Something fishy. SHITLER is impulsive, can't keep secrets, not strategic. He "knew"the COVID threat?

[UTUSN]

Above all, he's a showboat bloviator, the clown in the dive bar who has to be center of attention saying or doing anything to get it, the bragadoccio. This type loves to tell anybody - *after the fact* - that he knew stuff.

Am just catching up to this news, so my first impression was that the interviews were late in the spread with him trying to brag about how he knew how bad it would get, but am seeing the dates on the tapes being March and (before?).

It's totally believable that he was being told things early on, but what we know of him like his not heeding the Intelligence community, it's a bit of a stretch that he "appreciated" the import and then proceeded to put on an act of discounting it. While the tapes on the news were played with the contrast of what he was saying with Dr BIRX shuddering at the lies, it doesn't seem like she knew that HE knew the truth.

Maybe it's a slight possibility that he was trying to impress WOODWARD with a tale of his cheerleading strategy.

I'm willing to entertain the option that he is a flagrant CRIMINAL.

[cwydro]

1. Um, huh?

Yeah, he's a criminal. Thumb back a few pages/years.

[Nevilledog]

2. But he also knew he couldn't handle the situation. So he lied.

He's a short term thinker.

[Mike 03]

4. +1

There's a lot of truth in this too.

[Mike 03]

3. My guess is he was trying to impress Woodward, not about being a "cheerleader"

but just about how much he knew, name dropping President Xi, etc...

Trump only lives in the moment and the things that fly out of his mouth are only intended for the audience at any given moment. That is why he told a bunch of our troops that he had raised their salaries when he hadn't. In that moment, he wanted it to be true, but it wasn't.

He can't take responsibility for anything. He's a pathological liar. He doesn't want to believe anything that he considers bad news. Then, as for what he didn't do to save anybody, he's constitutionally lazy and extremely angry and even sadistic, and on top of that some of his close advisors might have given him ridiculous reasons that he was dumb enough to believe about why he should let the virus take its course in order to preserve the markets and the economy. It goes without saying he's failed on every level, unless one considers letting the Federal Reserve and Treasury prop up the absurdly bloated stock market a success.

Mary Trump's book is so worth reading. Or "Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" by Bandy Lee, et al.

[stillcool]

5. I think you may be right...

about impressing Woodward. He's consistently such a lying sack of hooey, why for gods sake would he be straight up with an author? He plays to his audience, for sure. Maybe he was trying to do damage control for the sake of his ego.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

6. He says he didn't want people to panic so he lied. He said it was a hoax.

His hands are dripping buckets of blood because he was too weak to tell the truth, too inept to lay out a plan, too scared to insist on mask mandates, quarantine and social distancing from the start.
Perhaps he thought his hunches about hydroxychloroquine and disinfectants in the body would offer hope. Instead, they brought confusion and more deaths. It will be a long time before the fallout from this nuclear presidency stops choking the life out of our economy, our healthcare system, the education of our children, the security of our families, and our relationship with and standing in the world. There will be lots of celebrating when he no longer resides in the White House.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. He was too busy trying to figure out how to profit from the pandemic

[rsdsharp]

8. I believe he told Woodward he knew it was serious

On February 7th. That’s pretty early in the game.

[crickets]

9. trump and others at the White House knew about COVID long before February

US notified Israel about coronavirus in mid-November: Israeli TV
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-notified-israel-about-coronavirus-in-mid-november-israeli-tv/ar-BB12NoCT

An Israeli TV network claims that US intelligence agencies knew of an emerging coronavirus outbreak in China and gave Israel an advance warning in mid-November 2019, more than a month before clusters of infection in China started to be globally reported.

US intelligence agencies had become aware of the outbreak as it spread early on in central China’s Wuhan City, Israel’s i24 news website cited a report by Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 as saying on Thursday.

The agencies decided to warn US allies, such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries and Israel, after initially passing the information on to the White House, “which did not deem it of interest,” according to the report.

The report did not specify when US intelligence agencies allegedly first learned of the coronavirus outbreak before notifying Israel in November.

trump knew the threat by the time February rolled around. He knew.