Trump Dismissed Coronavirus Warnings in January 2020: ‘Yeah, Okay’

  • Trump dismissed warnings about the coronavirus in January 2020, according to a new e book.
  • Then-HHS Secretary Alex Azar attempted to convey to Trump about the threat of COVID-19 in a telephone call.
  • “Yeah, all right,” Trump responded, then hung up. 

Then-President Donald Trump slice the dialogue brief when his overall health secretary, Alex Azar, warned him of the coronavirus in January 2020, according to a new e-book, “Nightmare Situation: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Transformed Background,” by The Washington Post’s Damian Paletta and Yasmeen Abutaleb.

The president was at his Mar-a-Lago vacation resort in Florida at the time, a excursion that took location approximately a thirty day period right after the Residence impeached him in excess of his attempts to solicit Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 election. The Senate was readying his trial. Trump aides believed the president required cheering

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