New York City Ebola Virus Patient: Donald Trump Blames President Obama for Ebola in NYC, Demands Obama to Resign
Leave it up to media hog Donald Trump to use the Ebola panic in the United States to attack President Barack Obama and call for his resignation.
The self-proclaimed billionaire businessman lambasted the president after a doctor living in New York City was diagnosed with the disease Thursday night. Before the diagnosis was confirmed, Trump tweeted that Obama should resign.
"If this doctor, who so recklessly flew into New York from West Africa, has Ebola, then Obama should apologize to the American people & resign!" he wrote on Twitter Thursday evening.
After it was finalized that Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, did indeed contract the deadly virus during his recent trip to Guinea, Trump denounced Obama for failing to implement a travel ban for flights from West Africa.
"Ebola has been confirmed in N.Y.C., with officials frantically trying to find all of the people and things he had contact with. Obama's fault," he tweeted.
The Real Estate mogul followed up with another tweet calling Obama "incompetent."
"I have been saying for weeks for President Obama to stop the flights from West Africa. So simple, but he refused. A TOTAL incompetent!" he wrote.
He also made reference to the name that appears on Obama's Columbia University identification card, writing, "I never thought I'd say it in my lifetime, but President Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, is a far worse president than Jimmy Carter! ...
"President Obama, you are a complete and total disaster, but you have a chance to do something great and important: STOP THE FLIGHTS!"
Contrary to Trump's call for more border security, the World Health Organization, Red Cross and U.S. Centers for Disease Control stated that travel bans and border closures would not effectively stop the spread of disease.
"Those are not solutions," said Elhadj As Sy, Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, according to the Huffington Post. "The only solution is how can we join our efforts to contain those kinds of viruses and epidemics at their epicenter, right where they start."
Dr. Spencer, who returned to New York from Africa about three weeks ago, contacted authorities Thursday when he began showing symptoms of Ebola. He was then admitted to New York City's Bellevue Hospital.
While in Guinea, the Harlem-based doctor worked with Doctors Without Borders and treated Ebola patients.
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