ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL: Trump, who has also admitted that he never read or sought to read a January mem

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ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL: Trump, who has also admitted that he never read or sought to read a January memorandum warning of the danger posed by #COVID19, told reporters that he never saw a November intelligence report warning of a new virus spreading in China.

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Trump Says He Never Saw Intelligence Community Reports on Initial Coronavirus Outbreak

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-he-never-saw-intelligence-community-reports-initial-coronavirus-outbreak-1496958
By Andrew Feinberg On 4/8/20 at 7:38 PM EDT
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he never saw an Intelligence Community report which in November detailed intelligence officials' concerns over a then-newly discovered coronavirus spreading among humans in Wuhan, China.

According to two intelligence officials who spoke to ABC News, the November report came from the Defense Department's National Center for Medical Intelligence, was based on communications intercepts and satellite photography, and raised significant concerns because officials believed that a new disease spreading out-of-control in Asia would pose a real threat to U.S. forces based in the region.

One source told ABC News that intelligence analysts' conclusion was that a new contagion spreading through China "could be a cataclysmic event," and that conclusion was shared with the White House on multiple occasions, culminating in a detailed description of the problem appearing in Trump's President's Daily Brief (PDB) in early January.

The appearance of the PDB item coincided with White House Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro's decision to author a memo to the president warning about the economic consequences of a pandemic.

But when asked when he learned of the Intelligence Community's concerns during Wednesday's White House daily briefing, Trump told reporters that he learned about the matter around January 31, when the he signed a presidential memorandum prohibiting foreign nationals who'd visited China from entering the United States.

"When I learned about the gravity of it was sometime just prior to closing the country to China," Trump said..................................

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[Newest Reality]

1. Asleep at the wheel?

I still tend to think that using his ignorance as a premise is incorrect.

He has been driving this death cab for Cutie with his eyes wide open all along.

That's just my opinion and I base on his actions so far. I also tend to put myself in his position, (yeah, it's nasty) and play a power monger narcissistic dictator with ulterior motives. What would I want? Would I be flexible? What I ignored or acted on would all be centered around one purpose.

One thing for certain, you cannot trust him at all. In that case, you can't even trust the facades he displays if you really believe he is a con man. The confidence works two ways.

[EarlG]

2. "I don't know the intelligence community."

“I get my picture taken with lots of people. I might have been in a picture with them once but I don’t know who they are.”

[MyOwnPeace]

6. I "liked" the one.....

where IQ45 is sitting watching the Army-Navy game with disgraced "Acting" Secretary "I hardly know the guy" Modly.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Desperately trying to deflect attention from his gross incompetence. This level of incompetence...

is too big, however, to bury under the mat. This incompetence is burning a hole in his pants, obviously since he is trying to play the blame game and get blame shifted onto others, for his gross incompetence. It isn't working, this is too big, too many deaths, too many illnesses, and the incompetence has been going on since the end of last year. He was more concerned about his stupid campaign rallies, and his golf trips. How many did he go to, while all of this was starting to rage out of control?

Idiot. Gross dereliction of duty, and the shameful failure to fulfill one's obligations as a so called president.

[MyOwnPeace]

7. Certainly not trying to argue or fight.......

but the incompetence has been going on since January 20, 2017.

I DO agree with this (well said!):

"Idiot. Gross dereliction of duty, and the shameful failure to fulfill one's obligations as a so called president."

[ElementaryPenguin]

4. For ONCE the ignoramus may be telling the truth. They know he doesn't read...

They might have shoved in a folder and passed on to him, to cover their own asses, knowing he would never give it a glance (particularly if it was longer than a single bullet point).

WHAT A FUCKING CLOWN SHOW!!!!!!!

[npk]

5. Too busy golfing

tRump literally thought that the country would just run itself and he would take credit for the things that President Obama had put in motion. Like Dubya, tRump never thought he would encounter a crisis, and when he did, he was of course unprepared to handle it.

[MyOwnPeace]

8. "he was of course unprepared to handle it."

Not only "unprepared" - unqualified and incapable, which also describe his qualifications for the job!

[npk]

11. Yep so true

A total disgrace.

[Beartracks]

9. Trump: "I screwed up because I was ignorant, okay? Now aren't I doing a fantastic job?"

[Brother Buzz]

10. Idiots, all of them. They should know by now....

that if they insert and underscore the orange anus's name into the memorandums, the nimrod will read them. Hell, that's why God invented Sharpie® Highlighters.

[handmade34]

12. "Apathy is Deadly"

sign on my car years ago...

[NewJeffCT]

13. About the January briefing, didn't Trump say

that he wouldn't have changed his coronavirus response anyhow, since it was "perfect" ?

[struggle4progress]

14. "Read? Facts? What? Why?"