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Barack Obama: “When Donald Trump comes in, I hand it to him, where's the…”

Featuring: Barack Obama, Democratic | 44th President of the United States | National

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Barack Obama campaigning for Kamala Harris, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Published | Video Starts at 31:05

What are we going to do with the schools? What kinds of travel restrictions might be put in place? How do we accelerate vaccines? Had it all in this big book. And so When Donald Trump comes in, I hand it to him, where's the book? I handed it to him, and apparently it was lost. And three years later, a pandemic hits. Now, I want to be fair on this. No matter who was president, the pandemic was going to be a terrible crisis. (31:05–31:18)

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Asserts that the pandemic response playbook was handed to the Trump administration but was lost.

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