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(PROOF OF CORRUPTION—CHAPTER 42). I'm trying something new today: publishing a book excerpt directly to Twitter. I hope you'll RETWEET this thread so everyone can read about Trump's offenses during the COVID-19 scandal. A preorder link is in my bio and at the end of the excerpt.
"Between January and August 2019, Trump's Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), headed by Alex Azar, runs a simulation—code-named Crimson Contagion—in which a 'respiratory virus [that] began in China is quickly spread around the world by air travelers with high fevers.'
A month later, White House economists working with the NSC produce a study 'that warns a pandemic disease could kill a half million Americans and devastate the U.S. economy.' The Crimson Contagion report and the economists' paper are follow-ups on the Pandemic Influenza Plan...
...developed and released by the White House in December 2017; by mid-April 2020, Politico will report Trump has 'failed' to abide by the plan, missing 'nearly all' of the pandemic-response goals established by the document."
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"Per the NYT, the 'sobering' Crimson Contagion data—which circulates in the Trump administration in October 2019—'drives home how underfunded, underprepared and uncoordinated the federal government would be for a life-or-death battle with a virus for which no treatment existed.'
Nevertheless, after the COVID-19 outbreak begins in the United States, President Trump will falsely declare that 'nobody knew there would be a pandemic or epidemic of this proportion' and 'nobody ever thought of numbers like this.'
In fact, writes the New York Times in March 2020, 'his own administration had already modeled a similar pandemic and understood its potential trajectory' and 'accurately predicted the very types of problems Mr. Trump is now scrambling belatedly to address.'
In addition to ignoring the lessons of the Crimson Contagion report and the work product of economists contracted by the White House, Trump also, per Politico, 'ignores' a sixty-nine-page 2016 National Security Council document...
...entitled 'Playbook for High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents,' that 'provides a step by step list of priorities' in a pandemic."
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[This chapter has hundreds of endnotes—most sentences have one. I've elided them here.]
"The White House's disconnect from the NSC throughout the COVID-19 outbreak is partially attributable to Trump. In April 2018 the president had fired homeland security adviser Tom Bossert, who according to the Washington Post 'had called for a comprehensive biodefense strategy...
...against pandemics'; weeks later, the administration 'eliminated' the job of Trump’s global health security team director, Rear Admiral Timothy Ziemer, and disbanded Ziemer's entire team."
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"On November 16, 2019, in the U.S.—November 17 in China—a fifty-five-year-old resident of China's Hubei province is put 'under medical surveillance' for an unexplained ailment, according to The Guardian. The British media outlet reports that...
"On November 16, 2019, in the U.S.—November 17 in China—a fifty-five-year-old resident of China's Hubei province is put 'under medical surveillance' for an unexplained ailment, according to The Guardian. The British media outlet reports that...
...according to nonpublic medical surveillance data held by the Chinese government, this man 'could have been the first person to contract COVID-19.' The virus is believed to have originated in the Huanan 'wet market,' a wildlife emporium in the city of Wuhan...
...that sells—among other exotic species—'foxes, wolf cubs, civets, turtles, and snakes.'
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"Per The Guardian, while Beijing will report to the World Health Organization (WHO) that its 'first confirmed [COVID-19] case . . . [was] diagnosed on December 8'...
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"Per The Guardian, while Beijing will report to the World Health Organization (WHO) that its 'first confirmed [COVID-19] case . . . [was] diagnosed on December 8'...
...there is evidence to suggest U.S. intelligence was aware of the approximately two dozen cases of the novel coronavirus recorded in Hubei province in November 2019—including that of the man in Hubei who may or may not have become the pandemic's 'patient zero' on November 16/17.
The South China Morning Post reports that while 'interviews with whistle-blowers from the Chinese medical community suggest doctors only realized they were dealing with a new disease in late December 2019,' it is 'possible that there were reported [COVID-19] cases dating back...
...even earlier than [November 17].' This possibility appears to be confirmed by a Business Insider report on 'a research paper from infectious-disease researchers in China' that finds 'a surprising trend on the Chinese social-media platform WeChat: Usage of keywords related...
...to the new coronavirus spiked more than two weeks before officials confirmed the first cases...including in posts and searches on WeChat...beginning on November 17.' That a 'spike' in such searches comes in mid-November 2019 suggests that WeChat search logs including terms...
...relating to a new illness may have begun appearing on Chinese social media at the beginning of November or even earlier.
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It will be discovered in spring 2020 that a woman in San Jose, California, who became 'unusually sick' in late January and died...
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It will be discovered in spring 2020 that a woman in San Jose, California, who became 'unusually sick' in late January and died...
...on February 6, had COVID-19 but no recent travel history linking her to China; this further suggests that the initial outbreak of the virus in China may have been earlier than the December timeframe memorialized in Beijing's official report to the WHO.
Dr. Jeffrey V. Smith, a Santa Clara, California, county executive and medical doctor, will tell the New York Times that Patricia Dowd's death from COVID-19 on February 6 means the novel coronavirus 'was probably around [in California] unrecognized for quite some time.'
Santa Clara County's public health officer, Sara Cody, adds, per Politico, that 'we had community transmission probably to a significant degree far earlier than we had known.'
[Note: the 5,000 major-media citations found throughout Proof of Corruption will be published online.]
[Note: the 5,000 major-media citations found throughout Proof of Corruption will be published online.]
These reassessments of the pandemic timeline are bolstered by the May 2020 discovery in France of a COVID-19 patient without a reported history of travel to China who was admitted for emergency care on December 27, 2019. Even more startling is a mid-May report by NBC News...
...detailing X-rays of two French patients with 'symptoms consistent with the novel coronavirus' taken on November 16 and November 18, 2019—a bombshell discovery that NBC says 'if confirmed...is evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was spreading in Europe...well before COVID-19...
...the disease caused by the coronavirus, had been officially identified in China.' According to CNN, a peer-reviewed British study conducted at University College London also 'found genetic evidence that supports suspicions the virus was infecting people...
...in Europe, the U.S. and elsewhere weeks or even months before the first official cases were reported in January and February 2020'; consistent with this analysis, in May 2020 the Associated Press finds that medical data from Seattle places the virus stateside in December 2019.
Yet even these startling findings are eclipsed by a June 2020 bombshell report from ABC News, which reveals that, per satellite imagery analyzed as part of a Harvard Medical School study, so many cars were outside five major Wuhan hospitals in late September and October 2019...
...that it 'suggests the novel coronavirus may have been present and spreading through central China long before the outbreak was first reported to the world.'"
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"In November 2019, 18 months after Trump disbands Ziemer's pandemic-response team, 'U.S. spy agencies...begin tracking the rise of a novel coronavirus,' according to CNN. The intelligence gathered provides 'multiple early warnings about the potential severity' of the eventual...
...COVID-19 pandemic. The Times of Israel will confirm the CNN report, revealing that 'the U.S. intelligence community became aware of the emerging disease in Wuhan in the second week of [November 2019]' and immediately 'drew up a classified document' on the potential threat...
...a fact the outlet learned on the basis of the document having been shared by at least one US intelligence agency with NATO and the IDF after the Trump White House indicated, per the Times of Israel, that for unexplained reasons it was 'not interested' in the information. (
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The Times further reports that, Beijing's since-uncovered nonpublic medical surveillance information on a November 17 presumed coronavirus case notwithstanding, government documentation 'on the disease outbreak was not in the public domain between November 8 and November 14...
...and such information was known only apparently to the Chinese government' and to U.S. intelligence agencies. While the Times confirms that 'U.S. intelligence informed the Trump administration' of its discovery, the date of this November 2019 intel transmission remains unknown.
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What is known, according to ABC News, is that by 'late November' a National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) report had warned the White House that 'a contagion was sweeping through China's Wuhan region, changing the patterns of life and business...
What is known, according to ABC News, is that by 'late November' a National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) report had warned the White House that 'a contagion was sweeping through China's Wuhan region, changing the patterns of life and business...
...and posing a threat to the population,' with the NCMI concluding that the contagion 'could be a cataclysmic event.' ABC adds that the report was 'briefed multiple times' in November to 'the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon's Joint Staff and the White House.' ()
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All told, the picture offered by CNN, Business Insider, SCMP, the Times of Israel and ABC News is of US military intelligence repeatedly passing urgent warnings to the Trump White House between November 9 and the end of November about a virus causing cold- or flu-like symptoms...
...that may have been present in China beginning in September 2019.
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On November 16, 2019, as President Trump is exhibiting cold-like symptoms, he is unexpectedly rushed to a US military hospital, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. ()
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On November 16, 2019, as President Trump is exhibiting cold-like symptoms, he is unexpectedly rushed to a US military hospital, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. (
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Hours after the unscheduled visit, during which Trump's blood is drawn and tested for unknown reasons, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham tells media that the president had decided to complete the first portion of his annual physical exam after the sudden discovery...
...that he had a 'free weekend' to do so. Within 48 hours, however, Grisham's claim has been contradicted not only by Grisham herself—who comes to categorize the visit as a 'checkup,' per CNN, making 'no mention of it being part of Trump's "annual physical"'—but also by...
...one of Trump's doctors, Sean Conley, who calls the visit a 'routine, planned interim checkup as part of the regular, primary preventative care the president receives throughout the year.' The next day, November 19, Trump reverts to Grisham's first categorization of his trip...
