I don't think a real president would have even needed a vaccine as they would have acted much earlier instead of waiting for Covid to get out of control.
My opinion, Trump wanted a pandemic that he could manage. He let it get out of control early on, but underestimated how fast it would spread and how deadly it would be.
I heard an interview on Doctor Radio about a month ago where Robert Redfield, the head of the CDC during the Trump administration, gave Trump a lot of credit for Operation Warp Speed. I think Trump got the vaccines approved a lot faster than Biden or Hillary Clinton would have. Partly for self serving reasons. Trump wanted a vaccine before the election, and he was willing to push the FDA to get it. It was the right approach though, regardless.
As to Afghanistan, I'm thinking about the Afghan citizens who helped us during the war but who we left behind, largely because the State Department was slow to issue visas. During Trump's administration it might have been because of the administration's anti-immigrant bias and overdone concern about terrorism. And given how slowly our government moves, that bias would have carried over into the Biden administration. Trump also could have done more to protect the Kurds in northern Syria who we left behind when we gave Turkey the green light to move in.
Originally Posted by Tiny
