Joe Biden has character. Donald Trump does not. This crisis makes it obvious.

by Max Boot, @ WaPo

'Nothing reveals character like a crisis. The coronavirus crisis has revealed — or rather reinforced — that Joe Biden has what it takes to be an effective president and Donald Trump does not.

At a time like this, you want a leader who is calm, reassuring, knowledgeable and trustworthy. That’s not Trump. As the New York Times summarizes, the president has been a one-man disinformation machine: At first, he played down the pandemic (“We have it totally under control,” he said on Jan. 22), then he played up dubious cures. He has also attempted to blame others — including former president Barack Obama, who left office more than a three years ago — for his own mistakes. Apparently, the buck stops everywhere except the Oval Office.

President Trump’s biggest blunders were the shameful delays in testing and in mobilizing resources to fight the pandemic, due to his ignoring warnings in January and February from his own intelligence community. That negligence, which one expert has called the worst intelligence failure in U.S. history, cost us the opportunity to contain the pandemic before the United States became the world leader in coronavirus cases. That’s the wrong kind of “America First.”

Trump’s trademark vacillations are more dangerous than ever.'>>>

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/29/joe-biden-has-character-donald-trump-does-not-this-crisis-makes-it-obvious/?