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GOP Senator Warned Audience Three Weeks Ago
March 19, 2020 at 9:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 91 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2020/03/19/gop-senator-warned-audience-three-weeks-ago/
"SNIP.....
NPR obtained a secret recording of Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) warning a private audience three weeks ago about how the coronavirus would have dire effects on the United States.
He said that the data he was shown indicated that the virus would be like the 1918 Spanish flu and warned the corporate attendees to stop travel to Europe and other places and take other precautions.
.......SNIP"
Under The Radar
(3,404 posts)One for the haves and one for the have-nots
Is there a quote from Burr to the press around the same time calling the virus a hoax?
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Dan Coats was shown the door.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)And that would most certainly include the Trump Family....
riversedge
(70,299 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,463 posts)and they sat on it so they are just as culpable as Burr.
I visualize they went back to their business and made plans and examined their spread-sheets, while they avoided their workers on the floor like the plague.
procon
(15,805 posts)about the corona virus being no worse than a bad cold. So these selfish bastards knew the facts and warned their BFFs to take precautions, but continued to con the public and lie them into complacency and a false sense of security in the belief that Trump knew what he was doing.
Republican lied and people died. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
SeattleVet
(5,479 posts)Sen Burr Dumped Up to $1.6 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213131528