Trump confirms again that he was warned in January and chose to ignore it

His desperate spin before his Fox News Town Hall today ignores the incompetence of handling travel from Europe among many other failures.

Trump did not “ban China”. His flight restrictions were weaker than other countries who acted sooner. And the spotty checks of returning US citizens and virtually no US covid-19 tests negated any positive benefit. https://t.co/BVONot2LU3
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) May 3, 2020

According to a ton of reporting, the president's claims here are a straight-up lie.

In fact, they defy logic, given what's out there publicly.

But he could clear all this up by declassifying all the PDBs in January as they relate to the outbreak in Wuhan. pic.twitter.com/TFc1mEW46m
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) May 3, 2020

How the Trump White House moved the coronavirus death toll goalposts to over 100,000 from 50,000, in one 40 second clip pic.twitter.com/js68n55bSW
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 3, 2020

Trump at Lincoln Memorial for Fox News Town Hall 7-9pm EDT

Trump tweets that he is missing his rallies- while over 67,000 Americans are missing loved ones killed by the coronavirus.

To Donald Trump the biggest victim of the coronavirus pandemic is Donald Trump.
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) May 3, 2020

A vitamins executive who socializes with Trump at Mar-a-Lago said Trump asked him to call California Gov. Newsom on his cell and try to make a deal for the state to buy millions of hydroxychloroquine tablets from an Indian manufacturer. California said no. https://t.co/LYbCK3FCDC
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 3, 2020

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