Here you go...
Feb. 29: The U.S. records its first death from the virus, and the Trump administration announces travel restrictions on Iran and urges U.S. citizens not to travel to impacted regions of Italy and South Korea. The administration also announced increased screening of individuals coming to the U.S. from those areas. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issues a new policy to allow for faster testing to detect cases of the coronavirus.
March 3: Trump donates his quarterly salary to HHS to support efforts to "confront, contain, and combat" the coronavirus.
March 6: Trump signs an $8.3 billion coronavirus package passed by Congress. Later, the president visits the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters, urging the public to remain calm and touting the country's testing capabilities.
March 7: It is learned that someone
attending the Conservative Political Action Conference, a confab of the right attended by Trump and many GOP lawmakers, tested positive for the coronavirus. Trump says he's not concerned at all about potential exposure, and the White House says there is no indication Trump or Pence was in contact with the person who tested positive. The CDC says it has
tested 1,583 people for the coronavirus, a figure that does not include those tested at commercial labs.
March 10: The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. surpasses 1,000.
March 11: The World Health Organization declares the coronavirus a global pandemic. The NBA says it is suspending its season after Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert becomes the first player to test positive.
Trump announces in a rare Oval Office address that he is restricting travel from most of Europe for 30 days, a prohibition that applies to non-U.S. citizens who have traveled recently in the Schengen Area. Trump also says he will use executive action to help small businesses and individuals adversely impacted by the virus. The White House cancels Trump's trip out west for the coming weekend and his campaign postpones an upcoming event in Milwaukee.
I hadn't read this before, so I haven't commented previously. But some of this is some major-league BS...
Yesterday during his briefing, Trump claimed that he ONLY found out about the seriousness of the thread at the same time he instituted the PARTIAL travel ban. FYI he banned travel from Europeans who had visited China, but did NOT ban US citizens. And he also did not medically screen ANYONE entering the US who was returning from China...
Now, of course, we know that Navarro was writing memos about the possible catastrophic consequences of the virus as far back as Nov. Trump also claimed yesterday that he didn't see the memos. But we KNOW the CDC and the Intelligence Services were briefing Congress at least as early as Jan 24. And we know that the briefing was scary enough that it inspired at least THREE GOP Senators to go out and sell $$ Millions of dollars worth of SPECIFIC stock holdings... Are you going to claim that GOP Senators knew, but Trump didn't?
Here's an item missing from your timeline...Joe Biden's op-ed in USA Today from Jan 27, at a time Trump was still downplaying the seriousness of the situation...
Biden on Jan 27...
"The possibility of a pandemic is a challenge Donald Trump is unqualified to handle as president. I remember how Trump sought to stoke fear and stigma during the 2014 Ebola epidemic. He called President Barack Obama a “
dope” and “
incompetent” and
railed against the evidence-based response our administration put in place — which quelled the crisis and saved hundreds of thousands of lives — in favor of
reactionary travel bans that would only have made things worse. He advocated abandoning exposed and infected American citizens rather than
bringing them home for treatment.
Trump’s demonstrated failures of judgment and his repeated rejection of science make him the worst possible person to lead our country through a global health challenge.
The outbreak of a new coronavirus, which has already
infected more than 2,700 people and killed over 80 in China, will get worse before it gets better. Cases have been confirmed in a dozen countries, with at least five in the United States. There will likely be more."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opin...us-less-prepared-joe-biden-column/4581710002/
Notice that while Trump claimed last month that he always knew it was a "pandemic" (despite specifically DENYING it for 3 mos)
Biden actually RECOGNIZED that it WAS a Pandemic, as early as Jan 27.
Here is another edition to your timeline, courtesy of a brand new ad from the Lincoln Project, headed up by long time Republicans George Conway and Rick Wilson who just endorsed Biden yesterday...
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/linc...peachment-covid-19-coronavirus-003740806.html
And one last point,about your ridiculous talking point of Trump giving up his "quarterly salary"...
The annual salary of the POTUS is around $750,000, so basically we're talking around $160,000. Not a small amount for me and you, but for a guy who has literally made MILLIONS off of profits his personal business has raked in over the past 3.5 yrs from Govt and GOP use of his properties- Are you kidding me?
Entities connected to either the GOP in General or Trump in particular have spent over $20,000,000 on services provided by Trump Org Properties/Businesses. By itself the Committee to Elect Donald J Trump has spent over $16,000,000 at properties owned by
Donald J Trump. Exactly what % of $16,000,000 do you think $160,000 or even $700,000 comprises?
https://www.opensecrets.org/trump/trump-properties