The Washington Post let him counter the prior opinion article and he did, saying, “No, the White House didn’t ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office. I was there.”...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/16/no-white-house-didnt-dissolve-its-pandemic-response-office/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

...'It has been alleged by multiple officials of the Obama administration, including in The Post, that the president and his then-national security adviser, John Bolton, “dissolved the office” at the White House in charge of pandemic preparedness. Because I led the very directorate assigned that mission, the counterproliferation and biodefense office, for a year and then handed it off to another official who still holds the post, I know the charge is specious.

Now, I’m not naive. This is Washington. It’s an election year. Officials out of power want back into power after November. But the middle of a worldwide health emergency is not the time to be making tendentious accusations. [….]

One such move at the NSC was to create the counterproliferation and biodefense directorate, which was the result of consolidating three directorates into one, given the obvious overlap between arms control and nonproliferation, weapons of mass destruction terrorism, and global health and biodefense. It is this reorganization that critics have misconstrued or intentionally misrepresented. If anything, the combined directorate was stronger because related expertise could be commingled.'

So in other words because they combined offices to make things more efficient, Democrats and their willing support team in media are arguing they “eliminated” the office. Even John Bolton weighed in and called it garbage. Needless to say, he has not love lost for the president so he isn’t saying it to defend him...

'Reporting that alleges the Trump Administration dissolved NSC offices related to our biodefense are both false and misleading. Listen to those who ran the effort. This is a must-read for everyone who values truth over politics in a time of crisis.'"

https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/03/16/wapo-opinion-piece-debunks-another-false-story-no-trump-didnt-eliminate-the-pandemic-response-office/