Posted on 03/21/2020 9:10:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
On Friday, the Washington Post posted a bizarre and counterfactual story that alleges that Wuhan virus spread into the United States because President Trump ignored warnings from…get this…our intelligence agencies about a pandemic developing in China, a pandemic that was to become the foreign Chinese Wuhan Kung-Flu bat virus pandemic that has panicked us into shutting down the US economy. The bylines are Shane Harris, Greg Miller, Josh Dawsey and Ellen Nakashima. All of these will seem familiar from the Russia Hoax stories that rolled out of the Post like marbles from a bag with holes in it.
U.S. intelligence agencies were issuing ominous, classified warnings in January and February about the global danger posed by the coronavirus while President Trump and lawmakers played down the threat and failed to take action that might have slowed the spread of the pathogen, according to U.S. officials familiar with spy agency reporting.
The intelligence reports didn’t predict when the virus might land on U.S. shores or recommend particular steps that public health officials should take, issues outside the purview of the intelligence agencies. But they did track the spread of the virus in China, and later in other countries, and warned that Chinese officials appeared to be minimizing the severity of the outbreak.
Taken together, the reports and warnings painted an early picture of a virus that showed the characteristics of a globe-encircling pandemic that could require governments to take swift actions to contain it. But despite that constant flow of reporting, Trump continued publicly and privately to play down the threat the virus posed to Americans. Lawmakers, too, did not grapple with the virus in earnest until this month, as officials scrambled to keep citizens in their homes and hospitals braced for a surge...
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
You can expect the House to hold Wuhan Flu hearings to continue to peddle this narrative. The RATS have nothing to run on. Blaming Trump for everything is all they have!
Here’s a GREAT idea: use the Washington Compost as toilet paper if you can’t find any Charmin locally. Best use ever for that rag!
Pray for President Trump and this nation. Our enemies are working as never before to destroy us.
I have no doubt that you’re correct.
You can expect the House to hold Wuhan Flu hearings to continue to peddle this narrative. The RATS have nothing to run on. Blaming Trump for everything is all they have!
Doubt it. What are they going to say? Why didnt you shut down our boarders? Because you called Trump racist when he tried to restrict travel? Besides democraps, you are for open boarders. You refuse to finance a border wall, and your leftist judges refuse to enforce travel bans, overruling the SCOTUS! This is what you get!
Please do it I beg you democraps! Been a while since you’ve been humiliated!
It was an awful article. It had all the failings of current “journalism” in our country: mischaracterized quotes, unidentified sources, descriptions of meetings with the President by people not present at those meetings, and descriptions of alleged warnings by unspecified intelligence agencies that were ominous but so general as to be almost meaningless. It was propaganda peddled without shame.
in other words, garbage, like all the other WaPo articles.
“according to U.S. officials familiar with spy agency reporting”
what the hell does that even mean? the guys who deliver the Danish and coffee in the mornings? copyroom lady? subcontractor who waters the plants or feeds the tropical fish? guys who runs the floor buffers at night?
it’s obvious that WaPo just made up this whole story out of thin air, and President Trump said that today ...
no wonder it took four “reporters” to make up this story ... not a single one of them was imaginative to make it up on their own ...
The CIA is threat to America. Plain and simple. They appear to be helping China.
We need so many miles of hemp rope we’re going to need a stimulus package for it.
“The CIA is threat to America. Plain and simple. They appear to be helping China.”
I believe you’re right. It’s time to make the American people aware of this problem.
There was no intelligence briefing. Just people talking about stories they heard coming out of China just like everyone else.
The World Health Organization was even downplaying it. They said there was no human to human transmission.
I expect Chuck Todd will use this for a segment on Meet the Press.
World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO Jan 14, 2020
"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China"
https://twitter.com/WHO/status/1217043229427761152
Even when I lived in DC 12 years ago, THE WASHINGTON COMPOST was widely called: PRAVDA ON THE POTOMAC.
LIES & LEFTIST foolishness are more common in THE COMPOST than facts.
Yours, TMN78247
left wingers: Trump didn’t do enough when he heard about the virus coming out of China!!!!!
meanwhile...
left wingers: How dare you call it the Chinese Flu! It’s got nothing to do with China!!!!
Right now they say nothing and are scrambling because this virus is a threat to their campaigning... but once that threat is gone, fake news time it will be, trying to catch the prez in an inquiry.
This sham is already imploding and those in the CIA who perpetrated this are now exposed. They are dead!
There’s probably three CIA guys based out of Wuhan and they were probably sending reports back each week that something crappy is going on in Wuhan, and the CIA chiefs in DC....more intent on Trump being impeached or taken down....filed the messages in a side-drawer.
If you went looking for the trio today....probably all three are dead from the virus.
Who you working for, CIA. China/Russia/DeepState or the USA. Make your minds up assholes.
This entire scenario is laying bare the totalitarian nature of democrats and the deep state.
Fight back, folks, and vote Donlad J. Trump in November.
JoMa
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