According to the authors, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta , the former president would have suggested the idea up to two times in February last year, when the World Health Organization had not yet declared the pandemic situation and known cases of coronavirus were concentrated in the Asian continent.
Don't we own any island? Why not Guantanamo ? We import goods, we aren't getting to import an epidemic
Trump said during a gathering within the White House crisis room together with his closest collaborators and officials. high ranking.
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The two Post journalists recreate this situation in their book from interviews with more than 180 people, some of them high-ranking US government officials and health officials.
"STUPEFIED"
According to the version of the book, the rest of the people present in the room reacted "dumbfounded" to the idea of the then president and "let it go, worried about the rejection that would generate quarantining US tourists in the same Caribbean base in the that the country holds suspects of terrorism."
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The book, titled Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to a History-Changing Pandemic, recounts, in addition to this episode, a "chaotic and often botched" decision-making process in the White House, laden with "struggles for power".
The Washington Post was one of the newspapers most critical of Trump throughout his term and especially in relation to his management of the pandemic, and since the Republican did not occupy the White House, his audience on the web has dropped considerably, consistent with the monthly figures published by the newspaper itself.
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At the Guantanamo naval base (Cuba) there are only 40 of the nearly 800 inmates it housed after its opening in 2002 ordered by the then US president, George W. Bush, in response to the attacks of 9/11, 2001.
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