Larry Hogan is going where no other Republican lawmaker has gone before, heavily criticizing Donald Trump’s response to the pandemic. The Maryland Governor seems to be choosing the wellbeing of his constituents over politics. In an op-ed in the Washington Post, he wrote:
I’d watched as the president downplayed the outbreak’s severity and as the White House failed to issue public warnings, draw up a 50-state strategy, or dispatch medical gear or lifesaving ventilators from the national stockpile to American hospitals. Eventually, it was clear that waiting around for the president to run the nation’s response was hopeless; if we delayed any longer, we’d be condemning more of our citizens to suffering and death. So every governor went their own way, which is how the United States ended up with such a patchwork response. I did the best I could for Maryland.
He goes on to say, “instead of listening to his own public health experts, the president was talking and tweeting like a man more concerned about boosting the stock market or his reelection plans.”
And he doesn’t just address Trump’s response to COVID-19, he also describes this xenophobic moment he witnessed.
