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Trump Ignored Early Intelligence Reports as Coronavirus Spread

HeadlineApr 28, 2020

The Washington Post is reporting that intelligence agencies warned President Trump about the threat of the coronavirus in over a dozen classified briefings in January and February. The warnings came in the President’s Daily Brief, which Trump regularly skips reading, according to the Post’s sources. Despite the warnings, the president continued to downplay the severity of the threat into February.

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