FACT CHECK: When President Trump was briefed on coronavirus by the intelligence community, he acted.
Joe Biden likes to claim President Trump “ignored” intelligence briefings about coronavirus, but he’s wrong.
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Joe Biden likes to claim President Trump “ignored” intelligence briefings about coronavirus, but he’s wrong.
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On Jan 23, the Intelligence Community briefed President Trump for the first time about COVID-19.
The briefing said the coronavirus from China is poised to spread globally, but the good news is that it is not deadly for most people.
The briefing said the coronavirus from China is poised to spread globally, but the good news is that it is not deadly for most people.
The next briefing, on Jan 28, President Trump was told it was spreading outside China and the deaths remained inside China.
He was also told China was not sharing key data.
He was also told China was not sharing key data.
The evidence is clear the President Trump and his Administration acted immediately on these briefings.
On January 27, the White House Coronavirus Task Force started meeting to help monitor and contain the spread of the virus and provide updates to the President.
On January 31, a day after the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global health emergency, President Trump announced restrictions on travel from China – which Democrats like Joe Biden and the media attacked as xenophobic and racist.
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been clear that President Trump did not delay at all in taking action when the experts recommended it, and that he “acted very, very early” to combat the virus.
Even Joe Biden’s top coronavirus advisor Ron Klain admitted on February 11 that the Trump Administration was “far from doing nothing.”
It’s time for Joe Biden – and the media – to stop lying. The record is clear: President Trump was first briefed by the intelligence community about the coronavirus at the end of January. He acted immediately.
