Trump: No early corona warnings from U.S. intelligence agencies

Updated May 3, 2020, 11:46 p.m.

When did Donald Trump first find out about the existence of the corona virus? The US President resists the allegation that he disregarded early warnings in January. On the contrary, his entry stops at the end of January for people from China would have saved “tens of thousands of lives”.

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US president Donald Trump has rejected a media report that US intelligence agencies warned him early of the dangers posed by the Corona virus have warned. The secret services had confirmed to him that they only mentioned the topic in late January, Trump wrote on Sunday evening (local time) on Twitter.

Even then, they would only have raised the issue in a “very non-threatening way”. That was shortly before the immigration stop he issued for foreigners China In late January, who saved “tens of thousands of lives”. The “fake news” media was “as always” wrong, the US president wrote.

Little patience for official reports

The Washington Post reported last Monday that US intelligence agencies had warned of the corona virus more than a dozen times in their daily written reports to the President in January and February. The virus was first mentioned in early January. Trump regularly refrains from reading the reports and occasionally shows little patience with the oral information that is given two to three times a week.

Trump had initially reduced the risk of the virus. He has repeatedly rejected allegations that he reacted too late to the threat. According to an overview by Johns Hopkins University, more than 1.15 million infections have been confirmed in the United States (as of Sunday evening) – just under a third of all known infections worldwide. University scientists have registered more than 67,000 deaths in the United States. (best / dpa)

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