Trump says intelligence told him coronavirus was 'non-threatening' in January as criticism of his ea

[Judi Lynn]

Trump says intelligence told him coronavirus was 'non-threatening' in January as criticism of his early response persists
Griffin Connolly 13 hours ago

Donald Trump pushed back on Sunday against reporting that intelligence officials were issuing classified reports to his administration as early as November 2019 warning about the early outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China.

The President also claimed the restrictions he placed on travel to the US from China in January have saved "tens of thousands" of American lives, which he has used as a data point to defend against criticism that he did not take the threat of the coronavirus seriously.

"Intelligence has just reported to me that I was correct, and that they did NOT bring up the CoronaVirus subject matter until late into January, just prior to my banning China from the U.S.," Mr Trump tweeted. "Also, they only spoke of the Virus in a very non-threatening, or matter of fact, manner," the president added.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday he believes the virus was "man-made" and came from a lab in Wuhan, theories Mr Trump has also suggested.

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[Botany]

1. Bullshit. Trump was told of the threat by C-19 in November of 2019.*

And what did he and Kush-turd do when they learned about the coming C-19
pandemic? They looked on how to make money on it by:

1) Producing and selling their own coronavirus test kit instead of using the one produced by the W.H.O..

2) Promoting and selling their hydroxychloquine C-19 "cure all." aka snake oil

3) Sending/selling 18 tons of PPE to China in Feb. of 2020. And by not having enough PPE "they" killed and/or got sick
many Drs., nurses, 1st responders, and they spread the disease to God only knows how many Americans.
China is holding a 220 million dollar note over Trump and that might have something to do with that
shipment.


* U.S. Intelligence Warned Trump of Coronavirus Threat as Early as November: Report
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/u-s-intel-warned-of-coronavirus-threat-in-november-report.html

According to two officials familiar with a report from the military’s National Center for Medical Intelligence, the White House was aware of a contagion which is now known to be COVID-19 as early as November.

[mercuryblues]

2. This needs to be an OP every single day

There was no way we were going to get needed supplies until trump &co figured out a way to make a buck off it.

[Botany]

5. Trump and Kushner are still trying to make money off of all this disease and death

Look @ FEMA stealing needed medical supplies and sending them God only knows where.

JARED KUSHNER: "The notion of the federal stockpile was it's supposed to be our stockpile.
It's not supposed to be states stockpiles that they then use."

[Varaddem]

6. +1

[DUgosh]

3. Silly me - I was gathering supplies

Planning a garden, and buying elastic for masks in late January. I still have my first prototype quilted mask hanging on my bulletin board from early Feb- that was 165 masks ago.

[procon]

4. And he just now remembers this?

If that were true, then why did he ban travelers from China? What did he form a big task force with Pence in charge?

Trump is lying. He's desperate to find a scape goat o pin the blame on so he can try to avoid taking responsibility.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Zero evidence.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. No. He rejected US Intell; trusted China's Xi & the WHO before turning on them to shift blame. nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Most US cases came fr strains fr Europe. 5 lost weeks February, late Jan. Lots of golf & rallies

See animation map of vector strains from NextStrain.org: https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global?d=map&dmax=2020-04-20&dmin=2019-12-26&m=div&p=full

[Blue Owl]

10. Nice try, Donnie

Nice try...