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After getting rebuked by the National Center for Medical Intelligence on Wednesday for pumping out fake news that President Trump knew about the Wuhan Virus back in November, ABC was desperate to find a way to suggest Trump had blood on his hands. Over the weekend, a dubious New York Times report gave ABC the cover they needed to resurrect their bogus story.
Leading into the report on Sunday’s Good Morning America, co-anchor and actress Eva Pilgrim boasted of “the scathing new report on Trump administration's failure to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.” “The New York Times finding that the White House wasted vital time in the early days of the crisis that may have cost American lives,” she declared.
Reporter Rachel Scott began her report by repeatedly chiding the President’s comments about how the virus exploded unexpectedly:
RACHEL SCOTT: Eva, good morning. President Trump has said no one saw pandemic like this coming. But The New York Times reports his top advisers and health officials did and that they tried to warn him.
[Cuts to video]
Overnight, President Trump touted his administration's handling of the coronavirus crisis, calling his response "Swift."
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We did it the right way. We took care of social distancing and all of the things, words that no one heard before.
“But a new report from The New York Times claims the president repeatedly brushed off early warning signs from the intelligence community, top advisers, and health officials,” Scott touted. But as we’ll see, the accusations made by the liberal rag made no scene when faced with the facts.
The first piece of evidence of the President’s alleged inaction was a conversation he supposedly had with a top health official. “According to The Times, Health and Human Secretary Alex Azar sounded the alarm about the possibility of a pandemic on January 30th call with the President, but his concerns were dismissed,” she said.
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