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Demovictory9

(32,324 posts)
Mon Apr 27, 2020, 08:59 PM Apr 2020

the warnings about coronavirus were in those daily reports Trump would not read

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/President-s-intelligence-briefing-book-repeatedly-15229783.php

WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence agencies issued warnings about the novel coronavirus in more than a dozen classified briefings prepared for President Donald Trump in January and February, months during which he continued to play down the threat, according to current and former U.S. officials.

The repeated warnings were conveyed in issues of the President's Daily Brief, a sensitive report that is produced before dawn each day and designed to call the president's attention to the most significant global developments and security threats.


For weeks, the PDB - as the report is known - traced the virus's spread around the globe, made clear that China was suppressing information about the contagion's transmissibility and lethal toll, and raised the prospect of dire political and economic consequences.

But the alarms appear to have failed to register with the president, who routinely skips reading the PDB and has at times shown little patience even for the oral summary he now takes two or three times per week, according to the officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified material.
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the warnings about coronavirus were in those daily reports Trump would not read (Original Post) Demovictory9 Apr 2020 OP
Oh don't you know he was too busy skipping lunch to read them? Blue Owl Apr 2020 #1
They should have put the briefings Chainfire Apr 2020 #2

Chainfire

(17,308 posts)
2. They should have put the briefings
Mon Apr 27, 2020, 09:56 PM
Apr 2020

on twitter, or sent them through a "church" cult. Maybe if they printed them like a comic book. I am thinking an Archie theme with pretty girls with big boobs on every page.....


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