Trade Adviser Warned White House in January of Risks of a Pandemic
Source: New York Times
A top White House adviser starkly warned Trump administration officials in late January that the coronavirus crisis could cost the United States trillions of dollars and put millions of Americans at risk of illness or death.
The warning, written in a memo by Peter Navarro, President Trumps trade adviser, is the highest-level alert known to have circulated inside the West Wing as the administration was taking its first substantive steps to confront a crisis that had already consumed Chinas leaders and would go on to upend life in Europe and the United States.
The lack of immune protection or an existing cure or vaccine would leave Americans defenseless in the case of a full-blown coronavirus outbreak on U.S. soil, Mr. Navarros memo said. This lack of protection elevates the risk of the coronavirus evolving into a full-blown pandemic, imperiling the lives of millions of Americans.
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DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)So even the Idiot's own people were directly warning him about this.
Trump and Rus-publicans: stop trying to blame the WHO, Chinese, or anyone else but yourselves.
"Russia, if you're listening, your puppet is a fool of the highest order. He has given all voters the case against him, hook, line, and sinker....if you get the drift."
Marcuse
(7,479 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,001 posts)Different assholes, same bullshit.
and same political party. It's not government failure, it's REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT failure.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Lock him up.
(6,928 posts)... or even if they'd have made one...
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,435 posts)..Fausi--perhaps both.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,285 posts)with the author, Maggie Haberman. She said because Navarro is obsessed with China, some advisors thought the memo had more to do with Navarro's anti-China bias than anything else. The inference was that this was a reason the memo might not have been taken as seriously as it should have been. Haberman thought because of the chaotic communication channels in the WH, it was entirely possible Trump hadn't seen it.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Chemisse
(30,810 posts)His action merely requires average intelligence and a minimal commitment to preventing catastrophe to the economy, which was likely his main concern.
Is anyone holding his actions up as anything more than that?
ConstanceCee
(314 posts)Was he stupid and naive to put this in writing? Should he be walked down a gangplank?
samsingh
(17,595 posts)stupid bush did the same thing holding a report that said Osama bin laden was going to attack the mainland and saying they had no idea 911 could happen.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,425 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)His inaction and lack of leadership is killing Americans.