VIDEO: Trump Ignored Pandemic Warnings
April 10, 2020
Trump keeps lying when he says that no one saw the coronavirus pandemic coming. His own government has been warning about the risks of a pandemic for years, and he was specifically warned about COVID-19 by at least early January — and yet he did nothing.
TRUMP’S LIE: “It’s an unforeseen problem.”
THE TRUTH: New York Times: “Before Virus Outbreak, a Cascade of Warnings Went Unheeded”
TRUMP’S LIE: “What a problem. Came out of nowhere.”
THE TRUTH: New York Times: “Government exercises, including one last year, made clear that the U.S. was not ready for a pandemic like the coronavirus. But little was done.”
TRUMP’S LIE: “This was something that nobody has ever thought could happen to this country.”
THE TRUTH: Politico: “Before Trump’s inauguration, a warning: ‘The worst influenza pandemic since 1918’”
TRUMP’S LIE: “Something that just surprised the whole world.”
THE TRUTH: NPR: “FEMA Predicted Pandemic Effects In July 2019”
TRUMP’S LIE: “If people would have known about it, it could have stopped — been stopped in place.”
THE TRUTH: USA Today: “Trump says he never saw aide’s memos that warned coronavirus could endanger millions of Americans”