Why Did Trump Downplay Warnings On Coronavirus? | Morning Joe | MSNBC

New reporting lays out when U.S. intelligence agencies issued warnings to the president about the coronavirus and how the president dealt with the intelligence. NBC News' Carol Lee discusses. Aired on 04/28/2020.
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Why Did Trump Downplay Warnings On Coronavirus? | Morning Joe | MSNBC

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    1. Anthony Bha progressives are mostly in states who go to the Dem candidate regardless. So, they really don’t come into play in deciding the president. The center-left & center-right in swing states determine the president.

    2. Never gonna happen…A Democrat will not be tolerated either..Half this country will drag the Democrat out of office and gut the maggot

    3. Civil war is coming that will make the Middle east look like grade school…The world is on a course to suicide…the Kidos college fund..ahhhh ask Syria

    4. ​@snooop Dizzzle​ Willing to bet you thought the same thing about the former president

    5. snooop Dizzzle Christ, are YOU what America has been reduced to??? Smh, I give thanks I don’t live in such a country, infested with you vile specimens.

    1. Also compelling case of US corruption involvement and/or others big pharma/corportation/organization (ie perhaps from North Korea, Switzerland’s Novartis – see vid below)

      https://youtu.be/CSRD6fbQYnw The Last American Vagabond channel

      http://youtu.be/bIeoSqpbj9Y KI report

      http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/17/4227570/project-bioshield-vaccine-stockpiling-bird-flu-avian-influenza

      https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-coronavirus-shocking-update/5705196

      https://youtu.be/8Zjra-V5kjA Novartis Pharma

    2. Chicago Boy it’s a shame you can’t speak English because I’m sure you meant “that WE won’t be seeing you here again. But nice try🤣

    3. Savannah Rey That’s a big word for a Frumpist, hope you didn’t hurt yourself stating the obvious 😂

    4. @Claudia Montoya – Go back to your Mommy’s basement and spew more hate at President Trump, libpig

    1. Wilmo Mee don’t worry dude. The Orange Godzilla Republicans released on the Champagne Socialists wont be stopped. You lost! You’re on the wrong side of history.

    2. daffy72 Can you please point to where I defended him? I literally said that you should learn to spell at a pre-k level before you make an argument…. I never said I support him. Quit acting like a child

    3. @daffy72 ok daf.. Time to smell the coffee…. they are here for reason. To continue promoting lies and hatred. Sorry that’s not what freedom of speech is for.

  1. The American president can barely read,..so his daily WH intelligence briefings are put into pictures and video’s . Hahahaaa

    1. @Christien du Preez Inject disinfectant – and you still defend him.
      He’s the moron king of the moron people of moron land.

  2. Invoke the 25th Amendment. When I typed this question: “What type of person would sarcastically suggest that people who look up to them and see them as an authority figure go and harm themselves?” there were over 9k hits regarding Personality Disorders. tRump is protected from indictment by his position as “sitting President” and when he is no longer “sitting President” he WILL be vulnerable. All of tRump’s co-conspirators are currently in jail and that makes tRump a felon-in-all-but-name. The Mueller Report laid it out and Barr and the GOP led Senate rolled it up and threw it out the window. WHY?

    No matter how many times I ask the question – I never get an answer. WHY is the GOP running an Impeached felon-in-all-but-name in a November 2020 election when tRump’s immunity from indictment ENDS in January 2021? How is it possible that a man in tRump’s legal position is able to run for high office in the USA? How is it legal?

    1. wiremantw Freedom & Liberty Forever I have a very difficult time believing that with all of the prime candidates we had at the beginning of the primary the only two people we had left standing are the socialist Bernie and Joe Biden. With Joe’s serious cognitive issues and now the sexual allegations anyone of our other candidates would be head and shoulders above what we have now. I’ve got to think that this is more DNC meddling.

    2. @Bill Ashbrook Lets do a few facts on the Corruption counter to help you better see the truth. In the breaking hours of the Trump Colluded with Russia story every news outlet was sighting the Steel Dossier being the proof needed to begin the FBI investigation on Trump. We now have learned that the FBI knew that the dossier was all disinformation planted by the Russian & Ukraine sources they were compiled by & they went ahead & obtained FISA Warrants whit it to begin surveillance of Carter Page who was part of Trump’s campaign staff. Net surveillance is applied to any & all people that the primary target may contact. So every person Carter Page spoke to was then open game to include in the surveillance of Carter Page took place. This all was proven with declassified documents. Then 27 people at the FBI were fired or removed! Now W. Barr is beginning his indictment stage of the criminal investigation. REALLY. J Comey, J.Brennan, J.Clapper, A.McCabe,
      S. Rice, and R. Muller proved by finding NO EVIDENCE of COLLUSION with Russia was ever found. And now we learn that Russia was actually helping Hillary Clinton in securing that dossier! So did B. Obama know and who authorized all that spying on Trump from the start if there was Russian sourced crap as their excuse?

    3. @T. R. Campbell … okay … IF you truly believe that “trial” was fair to those that impeached pResident tRump – I would say it actually may stand to be at a elementary school level, teaching 5th graders what is the bare minimum requirement to fit a trial – even though it is ABSOLUTE b.s.

    4. Tamara Swart Who said fairness had anything to do with it? Fairness has nothing whatsoever to do with this. This was a political event. The Trump Impeachment in the House and the Senate acquittal was all political and, I might add a monumental waste of time. We are in total agreement, the entire episode was absolute BS.

    5. @T. R. Campbell Oh, I understand that nothing isnthe way it should be these days in politics. I have a deep love of the way America SHOULD operate if done the way it was meant to be … Unfortunately, people these days are extremely quick to have these partisan bloodbaths … I have friends on both sides of the aisle; granted more that hold the beliefs I hold … but I find reasons that unite me to thise I know as friends, family, acquaintances, co•workers, etc. … IF, during the trial; everyone had testified, everyone told the truth, … … … THEN I would respect the results. Unfortunately, America isn’t having that. And, now with COVID•19; Americans are STILL going at it.
      Like here in Michigan; the tRumpers protesting … I am 100% for the 2nd Amendment – it goes with the others such as freedom of religion – I think it is ABSOLUTE b.s. that most Dems don’t support the right to bear arms (well most do, they just want better [NOT MORE] regulations. I agree with that – but stand up to them asking them to speak it so their Republican friends know they support it. Then, the Republicans who want God in government or school – that isn’t the way our government operates. AND; I support both. Anyhoo; that is where I stand. ✌😷

    1. It’s easy to have a limited attention span with the media. There are better things in life to do than talk to hecklers and ankle-biters. When you’re dealing with dumb media people, you have to dumb down your approach.

    2. Agnes Philomena and is it okay to ignore your security experts when they’re briefing you on important information? Or are they fake news too?

  3. from now on all presidents should be required to pass a 4th grade reading comprehension test. and show their taxes.

    1. Too bad, I was hoping you would run for POTUS instead of your leader Biden whose brain was fried even in the late 1980s when he plagiarized a speech in his first run for POTUS, and has been wrong (according to former CIA boss Robert Gates) on every foreign policy issue for decades.

    2. They should at the very least be vetted. Ten years tax returns and investigated for foreign ties. Our president Should work for it’s people.

    3. Yeah NWO Joe would be sooo much better, as long as his wife is there to read the teleprompter for him.

  4. If this is the way the president acts in a virus pandemic can you imagine if a war broke out. WE WOULD ALL BE DEAD……

    1. Well, you will be even ‘deader” if the Dems are in charge. Don’t you find it very strange, that they are hiding in their mansions, HAPPY to leave your precious lives SOLELY in the hands of the incompetent president? This IS a war, a war against an unseen enemy, and the dems are missing in action. You people must really think well, and hard.

    2. @Agnes Philomena Do you see my avatar? That is the guidon of my last Army Armored Cavalry Troop command. Above it is the saber presented to me by the lieutenants that were under my command. On it are the maroon beret I wore when assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division. All of that gives lie to your proposition that so called “leftist” hate America. Why? By my general politics and social outlook I could be considered a “leftist”. Where is your proof that you love America?

    3. @deamonomic the flu has been around for a long time, the covid just showed up 2 months ago and has killed as many as 19yrs in Vietnam.

  5. America knew what they were getting when this guy was elected POTUS. You could tell from the campaign that he had limited vocabulary and you could also tell he has limited intelligence. Just listen to him speak and you immediately know what you have. November can’t get here early enough…..

    1. Ballisticafr2
      “Fordham University is confirming Michael Cohen’s claim that he threatened to take legal action against the New York school if it released then-candidate Donald Trump’s academic records during the presidential campaign.

      Fordham spokesman Bob Howe confirmed to The Associated Press that Trump’s legal team threatened action if any records were released.

      https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/431983-fordham-confirms-cohen-threatened-legal-action-if-it-released-trumps

    2. Ballisticafr2 , yes and that is why he was elected. Forget about the blatant racism just below the veneer of our “society” that he only inflamed, forget about the blatant misogyny he embraces, forget about the mean spirited way he speaks, forget about all that. THE reason he got elected and has supporters that will back him no matter what is BECAUSE he is willfully ignorant, BECAUSE he is mean spirited and openly hostile to intellectual people, because he makes the least educated and most emotionally driven people comfortable. They look at him and actually believe, “he is one of us”.

    1. @LardGreystoke Joe Scarborough was downplaying the Communist Party Virus before Trump closed the borders. Then Scarborough was complaining that Trump closed the borders. Then Scarborough complained that Trump didn’t close the borders fast enough. And why did Scarborough’s aid die in his apartment?

    2. GrassFedMeats The lies you are so eagerly willing to tell. You are just like Trump. Trash.

    1. How many world class golf clubs and resorts do you own.? The Trump Organ. employs thousands , Obama None.

    2. @Mary Ellen Gelner He licenses the Trump name on most of them and recieves a royalty as income, although not the actual owner, BUT, if YOU need someone greater than you to admire and emulate, to improve your self esteem, you aren’t the first person in history to need that.
      That’s a major part of being in a cult ; a strong authority figure that you identify with to make up for your own perceived lack of value as a person.

      It’s not your fault, necessarily.

    3. @Mary Ellen Gelner How many PROFITABLE clubs and resorts does tRump own? None…

      Obama didn’t inherit half a billion dollars from his daddy. tRump was born on third base and has convinced gullible people that he hit a triple.

    4. @Mary Ellen Gelner You only said why there are so many conflicts of interest — which happen to be threats to national security.

  6. ‘Why did he ignore this so aggressively?’

    ‘Well Willy, it seems entirely likely he IS in fact a moron’

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