There were a lot of pandemic warnings Trump ignored that he wants to avoid becoming public

[dajoki]

Like All Else, Trump’s Inspector General Turnover Is about Pandemic
https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/04/04/like-all-else-trumps-inspector-general-turnover-is-about-pandemic/

Late last night, President Trump fired the Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, the Inspector General who alerted Congress of the whistleblower complaint that led to Trump’s impeachment. Trump effectively put Atkinson on administrative leave for 30 days in a move that skirts the legal requirement that an inspector general be fired for cause and Congress be notified of it.

Trump has been accused of firing Atkinson late at night on a Friday under cover of the pandemic to retaliate for the role Atkinson had — which consisted of nothing more than doing his job as carefully laid out by law — in Trump’s impeachment. It no doubt is.

But it’s also likely about the pandemic and Trump’s proactive attempts to avoid any accountability for his failures in both the pandemic response and the reconstruction from it.

There were a lot of pandemic warnings Trump ignored that he wants to avoid becoming public

I say that, first of all, because of the likelihood that Trump will need to cover up what intelligence he received, alerting him to the severity of the coming pandemic. Trump’s administration was warned by the intelligence community no later than January 3, and a month later, that’s what a majority of Trump’s intelligence briefings consisted of. But Trump didn’t want to talk about it, in part because he didn’t believe the intelligence he was getting.

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[exboyfil]

1. Great point

I was thinking a whiteboard showing Intelligence on one side and Trump statements/actions on the same day on the other side.

[northoftheborder]

2. My thought all along: contemporary intelligence ignored and hidden

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. And why didn't he believe the intelligence he was getting?

Inquiring minds would love to know? Too lazy to give a shit, can't be bothered, trusting his gut instincts...?

[colsohlibgal]

4. Good Luck With That

Much of the truth is out, and most of the rest of it will come before long. And of course that Orange Vain for no reason Idiot is on video calling it a Democrat hoax, saying it will go from 15 to 0, saying it will go poof and soon go away. He was informed in January that this was coming.

He and Faux News and other righ wing media are so culpable and have copious blood on their hands. They could not be more liable for lawsuits. I hope it shuts them all down and maybe then a few of their viewers might figure out they’ve been had, been lied too. And if that comes with unnecessary deaths of relatives that would seem to maybe be a deal breaker.