Peter Navarro memos warning of mass coronavirus death circulated West Wing in January (2020)

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Aaron Rupar
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Remember when news broke in April 2020 about then-White House adviser Peter Navarro's "grim" memo predicting 543,000 US Covid deaths? Turns out he was prescient, even if his number turned out to be a bit low.
Image from a page of a memo to President Trump on covid-19

Peter Navarro memos warning of mass coronavirus death circulated West Wing in January
President Trump was far slower to publicly acknowledge the sort of scenarios Navarro had put in writing.
axios.com
8:08 PM · Jul 15, 2021

In late January, President Trump's economic adviser Peter Navarro warned his White House colleagues the novel coronavirus could take more than half a million American lives and cost close to $6 trillion, according to memos obtained by Axios.

The state of play: By late February, Navarro was even more alarmed, and he warned his colleagues, in another memo, that up to 2 million Americans could die of the virus.

* Navarro's grim estimates are set out in two memos — one dated Jan. 29 and addressed to the National Security Council, the other dated Feb. 23 and addressed to the president. The NSC circulated both memos around the White House and multiple agencies.

* In the first memo, which the New York Times was first to report on, Navarro makes his case for "an immediate travel ban on China."

* The second lays the groundwork for supplemental requests from Congress, with the warning: "This is NOT a time for penny-pinching or horse trading on the Hill."

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Sounds like 1st person evidence #1

[roamer65]

2. Sounds like a solid case for negligent homicide against Dump.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Add this to Bob Woodward's taped conversations

with the fucking moron when he admitted that he knew Covid would be extremely deadly to the US citizens and you have a good case for a tRump/genocide hearing.

[RockRaven]

4. Even total pieces of shit are occasionally not wrong about everything...

Who is trying to rehab Peter Navarro's reputation by feeding this to reporters, though?

Besides the obvious of himself.

[MLAA]

5. That asshole is beyond rehabilitation!

But agree, it’s suspicious about who leaked these memos.

[Stuart G]

6. Thank You for posting...K and R

[malaise]

7. Crimes against humanity

Lock up the Slobfather!

[gulliver]

8. Trump's sweeping COVID under the rug because he thought it would hurt his reelection...

...chances should be considered a high crime. He should have been impeached for that too.

Trump would have been reelected in a landslide if he had simply acted in the best interest of the country and its people. Keeping hundreds of thousands from dying, reopening sooner, being among the top countries in the world in dealing with the pandemic instead of at the bottom...all Trump had to do was the right thing. He did the wrong thing for selfish reasons instead.

What are you if you're going to get ice cream in your car and you deliberately block an ambulance on an exit just to save yourself drive time...and the patient dies in the ambulance behind your car? That's what Trump is–more than half a million times over. That's what Trump's supporters have a share of.

I think one of the psychological reasons Trumpies feel they must support Trump is the avoidance of intense guilt. What Trump really did with the pandemic and in the insurrection was done by a guy they supported. They are responsible if he is. Therefore, they strain and yowl that he isn't responsible, hoping their own consciences won't get the deception.