© Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post Vice President Pence, flanked by Trump and the rest of the coronavirus task force, speaks at the White House on March 9. Such insider conversations are among the revelations in “Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History,” a new book by Washington Post journalists Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta that captures the dysfunctional response to the unfolding pandemic. © Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post Former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and incoming Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in March 2020. “One of the biggest flaws in the Trump administration’s response is that no one was in charge of the response,” Abutaleb and Paletta write. Was it Marc Short or Mark Meadows, often at odds, rarely in sync?”“Ultimately, there was no accountability, and the response was rudderless,” they conclude.
