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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIntelligence 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
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dawg day
(7,947 posts)1. And of course if there had still been a Pandemic Preparedness program...
They would have warned even earlier.
Oh, right, there was one. He fired them all.
still_one
(92,183 posts)2. Parallel to Presidential Daily Briefing prior to 9/11
rampartc
(5,407 posts)3. he believed the "deep state" enough to phone in "sell" orders to his brokers
handmade34
(22,756 posts)4. still calling it a hoax
the end of February... he needs to be called out on that