Trump Denies He Had Early Warnings of Pandemic

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Trump Denies He Had Early Warnings of Pandemic

March 21, 2020 at 5:20 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 99 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/03/21/trump-denies-he-had-early-warnings-of-pandemic/

"SNIP.....

President Trump on Saturday insisted that his administration didn’t act late in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic following a report from the Washington Post that said the White House ignored early warnings from the intelligence community, The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “I think the Washington Post covers us very inaccurately. I saw the story. I think it’s a disgrace, but it’s the Washington Post, and I guess we have to live with it. It’s a very inaccurate story.”

....SNIP"

[Kablooie]

1. On Feb 4 there was talk of a possible pandemic in the news.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/04/health/who-coronavirus-not-pandemic/index.html

So there had to be information about this possibility to world leaders much earlier.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Absolute BS. A coward too.

[Lock him up.]

3. It's all on TAPE, lying orange virus.

New Joe Biden ad: Donald Trump has failed the American people.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287680741

[peacefreak2.0]

4. The emperor has no clothes.

[doc03]

5. Wait a minute he said just a couple days ago he knew it was going to be

a pandemic before anyone else did? What the f--- was he waiting for?

[lettucebe]

6. Roll the tape

Well, Tom Cotton got the memo. Here he is on Feb 8

I don't have the will right now but there are many many more video examples of this. He knew, he just wanted to pretend it wasn't happening so his beautiful numbers wouldn't be affected.

Edit: adding, I didn't watch the entire video just saw it was talking about the CV. The point I'm trying to make is he was well aware, and despite his pretending otherwise, it's another lie.

[Lock him up.]

7. And now that he's got caught ignoring it...

He claims to the country's face nobody knew, and if *he* would have known blah blah blah

Just the usual *perfect* pack of lies.

[Yonnie3]

8. He didn't listen to the intelligence community

He has called out the intelligence community as untruthful. He watched Faux and tweeted as he was briefed. He promptly threw out the documents because ... words.

This post is only based on my hunches.

[malaise]

9. This is from the State of the Union on Feb 4

Protecting Americans' health also means fighting infectious diseases. We are coordinating with the Chinese government and working closely together on the Coronavirus outbreak in China. My Administration will take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from this threat.

https://www.voanews.com/usa/us-politics/transcript-president-trumps-state-union-address
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His administration did not take all the necessary steps to safeguard citizens or the production of masks and respirators would have been high on the agenda. Further the next day at the rally he accused the fake media and Democrat (sic) Party of a hoax.THen there's this
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213100287

and this

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213103057

[dhill926]

11. thanks for this....

will help when dealing with his drooling minions....

[malaise]

13. There's an interview with him in January

He knew - he wanted it to go away

[Bengus81]

10. What was the exact date he was calling it a Dem HOAX to his

knuckle draggers at that MAGOT rally? That date speaks volumes as to the total denial he was in,how it was all BS and would never reach the US in any kind of significant numbers.

[malaise]

14. February 28 and then he repeated it at another rally the day after the SOTU

Trump says the coronavirus is the Democrats’ ‘new hoax’
PUBLISHED FRI, FEB 28 20207:32 PM ESTUPDATED SAT, FEB 29 20203:14 PM EST
Thomas Franck
@TOMWFRANCK
KEY POINTS
President Trump says that Democrats are using the virulent coronavirus as a “hoax” to damage him and his administration.
“The Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus,” he said from a campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina. “This is their new hoax.”
The coronavirus, which began in Wuhan, China, has now killed more than 2,800 people worldwide and infected more than 80,000.
The total number of cases in the U.S. was 63 as of the latest announcements, with most cases being former passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship and evacuees from Wuhan.

[Windy City Charlie]

12. The reason

The reason he's saying that now is because the political strategy is to blame it on China for lying to the international community on how bad the pandemic was. Saying he had early warnings would kill the narrative of their political strategy.