The president was warned in early briefings that the virus was going to 'spread globally,' according to a White House official who said Trump was told deaths were happening 'only in China.'
President Trump walks outside the White House in January. The president received intelligence briefings on the coronavirus twice that month, according to a White House official.President Trump walks outside the White House in January. The president received intelligence briefings on the coronavirus twice that month, according to a White House official.President Trump twice received intelligence briefings on the coronavirus in January, according to a White House official.
"The president was told that the coronavirus was potentially going to 'spread globally,'"the official said of the first briefing, which came two days after theof the virus was reported in the United States."But the 'good news' was that it was not deadly for most people," the official said the president was told.
Five days after that initial briefing, the president was briefed again, according to the official. This time,"he was told that virus was spreading outside of China, but that deaths from the disease were happening only in China," the official said."He was also told that China was withholding data." The question of what Trump knew about the coronavirus, when he was aware of it and the tenor of those conversations have
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