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Trump’s former Homeland Security adviser crushes president’s coronavirus response

AlterNet logoTom Bossert, who served as a homeland security adviser to President Donald Trump during the first two years of his administration, slammed his former boss for banning travel to Europe at a time when coronavirus is already spreading like wildfire across the United States.

Bossert, who days earlier wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post warning Trump that he had very limited time to stop the virus from running out of control, wrote on Twitter Thursday morning that the president’s latest travel ban is all but useless with the number of coronavirus infections in the country increasing daily.

“There’s little value to European travel restrictions,” he wrote. “Poor use of time and energy. Earlier, yes. Now, travel restrictions/screening are less useful. We have nearly as much disease here in the US as the countries in Europe.” Continue reading.

Trump’s former homeland security adviser warns that coronavirus could become a ‘fire out of control’

AlterNet logoAccording to data from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, the coronavirus epidemic had killed at least 4,088 people worldwide as of Tuesday morning, March 10 — including over 3,000 in Mainland China, 463 in Italy, 291 in Iran, 54 in South Korea and 23 in the United States. Health officials fear that the situation in the U.S. could become much worse. And in an op-ed for the Washington Post, Tom Bossert (who served as a homeland security adviser to President Donald Trump in 2017 and 2018) warns that the U.S. needs to take very aggressive steps to make sure that coronavirus doesn’t get out of control.

“The near-term objective should be to reduce the acute, exponential growth of the outbreak in order to reduce suffering and the strain on our health-care system,” Bossert explains. “That will require significant effort, but it can work, as we have seen: Hong Kong and Singapore have achieved linear growth of covid-19 cases, staving off the terrifying exponential upward curve confronting Italy and pushing both the infection rate down and new cases out on the timeline. The United States needs to take note.”

Bossert stresses that not nearly enough coronavirus testing is taking place in the U.S. Continue reading.

Former Trump adviser: Family separations ‘terrible optics’ for the administration

The following article by Mary Tyler March was posted on the Hill website June 24, 2018:

President Trump‘s former homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert, said on Sunday that the past week was filled with “terrible optics” for the White House — something that, he said, could have been avoided.

“This week has just been gripping imagery and terrible optics for the administration,” Bossert said on ABC’s “This Week.” “Part of this was avoidable.”

“This week has just been gripping imagery and terrible optics for the administration,” Bossert said on ABC’s “This Week.” “Part of this was avoidable.” Continue reading “Former Trump adviser: Family separations ‘terrible optics’ for the administration”