“Donald Trump may not have been expecting this, but a lot of other people in the government were — they just couldn’t get him to do anything about it. The system was blinking red,” one …
President Donald Trump listens during a coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, in Washington, D.C.The United States intelligence community has been warning the president since January and February about the dire consequences that would occur when
reached America, but the president seemed determined to play down the threat, leaving the country largely unaware and unprepared.intelligence agencies sent reports to Trump tracking the virus spreading through China and stating that the Chinese government was being dishonest and trying to minimize how severe the outbreak actually was.
But in January, the president was reassuring Americans. “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine,” he said onEven then-acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and head of the White House Domestic Policy Council Joe Grogan tried to get the president to act. Grogan warned that the coronavirus would cause significant disruptions to daily life and not taking it seriously could cost Trump the election.
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