Link , Link , Link , Link , [Trump must be held accountable, too. We now know that, even as COVID-19 spread unchecked to all 50 states, Trump was being briefed regularly on the threat. As The Washington Post reported this week: U.S. intelligence agencies were issuing ominous, classified warnings in January and February about the global danger posed by the coronavirus while President Trump and lawmakers played down the threat and failed to take action that might have slowed the spread of the pathogen… despite that constant flow of reporting, Trump continued publicly and privately to play down the threat the virus posed to Americans… At the State Department, personnel had been nervously tracking early reports about the virus… it was discussed at a meeting in the third week of January, around the time that cable traffic showed that U.S. diplomats in Wuhan were being brought home on chartered planes — a sign that the public health risk was significant… Inside the White House, Trump’s advisers struggled to get him to take the virus seriously As one U.S. official told the Post:]