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BREAKING U.S. intelligence agencies issued warnings about the novel coronavirus in more than a dozen classified briefings prepared for President Trump in January and February, even as he continued to downplay the threat of the virus.https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/presidents-intelligence-briefing-book-repeatedly-cited-virus-threat/2020/04/27/ca66949a-8885-11ea-ac8a-fe9b8088e101_story.html …

"The repeated warnings were conveyed in issues of the President’s Daily Brief … [Trump] routinely skips reading the PDB and has at times shown little patience even for the oral summary he now takes two or three times per week”https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/presidents-intelligence-briefing-book-repeatedly-cited-virus-threat/2020/04/27/ca66949a-8885-11ea-ac8a-fe9b8088e101_story.html …

NBC News confirms WaPo reporting that the President's Daily Brief included more than a dozen mentions in January and February of US intelligence about the coronavirus in China, as well as Beijing's attempts to cover it up and suppress information about it.https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-asks-intelligence-agencies-find-out-whether-china-who-n1194451 …

"Mr. Trump twice declined suggestions from his team in January to press Mr. Xi for more transparency about the virus’s causes and symptoms, in one case saying that the criticism could cause Beijing to be less helpful, said White House officials.”https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-casts-deep-chill-over-u-s-china-relations-11588781420 …

NYT - The CIA analyst who briefed Trump on Jan. 23 about the coronavirus compared it to SARS. "By February, the intelligence agency warnings were more in line with the increasingly dire predictions of NSC staff and the public health officials.”https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/us/politics/presidents-daily-brief-trump.html?referringSource=articleShare …