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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,111 posts)
Tue Sep 14, 2021, 07:49 PM Sep 2021

Former Trump advisers used private emails to warn of 'critical mistakes' in pandemic response

Source: The Hill

Top advisers to former President Trump used private emails to warn of the government's "critical mistakes" in response to the coronavirus pandemic, even as the president was downplaying the severity of the virus, according to emails obtained by the House coronavirus subcommittee and released Tuesday.

Steven Hatfill, a virologist who worked as an outside consultant for the administration, privately warned White House trade director Peter Navarro at the end of February 2020 that the U.S. did not have any accurate sense of just how many people were infected with the virus.

"In truth we do not have a clue how many are infected in the USA. We are expecting the first wave to spread in the US within the next 7 days," Hatfill wrote to Navarro on Feb. 29.

"This will be accompanied by a massive loss of credibility, and the Democratic accusations are just now beginning. This must be countered with frank honesty about the situation and decisive direct actions that are being taken and can be seen in the broadcast news."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-trump-advisers-used-private-emails-to-warn-of-critical-mistakes-in-pandemic-response/ar-AAOqYQb?li=BBnb7Kz

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Former Trump advisers used private emails to warn of 'critical mistakes' in pandemic response (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2021 OP
😠 blm Sep 2021 #1
Of course they did.....the GOP has been running their communications on non-government servers. OAITW r.2.0 Sep 2021 #2
This article lost me at "frank honesty" underpants Sep 2021 #3
I'm impressed they used the word "Democratic" Skittles Sep 2021 #4
Trump's response: "I don't know any Frank Honesty. Who's that? Never heard of him." n/t thesquanderer Sep 2021 #8
I have a really stupid rhetorical question here. Why in the name of fuck was Carlitos Brigante Sep 2021 #5
The question arises,... LudwigPastorius Sep 2021 #6
....but her emails LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2021 #7
It all boils down too this " IT IS TOTALLY ON TRUMP & PENCE !" in a nut shell ! monkeyman1 Sep 2021 #9
Navarro was one of the worst. One of the most dishonest responders to pandemic. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2021 #10
They knew and yet did everything they could to avoid responsibility for saving lives. Ford_Prefect Sep 2021 #11

OAITW r.2.0

(23,851 posts)
2. Of course they did.....the GOP has been running their communications on non-government servers.
Tue Sep 14, 2021, 07:57 PM
Sep 2021

Since 2000? Organized crime parties that also create laws, do this.

Carlitos Brigante

(26,483 posts)
5. I have a really stupid rhetorical question here. Why in the name of fuck was
Tue Sep 14, 2021, 08:13 PM
Sep 2021

a fake economist being consulted about pandemics!!??

LudwigPastorius

(8,944 posts)
6. The question arises,...
Tue Sep 14, 2021, 08:22 PM
Sep 2021

who is more evil? ...Trump the broken, lunatic solipsist, or those around him who knew what is right and wrong, but continued to enable and enact his policies of mass death?

Ford_Prefect

(7,828 posts)
11. They knew and yet did everything they could to avoid responsibility for saving lives.
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 09:44 AM
Sep 2021

I have said it from the first we heard of the impending pandemic. They do not know how to do anything except blame someone else. They cannot lead nor acknowledge faults and failures because they are not there to do the job. They are there to grift, every damn one of them.

There needs to be a tribunal; a public reckoning of who knew and when, and what they did not do to preserve the health and safety of America... And chief among them should be the enablers large and small.

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