Mike Pence and Trump COVID-19 team rip Biden’s misinformation

As the Biden administration bumbles its way through the coronavirus crisis, some members of former President Donald Trump’s COVID team have begun to call out their successors for misrepresenting what they were handed.

“I’m sitting on the couch a week after leaving office. And I’m watching the president on some CNN town hall. And he literally said, quote, ‘You know, when we came in, we didn’t have a vaccine,’” said former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday.

“We were vaccinating a million Americans a day when we left office, including Joe Biden,” he added while hosting his American Freedom podcast for the Young America’s Foundation.

Former CDC Director Robert Redfield, talking to Pence on the podcast, said that he was upset also when Ron Klain, White House chief of staff, said the new administration was handed a “mess.”

Redfield, who has begun to be more outspoken about the successes of the Trump team, said, “I got very upset with the chief of staff, his chief of staff, because he said that we handed him a ‘mess,’ is the word he used, a mess, and that they were going to get to a million a day within no time.”

He added, “You know, I usually don’t say anything, but I had to say I was very disappointed. Rather than congratulating us for the football that we handed them right and take it further. Because when we handed him the football, we were already doing a million a day.”

Both expressed dismay that the Biden team not only did not credit the former administration for having the crisis as under control as possible, but that in not thanking those who helped, it depressed morale on the COVID team left behind…. (Excerpt from the Washington Examiner)