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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat Mar 21, 2020, 01:37 PM Mar 2020

Intelligence officials were warning Trump about a pandemic as early as January

but they 'couldn't get him to do anything about it'

United States intelligence agencies were warning President Donald Trump about an impending pandemic as early as January, The Washington Post reported.

Officials were giving Trump classified briefings on the matter at the same time that the president was publicly downplaying the risk of the novel coronavirus and insisting the US was well prepared to handle the outbreak.

The Post reported that intelligence documents closely tracked the virus' spread in Wuhan, China, where it originated and as it later progressed through mainland China, but they did not specify when the disease would make it to the US.

"The system was blinking red," one US official with access to the intelligence told The Post. Agencies "have been warning on this since January."

https://news.yahoo.com/intelligence-officials-were-warning-trump-012724382.html

But they're the "deep state". He only trusts the derp state.
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Intelligence officials were warning Trump about a pandemic as early as January (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2020 OP
And of course if there had still been a Pandemic Preparedness program... dawg day Mar 2020 #1
Parallel to Presidential Daily Briefing prior to 9/11 still_one Mar 2020 #2
he believed the "deep state" enough to phone in "sell" orders to his brokers rampartc Mar 2020 #3
still calling it a hoax handmade34 Mar 2020 #4

dawg day

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1. And of course if there had still been a Pandemic Preparedness program...
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 01:39 PM
Mar 2020

They would have warned even earlier.
Oh, right, there was one. He fired them all.

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