Thread by @maggieNYT, On Jan. 30, Azar spoke w POTUS, who was on AF1, by [...]

Maggie Haberman

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On Jan. 30, Azar spoke w POTUS, who was on AF1, by phone. Azar warned of a pandemic and wanted to criticize China. POTUS told him to stop panicking, said China had enough to deal with w/o the public critique. The China flight pull down came the next day https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-response.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/1...

He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus

An examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-response.html

Azar - already on thin ice with the president over the vaping ban - saw his authority diminish in part after the task force he led oversaw a widespread testing failure https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-response.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/1...

He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus

An examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-response.html

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