None of his business

With this new virus and all, I'm starting to think that giving Trump the reins of the federal bureaucracy was a mistake

Welcome back to The Long Version, a newsletter by Jonathan Myerson Katz.

On May 8, 2018, Donald Trump made what could turn out to be the defining mistake of his life: He fired the top White House official in charge of planning for a global disease pandemic, Adm. R. Timothy Ziemer, and disbanded his global health security team.

The president is starting t…