Edward Luce spoke with dozens of officials to discover what went wrong in Donald Trump’s first real crisis — and found a president who ignored increasingly urgent intelligence warnings and dismissed anyone who claimed to know more than him https://t.co/jSkLQL4KCS
The U.S. had a program - PREDICT - that identified lethal viruses abroad to prevent their spread to the U.S..
It had found 1,200 viruses (and 160 coronaviruses) in 10 years.
It was actively working in China.
Two months before the Wuhan outbreak, Trump shut the program down.
Trump’s Department of State sending our national stockpile of PPE to China in February is one thing. But not directing companies to replenish that stockpile and then falsely accusing President Obama for leaving him with nothing is lying negligence almost to the point of treason.
@realDonaldTrump NY, NJ and CT are already sheltered in place, and being managed by Governors far more competent and credible than you.
It would be far more productive and helpful to the safety of all Americans if you quarantined YOURSELF.
Unbelievably, in the U.S. right now, doctors and nurses are unnecessarily putting their lives on the line treating people suffering from the coronavirus because they lack personal protective equipment like masks, gloves, and surgical gowns.
That is unacceptable.
#IStandWithIlhan and am proud to work with her in Congress.
Trump is stoking the most despicable and disturbing currents in our society. And that very hatred and racism fuels him. We must fight together to defeat the most dangerous president in the history of our country.