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Just months into his presidency, a small circle of senior WH advisers met with Trump about a curated list containing the names of dozens of perceived political opponents, particularly leakers, working inside the government.

My latest for @CNN w @vmsalama:cnn.com/2020/03/07/pol…
The political plotting in the early days of Trump's presidency provides a window into a 3-year effort by Trump and his loyalists to identify and expunge suspected "deep state" opponents from the WH and other parts of the government, a move that was kept at bay until recent weeks.
Removing government officials seen as disloyal to the President has unfolded in earnest since Trump was impeached but not removed from office—and there are no signs the purges will let up.
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In **early January,** the National Security Council office responsible for tracking pandemics received intelligence reports predicting the spread of coronavirus to the U.S. nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/…
“These final days of Feb. illustrated Trump’s inability or unwillingness to absorb warnings coming at him. He instead reverted to his traditional political playbook in the midst of a public health calamity, squandering vital time as the virus spread silently across the country.”
“The chaotic culture of the Trump White House contributed to the crisis. A lack of planning and a failure to execute, combined with the president’s focus on the news cycle and his preference for following his gut rather than the data cost time, and perhaps lives.”
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While the wealthy may not be immune to Covid-19, their affluence makes it easier for them to insulate themselves. And yet some of the super-rich who have fled high-density areas like NYC may have put themselves at greater risk than if they had stayed put. edition.cnn.com/2020/04/05/opi…
The experience of the top 1% of US earners in the time of pandemic is harshly antithetical to the experience of an essential worker who must take public transport to get to a hospital or grocery store for a day's work.
One real estate mogul said he cracked open champagne beside the pool the day the CARES Act—the largest economic relief bill in U.S. history—was passed by Congress.

"Some people are going to get very rich out of this," someone else in the health care supplies business told me.
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The coronavirus testing-site website Trump promised on March 13 was built not by Google, but by a team of engineers at Oscar Health, where Jared Kushner’s younger brother is co-founder and investor.

The website has been suddenly and mysteriously scrapped. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Per @yayitsrob: “The company’s work on the coronavirus website could violate federal ethics laws, several experts said.”
In my book “Kushner Inc.,” I examined this conflict of interest with Oscar. For example, sources told me Jared kept trying to get his brother Josh involved in the shaping of a new health care bill. (Jared denies this.)
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