Government officials reportedly 'just couldn't get' Trump to do anything about coronavirus early on

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The Trump administration has taken some heat for what many consider a delayed response to the coronavirus pandemic that's now sweeping through the country. But, The Washington Post reports, there were apparently numerous government officials who tried to warn the president about the repercussions as early as January.

U.S. officials familiar with spy agency reporting told the Post the intelligence community issued warnings that China, where the new virus originated, was minimizing its own outbreak earlier in the year and that the U.S. could be facing a crisis. "Donald Trump may not have been expecting this, but a lot of other people in the government were — they just couldn't get him to do anything about it," one official said. "The system was blinking red."

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar reportedly couldn't get Trump to speak with him about the virus until mid-January, two weeks after officials were alerted about its spread in China. Even then, Trump was reportedly more interested in when flavored vaping products were going to return to the market.

In late January, Joe Grogan, the head of the White House Domestic Policy Council, argued the virus could cost Trump re-election, while Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger began calling for a more forceful response in early February. But despite all that, Trump maintained his belief the threat would dissipate before it became serious in the U.S. Read more at The Washington Post.

https://news.yahoo.com/government-officials-reportedly-just-couldnt-124140944.html

He was too busy golfing and consuming buckets of KFC.

[barbtries]

1. he thought he could win it over

with the force of his personality. it's worked with everything else, right? WTF is it about this virus that it keeps on keeping on when he's telling it to stop?

[Kablooie]

2. When a million Americans die ,Trump will just smile because...

he'll be making money renting hotel rooms to hospitals for their patients.
You can bet he'll gouge them too.

He'll be happy as a clam, tell his followers he's doing everything possible to save them and they will continue to praise him as the most powerful, miraculous president ever in history as they cough and die.

[Hortensis]

3. McConnell could have. He could have made Trump

a deal he really could not refuse. And if McConnell wouldn't, other top Republicans could have made McConnell a deal he couldn't refuse, and/or gone straight to the people with the truth. None did.

They knew very early in January, if not December, that not taking action would result in the deaths of at least hundreds of thousands of Americans, mostly elderly entitlement recipients and others disabled by illness.

And those who did speak up told their voters not to worry, that it was overblown by Democrats to make Trump look bad. Knowing that a national holocaust was building more dreadful and more irreversible every day.