Thread by @SethAbramson, (THREAD) This thread contains the RED DAWN EMAILS, just published by @nytimes. [...]

(THREAD) This thread contains the RED DAWN EMAILS, just published by @nytimes. If you're unable to take the time to read the whole backstory at the Times, you can read the frantic exchanges between medical experts here. For the full article, see this link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-red-dawn-emails-trump.html

The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus

Experts inside and outside the government identified the threat early on and sought to raise alarms even as President Trump was moving slowly. Read some of what they had to say among themselves at...

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

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EMAIL #3 ("NPIs" = nonpharmaceutical interventions, like physical distancing):

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EMAIL #7 (Tom Bossert is Trump's former homeland security adviser):

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PS/ Keep in mind, the whole time this exchange was happening Trump was receiving warnings of precisely this urgency, then coming out to the cameras and lying through his teeth to the American people about the COVID-19 threat because he believed it would hurt his re-election odds.

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