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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,741 posts)
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 08:07 PM Mar 2020

Trump on China: 'I wish they'd told us earlier' about coronavirus

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he wished China would have told him earlier about the novel coronavirus, despite previously praising the country's transparency on the issue.

"I wish they could have told us earlier about what was going on inside," Trump said during a briefing on the federal government's coronavirus response. "We didn't know about it until it started coming out publicly."

Trump added that China "was very secretive and that's unfortunate."

On January 24, Trump praised China and President Xi Jinping for the country's "efforts and transparency" in dealing with the coronavirus. That praise came nearly a month after the country informed the World Health Organization about the virus.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-on-china-i-wish-theyd-told-us-earlier-about-coronavirus/ar-BB11vZNj?li=BBnb7Kz

Even though the first case of coronavirus in this country was three days earlier.



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Docreed2003

(16,850 posts)
1. W....T....F
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 08:27 PM
Mar 2020

How much earlier you want Donnie??? For the two months before we had a full on onslaught in this country you were dismissing it like it was nothing, even while your intelligence agencies were telling you otherwise. You can't pawn your failures off on another country. You fucked up! You thought you could bs your way through this and still are trying to gaslight us.

Botany

(70,447 posts)
2. U.S. Intel knew about the coronavirus in Nov. or Dec. 2019 and hence Trump knew about it too.
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 08:29 PM
Mar 2020

When the Dept. of Health in Seattle and the U. of Washington found the 1st case in late Jan/early Feb
they were told by Trump's CDC to stop testing and not talk about their findings.

TRUMP KNEW

doc03

(35,296 posts)
4. He just said two days ago he knew it was going to be a pandemic before
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 09:00 PM
Mar 2020

anybody did. Cause he is a smart person.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
7. China was isolating a good part of the country in early January.
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:04 PM
Mar 2020

Trump is looking for someone to stick the blame to.

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