Posted on 04/12/2020 5:36:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - By the time President Donald Trump first spoke publicly about the coronavirus, it may already have been too late.
Interviewed at Davos, a gathering of global elites in the Swiss Alps, the president on Jan. 22 played down the threat posed by the respiratory virus from China, which had just reached American shores in the form of a solitary patient in Washington state.
“We have it totally under control,” Trump said on CNBC. “It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s going to be just fine.”
In the 11 weeks since that interview, the coronavirus has reached every corner of the globe. It has infected more than 500,000 Americans and killed at least 20,000. It has rewritten the rules of society, isolated people in their homes, closed schools, devastated the economy and put millions out of work.
When Trump spoke in Switzerland, weeks’ worth of warning signs already had been raised. In the ensuing month, before the president first addressed the crisis from the White House, key steps to prepare the nation for the coming pandemic were not taken.
Life-saving medical equipment was not stockpiled. Travel largely continued unabated. Vital public health data from China was not provided or was deemed untrustworthy. A White House riven by rivalries and turnover was slow to act. Urgent warnings were ignored by a president consumed by his impeachment trial and intent on protecting a robust economy that he viewed as central to his reelection chances.
Twenty current and former administration officials and Republicans close to the White House were interviewed for this account about the critical weeks lost before the president spoke to the nation on Feb. 26. Most spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about private discussions.
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No credibility in that group. But we know the direction they want to take this story as usual
Monday morning quarterbacks one more time!
White House considering dramatic expansion of travel ban
Note to AP: Jeez, guys, now you're not even trying...
Yes of course, got to follow the Schiff, etc. line of inquiry for the next Trump impeachment fail attempt. GG.
The whole premise is preposterous. Doesn’t appear to be a nation on earth that recognized the danger sooner or acted any more quickly.
CHICOMS lied, people died.
Interesting take.
Here on Free Republic, we have waterboys pretending to be players
libertards are so dumb it takes four of these idiots to write a hit piece.
At that time the vaunted Dr. Tony Fauci was saying we had it under contro!.
I wonder if they are just a little bit embarrassed that it took four people to write this.
ASS-ociated press
Here we go. The corrupt MSM laying the ground work to blame Trump the same way they used a utterly false narrative with Katrina to bludgeon Bush.
Only if we let them. And it looks like you are one of those willing to let them.
Yeah, like a Congress hell-bent to Impeach President Donald Trump. Impeachment is a bit distracting.
Unfortunately the uninformed dolts getting certificates from most of our schools of lower ed and those who never were challenged to think critically buy into these BS hit pieces. Worse they find their way from opinion pieces into the “news” as fact.
This virus is 100% on the backs of democrats. Trump for the past 4 years, even before he took office, was demanding immigration laws be enforced one benefit of that is to prevent people carrying diseases from entering the USA, and the democrap party fought him furiously, fighting ICE, setting up sanctuary cities, refusing to finance the wall, bribing illegals into the country with promises of free healthcare and drivers licenses like New York did which is why New York now has more infected that entire countries.
Had President Trump issued the orders to go into full pandemic mode in January, after the first patient arrived, I’m sure the MSM would have been racing each other to be first to call him a dangerous dictator. They have opposed every single measure he has taken to stop the spread of this thing. And they were cheerleaders for a show impeachment, a dangerous distraction at the time the President was getting information from his experts.
No, AP, you have no credibility. There is a reason you are called “fake news” and we don’t trust you.
There was no way to avoid this. Delay it? Maybe. But not avoid it.
Also, it will resurface again and again. Do we run to our basements every time it resurfaces?
Our ancestors and the founders of this country confronted their fears and moved on. In some respects, this so called “pandemic” is nothing when compared to what they had to deal with.
Dumocrats and their lapdog media are nothing more than China’s b!tches...whoever is propping up these propagandists needs to be exposed.
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