奥巴马批评特朗普疫情应对，表示会尽其所能为拜登助选

Former U.S. President Barack Obama (R) greets President Donald Trump at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, U.S., January 20, 2017. /Reuters

据美国媒体9日报道，美国前总统奥巴马批评现任总统特朗普的新冠疫情应对是“混乱的灾难”。

据报道，奥巴马8日在和约3000名他执政时期政府成员的电话会议中说，在美国人生活中，自私、搞派系、搞分裂以及视他人为敌的风气更盛，这是美国应对疫情危机一直乏力和欠缺的原因之一。当政府以“这对我有什么好处”和“其他人见鬼去吧”的心态运作，“这（疫情应对）绝对是一场混乱的灾难”。

奥巴马在电话会议中呼吁其支持者支持民主党总统竞选人、前副总统拜登，并表示：“我将尽可能多花时间、尽我所能为拜登助选。”

此前，奥巴马曾发推文公开表示支持拜登竞选。

“选择拜登做副总统是我最棒的决定之一，他成为了我的好朋友，我也相信他能够成为我们目前所需要的总统。”

Former U.S. President Barack Obama described President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic as "chaotic" in a conference call with former members of his administration, a source said on Saturday.

In his call on Friday with 3,000 members of the Obama Alumni Association, people who served in his administration, Obama urged his supporters to get behind Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who is trying to unseat Trump in the November 3 election, Reuters reported.

National polls show a tight race between Trump and Biden with six months to go until the election. Biden leads in several battleground states.

Obama said the election "is so important because what we're going to be battling is not just a particular individual or a political party." 

"What we're fighting against is these long-term trends in which being selfish, being tribal, being divided, and seeing others as an enemy - that has become a stronger impulse in American life," he said.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to then Vice President Joe Biden in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, U.S., January 12, 2017. /Reuters

He said this is one reason why "the response to this global crisis has been so anemic and spotty". 

"It would have been bad even with the best of governments. It has been an absolute chaotic disaster when that mindset - of 'what's in it for me' and 'to heck with everybody else' - when that mindset is operationalized in our government," Obama said. 

"That's why, I, by the way, am going to be spending as much time as necessary and campaigning as hard as I can for Joe Biden," he said. "I am hoping that all of you feel the same sense of urgency that I do."

After formally endorsing Biden last month, Obama said he would be deeply involved in the campaign to help Biden win the White House.

Obama's office declined to comment.

(部分中文来自新华社)

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