BIDEN WILL REGRET attacking President Trump on his handling of Covid-19, and the latest conveniently timed surfacing of an interview with Bob Woodward in which the president appears to play down the seriousness of the virus.

By now, I’m sure you have heard, and understand, the president’s concern that he didn’t want to panic Americans.  Would he have cut off traffic between China and the U.S. early on if he intended to “play down” it’s seriousness?  At the same time, Democrats Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi were mocking that decision.

Appearing before a handful of union members in Warren, Michigan Wednesday, the desperate Biden, scraped the bottom of the Democrat playbook in his attack on the president.

While Biden questions Trump’s leadership, his own record of handling a virus has come to light.

“It is purely a fortuity that isn’t one of the great mass casualty events in American history,” said Biden’s chief of staff Ron Klain said of H1N1 in 2019, “It had nothing to do with us doing anything right.  It just had to do with luck.”

Certainly, the Trump reelection team will bring out the truth of how Biden did scare the public when H1N1 hit.  Airlines angrily accused Biden of fearmongering when he said in an interview on NBC’s Today Show, “I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined spaces right now,” as he cautioned that he “wouldn’t advise his family to fly on planes or ride the subway.”

“(The) media noted that Biden’s pessimism contrasted sharply with the reassurances President Obama had given a day earlier, when he said there was no need to panic even as he declared a national health emergency,” Katasha Korecki writes in a Politico piece, “Biden has fought a pandemic before. It did not go smoothly.”

Several cabinet members were summoned to “clean up the mess Biden had made: Nip it in the bud,” Korecki noted.  Within hours they were doing press conferences and backing away from Biden’s words.

“The snafu was the first of many scrambles and setbacks by the Obama-Biden administration in its initial response to the Swine Flu,” Korecki reported following interviews with some two-dozen people, who described “a litany of sadly familiar obstacles: vaccine shortfalls, fights over funding, and sometimes contradictory messaging.”

Following an extensive review of the handling of H1N1, she suggests the response was not the panacea portrayed by the Biden camp and its defenders. “Biden’s role, while significant, was not equivalent to leading the response.

Surely, if Korecki can do her investigative reporting for her piece on Biden, the Trump team will uncover much more, and Biden will forever regret his accusations. Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key member of the Trump virus task force, was also involved in the H1N1 operation of the Obama-Biden administration.

Incidentally, just as some 20 individuals have debunked the anonymous false accusations of the President demeaning members of the military service published by the leftist Atlantic magazine, those close to the president during his decision-making on the outbreak, are sure to come forward to belittle Woodward’s “hit job” intended to be the latest attempt to discourage Trump voters.

One such person, Dr. Fauci, has already done so.  Responding to Fox News Channel’s John Roberts’ question regarding the President playing down the threat of the virus, Fauci said, “I didn’t get the sense that he was distorting anything,” indicating he was “always straightforward about the concerns we had.”

“I don’t recall anything different than in our discussions that we had with the president that he said things quite similar publicly,” Fauci added.

THE WOODWARD criticism of the president playing down the seriousness of the virus, despite the president’s desire not to panic Americans, was successfully dropped in the last months of the campaign as a distraction to suck up the media coverage.  This non-story will likely be in the news for days. I am curious how Chris Wallace will question Woodward during his appearance on Fox News Sunday. It should be a non-story by then.

MEANWHILE, three real news stories Wednesday nearly went unnoticed – the nomination of President Trump to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, his decision to pull thousands of troops from Afghanistan, and his release of a list of judges he would consider should there be a Supreme Court opening.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.