WHY PRESIDENT TRUMP COULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING MANY AMERICANS

…Trump's Mar-a-Lago Resort in Florida

Trump was made aware of the virus in China as early as November 2019

Part I:

Over my coming articles, I will show why the above stated headline is true.

I will use Trump’s history with the pandemic and how his past actions support the above headline.

The novel coronavirus (Novel meaning “new” which medically means, no one is immune to the virus), this problem should have initially been handled by the National Security Council.

Early Negative Actions by President Trump:

In Trump’s early days of 2017, the president’s administration gutted a number of positions in  the National Security Council.

This was the group, initially set up by President Obama that had the expertise in dealing with pandemics.

Even back when President George W. Bush was in office, and after the debacle of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, he had cautioned the country that,

“If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare for it”.

Also in early 2017, Obama’s national security team had spent a full day with the Trump team.

The Obama team had briefed them on the most pressing national security issues,

including the threat that the United States was vulnerable to the threat of a pandemic.

The Obama team also left the Trump team a 69 page book detailing what they had learned in dealing with viral outbreaks.

Apparently, no one in the Trump team ever read the Obama book.

In January 2019, the Director of US National intelligence had warned that the United States was already vulnerable to the next flu pandemic that could lead to massive deaths and that it would “severely affect the nation’s and the world economy”.

Trump has totally ignored all of his own intelligence info and he definitely ignored this. 

Public budgets were slashed that also affected those that would be responsible for these issues.

Things were so ignored, that even as recently as March 7^th, a who’s who of the GOP were gathered at Trump’s lavish Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

The event was for Donald Trump Jr’s. girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle’s birthday party. 

Attending were Rudy Guiliani, Sen. Lindsay Graham, Tiffany Trump, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, and Eric Trump and his wife, Lara.

They sang “Happy Birthday” to Kimberly, and they lit her a big sparkler.  She finished the song with a pumping of her fist yelling: “Four more Years” to great applause.

By that time, China was already shutdown.  They had quarantined 760 million people, and there were over 100,000 confirmed case of the coronavirus.  3060 people had died in China, and in the US, there were 100 new cases reported on that same day.

The fear was rising in the US, and supermarkets were already being stripped in panic buying.

So, Trump had been notified of the concerns about a future pandemic and he was aware of the problems in China as early as November 2019 in his daily intelligence reports.

However, those reports were in writing, and he hates reading reports.  His son-in-law, Jared, might not have read these reports to him.

As we have been told, this is the way he likes to get his info.  He also like getting his info from Fox News. 

Actually, weeks before the aforementioned birthday party, in January, Trump had a previous get-together at Mar-a-Lago.  It was at that time that Trump had been downplaying the outbreak of the virus in China.  As far as he was concerned, it was merely another bogus plot to sabotage his economy and his re-election.

Trump played a round of golf that day and then he had a large dinner with the right-wing Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro. 

This is the Brazilian President that is well known as the king of coronavirus deniers.  He had called the virus: “a little flu”.

There were many people at that dinner, and one at the dinner would later test positive, as did the Miami Mayor, Francis Suraez, who had met with Bolsonaro at a previous event in Miami.

That event at Mar-a-Lago was truly a “Trump petri dish evening”.  They mingled, shook hands and hugged. 

There was no hand sanitizer in sight and the group must have left the virus on doorknobs, glasses, silverware and on each other.

We may never know how many people got sick after that dinner

This is all so stunning because Trump is well known as a self-confessed germaphobe

who often douses himself with hand sanitizer after a single handshake.

In fact, years before, Donald Trump had been concerned that someone might try to poison him, and that’s why he became such a fast-food fan, where he could get his safe food from a fast food kitchen.

Stay tuned for Part II of the history of Trump and the Covid-19 pandemic. 

The next part will go back to make you aware of how the pandemic started in Wuhan, China at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.

Copyright G. Ater 2020