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The Washington Post Runs a Shameless CIA Authored Hit Piece to Blame President Trump for the Spread of Wuhan Virus
Red State ^ | 8:45 pm on March 21, 2020 | streiff

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...


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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 4thestate5thcolumn; coronavirus; domesticenemies; ellennakashima; enemiesofthepeople; wapo
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To: pepsionice

Probably not too many CIA assets left in China after that cyber fiasco in what, 2010? that resulted in China catching and executing a bunch of ‘em.


21 posted on 03/22/2020 1:55:26 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: TigersEye

Tree of liberty is looking mighty thirsty!

22 posted on 03/22/2020 2:10:54 AM PDT by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I seem to recall the House Intel Committee under Adam Schiff holding emergency briefings in Dec-Feb about the great threat to American national security....Trumps impeachment


23 posted on 03/22/2020 2:46:40 AM PDT by silverleaf (Remember kids: You can vote your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out!)
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To: piasa

Wiki leaks showed that they were compromised by Hillary Clintons criminally unsecure unclas chit chat


24 posted on 03/22/2020 2:49:30 AM PDT by silverleaf (Remember kids: You can vote your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out!)
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To: catnipman

“according to U.S. officials familiar with spy agency reporting”

what the hell does that even mean?

It means Brennan or Clapper or one of the other goons hired by CNN.


25 posted on 03/22/2020 3:07:50 AM PDT by Flick Lives (MIP: Media Induced Panic)
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To: RasterMaster

Not much bleeding on the ground from those swingers. Needs much more blood. Lots of it.


26 posted on 03/22/2020 3:18:37 AM PDT by rackatoot
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Weird. He acted on 1/31 and was called a racist. Screen shots of Schumer’s tweet plus all the media articles denouncing his move debunk this.


27 posted on 03/22/2020 6:09:01 AM PDT by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates.)
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To: EinNYC

Why would you or anyone have a WaPo newspaper?


28 posted on 03/22/2020 6:38:04 AM PDT by Buffalo Head (Illegitimi non carborundum)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Called it.

Meet the Press flashed the Washington Post headline. Chuck if blaming Trump for knowing early on.

29 posted on 03/22/2020 6:48:58 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I admit I didn’t read the actual article in the WaPo but did it mention that in Dec and January the media/dem complex was all wrapped in pushing IMPEACHMENT and couldn’t be bothered with reporting on the virus? Did it report how the media/dem complex had for 3 years deliberately attempted to block Trump and his administration from doing the job he was elected to do? Somehow I think they didn’t mention any of these things.


30 posted on 03/22/2020 7:22:54 AM PDT by euram
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They have knocked the wind out of us, the question is when is the death blow


31 posted on 03/22/2020 7:46:28 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: Bommer

You assume that the DemoNazis will have close to a fair hearing with anything but Trump-haters as witnesses. It would be a circus bigger than the impeachment circus.


32 posted on 03/22/2020 8:16:51 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (A socalist is someone that wants everything you have except your job.)
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To: Buffalo Head
Why would you or anyone have a WaPo newspaper?

What gave you the idea I would allow an issue of the Washington Pest into my home? Feh!

33 posted on 03/22/2020 11:05:39 AM PDT by EinNYC
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