Friday, August 21, 2020

Trump the Sexual Predator

 A.

First, a reminder of who Trump really is:


B. 

Trump and Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

2002 Quote: “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”







Donny had a good place to supply underage girls to Epstein:

Unsealed documents detail alleged Epstein victim’s recruitment at Mar-a-Lago


A trove of court documents unsealed Friday detail allegations by an alleged victim of wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein that while working as a teenage locker room attendant at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort nearly two decades ago she was recruited to give Epstein massages that often involved sexual activity.

The roughly 2,000 pages of records released by the Manhattan-based 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals also show the same woman, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, appears to have claimed she had sex with a series of prominent men — including former politicians — at Epstein’s direction while working as a staff masseuse for the investment adviser, who eventually came under investigation in 2006 for sex trafficking over his involvement with teenage girls.

Of course, Jeff and Donny had their own private good times:


She dropped the case because Trump goons were threatening her life.

In 2008 Epstein was on trial in Florida for sex crimes. He got a slap-on-the-wrist deal from Federal prosecutor Alex Acosta. Trump later named Acosta Secretary of Labor. What a coincidence, huh?



From Wikipedia: 

Donald Barr was headmaster of the Dalton School from 1964 to 1974.[10] During his time as Dalton's headmaster, Barr is alleged to have had a role in hiring Jeffrey Epstein as a math teacher despite the fact that Epstein had dropped out of college and was only 21 years old at the time.[11][12] In 1973, Donald Barr published Space Relations, a science-fiction novel about a planet ruled by oligarchs who perform child sex slavery. It has been noted that the plot of the novel reflects the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein.[13]

Donald Barr was Attorney General William Barr's FATHER. You know, the same Attorney General who was in charge of the prison in which Epstein is alleged to have killed himself.

Epstein kept a "little black book" in which about 1,000 people he knew or wanted to know are listed. Guess who figures prominently in it? From Snopes:

Was Trump listed in Epstein’s black book?

In short: Yes. Trump’s name appears in Epstein’s book, along with several phone numbers and email addresses. Ivana, Ivanka, Robert, and Blaine Trump are also mentioned in the book. The contact information for Donald Trump was also circled.

A screenshot of Trump’s redacted contact information can be seen below and also on page 80 of the digital copy.


Alan Dershowitz has a rather "colorful" history with Epstein, detailed here:(https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/7/30/20746983/alan-dershowitz-jeffrey-epstein-sarah-ransome-giuffre)

Alan Dershowitz helped sex offender Jeffrey Epstein get a plea deal. Now he’s tweeting about age of consent laws.

When Jeffrey Epstein found out in 2005 that he was being investigated by police for the sexual abuse of underage girls, he called Alan Dershowitz.

A Harvard Law School professor and high-profile defense lawyer, Dershowitz helped negotiate a “non-prosecution agreement” under which Epstein served just 13 months in a county jail, much of it spent on “work release” in an office. Ever since details of that agreement were reported by Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald, Dershowitz and his role in the deal have been under added scrutiny.

And guess who was one of Trump's defense lawyers during the impeachment? Alan Dershowitz, of course.


Ghislaine Maxwell was Epstein's pimp. She also may have engaged in pedophilia herself. She and Trump go way back. Check this out, here: 

Here’s Every Time Donald Trump And Ghislaine Maxwell Have Been Photographed Together


And when Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested, here's what Trump said in regard to this monster who ruined so many lives:

“I’ve met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach,” Trump told reporters Tuesday. “I just wish her well, frankly.”


C. 

Trump and His Daughter Ivanka: A Disturbing Relationship

Trump and his daughter Ivanka have an unusually close physical relationship.







A relationship made all the more disturbing by incidents like this:





Trump and Howard Stern discuss Ivanka:

In an October 2006 interview, Stern remarks that Ivanka "looks more voluptuous than ever," and asked if she had gotten breast implants. Trump is willing to engage in the discussion about his own daughter, telling Stern that she did not get implants.
"She's actually always been very voluptuous," Trump responds. "She's tall, she's almost 6 feet tall and she's been, she's an amazing beauty."

In another interview, from September 2004, Stern asks Trump if he can call Ivanka "a piece of ass," to which Trump responds in the affirmative.
"My daughter is beautiful, Ivanka," says Trump.
"By the way, your daughter," says Stern.
"She's beautiful," responds Trump.
"Can I say this? A piece of ass," Stern responds.
"Yeah," says Trump. [Emphasis added.]


Reported by Washington Post writer Stephen Cohen:



This will give you more details, if you can stomach it:


D. Trump the Sex Trafficker, Sex Pervert, Sex Predator

Inside Donald Trump’s One-Stop Parties: Attendees Recall Cocaine and Very Young Models

It’s not a time that Trump, who once blew up gossip reporters’ phones to dish on his own sexual exploits, real and imagined, is eager to remember now. But after I wrote for The Daily Beast earlier this year about the parties he hosted in the 1990s where “his wealthy friends, high-rollers from his Atlantic City casinos, and potential Trump condominium buyers could meet models” from second-tier agencies, several men who attended those parties at the Plaza Hotel emerged to share scandalous specifics about Trump’s presence and behavior at events where illegal drugs and young women were passed around and used.

(https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-donald-trumps-one-stop-parties-attendees-recall-cocaine-and-very-young-models?source=twitter&via=desktop)


Here's information about Trump's good buddy John Casablancas, who ran a modeling agency and sex trafficking operation. (It's hard to read, emotionally.)

Meet John Casablancas, founder of Elite Model Management, prolific child rapist, and trafficker. He was Ivanka Trump's manager, was a close associate of U.S. President Trump, and sat on the board of Trump Realty Brazil. 



Trump started a modeling agency, Trump Model Management, in 1999 cloned after #Casablanca's own Elite Model Management. 

And about Trump Model Management, see this:

2 models who worked for Trump's controversial agency tell what it was like for them


  • Business Insider interviewed two former Trump models who spoke about their experiences working with the agency. They talked about business practices that included lying about their professions to customs agents. One of the two models said she was left in debt to the agency.
  • Referring to the industry as a whole, one of the models told Business Insider: "There's quite a bit of exploitation of young girls going to America illegally and being overcharged for apartments and making very little money."

Or try this:

Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year



Excerpt:

Three decades on, a very different picture of the competition is beginning to emerge. Over the last six months, the Guardian has spoken to several dozen former Look of the Year contestants, as well as industry insiders, and obtained 12 hours of previously unseen, behind-the-scenes footage. The stories we have heard suggest that Casablancas, and some of the men in his orbit, used the contest to engage in sexual relationships with vulnerable young models. Some of these allegations amount to sexual harassment, abuse or exploitation of teenage girls; others are more accurately described as rape.

A startling number of women have lodged complaints of sexual assault against Donald Trump. In December 2017 Business Insider presented what was considered at the time to be a comprehensive list.

Jessica Leeds

Ivana Trump

Kristin Anderson

Jill Harth

Lisa Boyne

Mariah Billado and Victoria Hughes

Two Miss Teen USA contestants told BuzzFeed News in October 2016 that Trump walked in on them while they were changing in their dressing rooms.

"I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, 'Oh my god, there's a man in here,'" Mariah Billado, who represented Vermont in 1997, told BuzzFeed. Billado added that Trump said something along the lines of, "Don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before."

Temple Taggart

Cathy Heller

Karena Virginia

Tasha Dixon and Bridget Sullivan

Allegations:

Two Miss USA contestants said Trump walked into their dressing rooms, where female participants were changing, and ogled them.

Tasha Dixon, a former Miss Arizona who competed in the 2001 Miss USA pageant, told CBS in October 2016 that Trump walked into the contestants' dressing room while they were changing.

"He just came strolling right in," Dixon said. "There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless, other girls were naked."

She added, "To have the owner come waltzing in when we're naked or half naked in a very physically vulnerable position, and then to have the pressure of the people that work for him telling us to go fawn all over him, go walk up to him, talk to him."

Dixon said there was "no one to complain to" because Trump owned the pageant and everyone employed there reported to him.

Melinda McGillivray

Natasha Stoynoff

Jennifer Murphy and Juliet Huddy

Rachel Crooks

Samantha Holvey

Allegations:

Samantha Holvey, a contestant in the 2006 Miss USA pageant, which Trump owned, told CNN in October 2016 that Trump personally inspected each of the pageant contestants individually.

"He would step in front of each girl and look you over from head to toe like we were just meat, we were just sexual objects, that we were not people," Holvey said, adding that it made her feel "the dirtiest I felt in my entire life."

Ninni Laaksonen

Jessica Drake

Summer Zervos

Allegations:

Summer Zervos, a former contestant on NBC's "The Apprentice," told reporters at an October 2016 press conference that Trump assaulted her during a 2007 meeting at The Beverly Hills Hotel.

"He then grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me again very aggressively and placed his hand on my breast," she said. "I pulled back and walked to another part of the room. He then walked up, grabbed my hand, and pulled me into the bedroom. I walked out." Zervos added that Trump thrust himself on her before she left the room.

Zervos sued Trump for defamation after he accused her of lying about the allegations. Trump's attorneys have moved to dismiss the case, arguing that, as president, he can't be sued in state court and that his remarks about his accusers are political speech. The suit is ongoing.

Cassandra Searles

Allegations:

Cassandra Searles, who represented the state of Washington at the 2013 Miss USA pageant, wrote in a June 2016 Facebook post that Trump treated herself and other female Miss USA contestants "like cattle" and had them "lined up so he could get a closer look at his property."

"He probably doesn't want me telling the story about that time he continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room," she added.

Alva Johnson

E. Jean Carroll

Allegations:

Former Elle advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in a department store dressing room the mid-1990s.

"The moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips," Carroll wrote in an excerpt of her 2019 book, "What Do We Need Men For?". 

She went on, "The next moment, still wearing correct business attire, shirt, tie, suit jacket, overcoat, he opens the overcoat, unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I'm not certain — inside me. It turns into a colossal struggle."

NOTE: Trump is fighting Carroll's attempt to obtain a DNA sample from him.

Karen Johnson

Oh, and look at this:

Trump administration cuts legal funding for victims of human trafficking


(https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2019/08/02/trump-administration-cuts-funding-victims-human-trafficking/)

Quote from Sarah Kendzior:

"Donald Trump is friends with at least five pedophiles, most of whom were involved in sex trafficking or blackmail schemes. There's [Jeffrey] Epstein, [John] Casablancas, [Tevfik] Arif, [George] Nader, [Roy] Cohn. Who the hell is friends with five pedophiles?!"


For more ghastly details on Trump's drug use, his reputation for abusing prostitutes, the rapes, and other disgusting things, see Noel Casler's very brave Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/CaslerNoel

E. And last, but not least:




Donny and Stormy!! You remember Stormy Daniels, don't you? The porn star that Trump banged a year after his third wife gave birth to his fifth child. Donny then paid her for her silence. Trump gave money to Michael Cohen to pay her off, in total about $130,000.

Yes, Donald Trump: upholder of traditional values





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Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Trump and the Wall

A. 

Trump promised Mexico would pay for his ridiculous "border wall"


IT DID NOT DO SO, HAS NOT DONE SO, AND WILL NOT DO SO


From Politifact ( https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1397/build-wall-and-make-mexico-pay-it/)

Donald Trump promised to build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it. That didn’t happen

And no, Mexico is NOT paying for it through trade deals. 

From The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/08/president-trumps-desperate-nonsensical-claim-that-mexico-is-paying-wall/)


President Trump’s nonsensical claim that Mexico is paying for the wall

Excerpt:

Trump promised that Mexico would pay for his plan to build a wall along the southern border. But he did not make this promise just once or even two dozen times. From his announcement speech to the election, he declared 212 times that Mexico would pay for the wall, according to the comprehensive record of Trump’s speeches, interviews and tweets maintained by Factba.se. That works out to almost every two days during the campaign.

Mexico refuses to pay for the wall, and Trump has engineered a government shutdown to try to force Congress to appropriate the necessary funds. Yet he insists that Mexico is paying for the wall because of a reworking of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that his administration negotiated — though it is not yet ratified by Congress.

B. 

Very Few New Barriers Have Been Added

From the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-06-23/trump-campaigns-on-border-wall-progress-theres-not-much-of-it)

Trump campaigns on border wall progress. There’s not much of it

(Excerpt)
President Trump, whose plans to campaign on a booming economy were ruined by the coronavirus, traveled Tuesday to the southern edge of Arizona to highlight completion of “more than 200 miles of powerful border wall” with Mexico.

He didn’t mention the fine print.

Nearly all 216 miles built since Trump took office replaced outdated or dilapidated fencing. Only about “three miles of new border wall system [have been] constructed in locations where no barriers previously existed,” according to Homeland Security’s June 19 status report on the wall.

Trump repeatedly pledged during and after his 2016 campaign that he’d make Mexico pay for “a big beautiful wall” on the entire 1,954-mile border. So far, the Trump administration has spent $15 billion on the project. Mexico has not contributed anything.

C. 

Trump Shut Down the Government for 35 days, the U.S. RECORD, in order to get Congress to give him his Wall funding.


. 
The shutdown did economic damage to the United States. 


This statistic illustrates the estimated effect on the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from Q4 2018 to Q3 2019 due to the partial government shutdown in the United States, which took place from December 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019. During the first quarter of 2019, it is estimated that the real GDP of the U.S. will be reduced by 0.2 percent due to the government shutdown.



The government shutdown cost the economy $11 billion, 

including a permanent $3 billion loss, 

Congressional Budget Office says


D. 

Trump Stole Money from the Military to Build His Wall


Excerpt

Last year, the Pentagon diverted $6 billion of its budget to build barriers in California, Arizona and New Mexico. As of Jan. 13, according to Army Corps of Engineers figures, about $3 billion of that has been awarded for contracts to build 200 miles of barriers.

“I can’t give you any information on any future budget decisions," Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman told reporters Thursday, in response to reports of internal White House documents showing a plan to siphon another $7.2 billion from DoD accounts this year. "I’m not privy to what those decisions have been at this point.”

While $3.5 billion of that would come from counter-drug operations, the Washington Post reported, another $3.7 would come from military construction accounts.

That’s $200 million more than what the administration set aside last year, which affected more than 100 projects, from training facilities and on-base schools to Hurricane Maria relief for the Puerto Rico National Guard.

E. 

Trump Has Given Contracts for the Wall to His Cronies, and the Wall Will Be Insanely Expensive

A major contract was given to a big Republican donor, the head of Fisher Industries. From The Atlantic (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/trump-border-wall-contractor/590242/):


Fisher is a curious choice. The company is already suing the government after being rejected for any Army Corps contract for the border wall. Fisher was one of the companies that participated in a prototype exercise outside San Diego in 2017, but the company’s wall didn’t meet the specifications laid out by the Department of Homeland Security, which wanted a wall that agents could see through. Instead, Fisher pushed a more expensive, concrete wall, similar to the one that Trump promised during the 2016 presidential campaign. But the Fisher prototype was late and over budget. The CEO, Tommy Fisher, criticized the steel-bollard design that the government chose. Now Fisher is promising a steel wall, and it says it can build one cheaper and faster than any other contractor.

Fisher Industries has some assets, though. Tommy Fisher is a major GOP donor. He has North Dakota’s Republican Senator Kevin Cramer in his corner. He’s already working on a private-sector attempt to build a barrier on private land in New Mexico, which is backed by close Trump allies such as Steve Bannon, the former White House strategist; Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos; and Kris Kobach, the former vice chair of Trump’s voter-fraud commission, who was under consideration as his “immigration czar.”


From Mother Jones (https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/trump-border-wall-cost-fisher-gravel-boondoggle/)

“We need the wall more than ever!” President Trump tweeted on March 10—one day before the WHO declared the coronavirus a global pandemic—just another of his more than 400 tweets about his dream of building a wall along the US-Mexico border. According to a Mother Jones analy­sis of government contracts, the Trump administration has so far doled out over $9 billion to build about 585 miles of wall—285 miles of replacement fencing and 300 miles of new construction. In Trumpian fashion, the project has been characterized by cost overruns, lawsuits, sycophantic contractors, and a notoriously ineffective (and incomplete) final product.

The rising cost of a border boondoggle 

Besides falsely claiming Mexico will foot the bill, Trump has consistently lowballed the price of his wall.


F. 

Much of the "Wall" is flimsy and weak.


Sad.

G.

Trump is Trying to Grab Private Property in Texas

From MarketWatch (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-justice-department-sues-to-seize-private-property-for-border-wall-construction-2019-12-27)

Trump Justice Department sues to seize private property for border-wall construction



Three years into Donald Trump’s presidency, the U.S. government is ramping up its efforts to seize private land in Texas to build a border wall.

Trump’s signature campaign promise has consistently faced political, legal, and environmental obstacles in Texas, which has the largest section of the U.S.-Mexico border, most of it without fencing. And much of the land along the Rio Grande, the river that forms the border in Texas, is privately held and environmentally sensitive.

Almost no land has been taken so far. But Department of Justice lawyers have filed three lawsuits this month seeking to take property from landowners. On Tuesday, lawyers moved to seize land in one case immediately before a scheduled court hearing in February.

G. 

And finally, there's this:

Steve Bannon charged with defrauding donors in private effort to raise money for Trump’s border wall








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Monday, August 17, 2020

Trump and China

INTRODUCTION: Donald J. Trump, 2015--

"I love China. The biggest bank in the world is from China. You know where their U.S. headquarters is located? In this building, in Trump Tower. I love China."


A.


Ivanka Trump Wins China Trademarks, Then Her Father Vows to Save ZTE

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/28/business/ivanka-trump-china-trademarks.html


B.

From Scott Dworkin:

Here’s video I found of Eric Trump saying “I’ve been to China many times—I love China—A lot of plans for China. We have an amazing buyer base from China that has apartments in our buildings—use our hotels—are members of our golf clubs.” Oh ok makes sense.

https://twitter.com/funder/status/1252195797808156672


C.


D.

Donald Trump’s Debt to China


https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/donald-trumps-debt-to-china

EXCERPT:

With criticisms of Trump’s handling of the pandemic growing and new opinion polls showing him trailing Biden in several key battleground states, we are sure to see more of these diversions. But adopting a China campaign strategy would also present a number of problems for Trump, beginning with the fact that Hunter Biden’s investment partnership isn’t the only American business that received funding from Chinese entities. In 2012, the Bank of China, a commercial bank owned by the Chinese state, provided more than two hundred million dollars in loans to a New York office building that Trump co-owns, Politico reported on Friday. The loans will come due in 2022, “in the middle of what could be Trump’s second term,” the timely article noted.

The building in question is 1290 Avenue of the Americas, which is located between West Fifty-first and West Fifty-second Streets. The majority owner of the building is Vornado Realty Trust, a big real-estate company that is run by the veteran developer Steven Roth. In 2007, the Trump Organization acquired a thirty-per-cent stake in the Sixth Avenue building and also in separate Vornado development, in San Francisco. By all appearances, the Vornado stake has been one of Trump’s most successful investments, and the Bank of China played a significant role in its success. “The debt stems from a $950 million refinancing deal in 2012, to which the Bank of China chipped in $211 million,” the Politico article said. “Vornado’s federal financial disclosures show it and the other owner of 1290 Avenue of the Americas—Trump—are still indebted from the 2012 deal.”


E.

Trump-owned properties in the US have imported more than 8 tons of Chinese goods since September


EXCERPT:

President Donald Trump's US properties imported more than eight tons of Chinese goods since September, according to a CNN analysis. 

More than six tons of tables were shipped to Trump International Hotel in New York last fall and two tons of cabinets were delivered to Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles in May, CNN reported.


F. 

The Chinese government has been gaining access to Trump through businesses that deal in prostitution and human trafficking. 

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article227186429.html


G.

Trump’s watchdog for COVID-19 stimulus cash

allowed millions to go to China-backed businesses


President Donald Trump tried to wage war against former Vice President Joe Biden for being too close to China, but it was revealed Sunday that the Trump administration’s appointees allowed supplemental money from the Paycheck Protection Program to be given to China-backed businesses in the United States.

The New York Times cited a study from Horizon Advisory on the publicly available data, “$192 million to $419 million has gone to more than 125 companies that Chinese entities own or invest in. Many of the loans were quite sizable; at least 32 Chinese companies received loans worth more than $1 million, with those totaling as much as $180 million.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/trumps-watchdog-for-19-stimulus-cash-sent-millions-to-china-backed-businesses/



H. 

From Open Secrets 


EXCERPT:

As Trump’s term continued, it became evident that Ivanka Trump would also benefit from China’s apparent attempts to tempt the Trump administration. On April 6, 2017, the same night Ivanka Trump dined with Jinping at Mar-A-Lago, the Chinese government granted her approval for three new trademarks to sell products related to jewelry, bags and spa services.

Along with trade, Chinese telecoms ZTE and Huawei emerged as major focal points in the foreign policy battle between the U.S. and China. U.S. officials consider both companies to be controlled by the Chinese government and thus a potential national security threat. The Trump administration in April 2018 banned American firms from selling parts to ZTE for seven years, dealing a crippling blow to the Chinese firm.

That ban didn’t last long. In what was considered a quid-pro-quo by some and a coincidence by others, Trump in May 2018 tweeted he would to find a way to save ZTE shortly after China approved seven new trademarks for Ivanka Trump’s various business measures. The deal also came shortly after reports that a state-owned Chinese company would provide $500 million for a Trump-licensed project in Indonesia.

Trump delivered on his promise, striking a deal with ZTE last June to lift crippling sanctions in exchange for a $1 billion fine and a restructuring of the company’s leadership. The decision was widely panned by Trump’s advisers and Republican allies in Congress. The Senate swiftly voted to block the deal, arguing that ZTE is a national security threat, but both chambers of Congress later agreed to drop an effort to derail the deal. Trump followed up in July 2018 by lifting the ban on ZTE just three months after it was enforced.



I. 

Bolton says Trump didn’t just ignore human rights but encouraged China’s concentration camps




J. 

Trump praised China's COVID-19 response repeatedly.


JANUARY 24, 2020

Trump Tweet:

“China has been working very hard to contain the coronavirus. The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. It will all work out well. In particular, on behalf of the American people, I want to thank President Xi!”

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/24/trump-thanks-chinas-xi-jinping-for-handling-of-coronavirus.html

JANUARY 30, 2020

The first case of person-to-person transmission in the US was reported.

The health and human services secretary, Alex M. Azar II, directly warned Mr. Trump of the possibility of a pandemic during a call on Jan. 30, the second warning he delivered to the president about the virus in two weeks. Azar warned Trump that the virus could become a pandemic and that China should be criticized for its lack of transparency, per the Times. The president, who was on Air Force One while traveling for appearances in the Midwest, responded that Mr. Azar was being alarmist. Trump dismissed Azar as alarmist and rejected the idea of criticizing China. 

The World Health Organization declares an international health emergency.

Trump, during a speech in Michigan, said: “We have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five. And those people are all recuperating successfully.”

 “We think we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five — and those people are all recuperating successfully. But we’re working very closely with China and other countries, and we think it’s going to have a very good ending for us … that I can assure you.” — Trump in a speech in Michigan.

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Trump goes on Sean Hannity’s show and claims: “We pretty much shut it down, coming in from China.” Trump extols our “tremendous relationship” with China, and adds: “We did shut it down, yes.”

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

A study was published in the medical journal JAMA, which found that found that 41% of the first 138 patients diagnosed at one hospital in Wuhan, China, were presumed to be infected in that hospital. The study's results indicated that the virus was very infectious. Some researchers were warning of the contagious nature of the virus earlier in February as well.

In a series of tweets on February 7, Trump again praised the Chinese President's handling of the crisis.

"Just had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi of China. He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus. He feels they are doing very well, even building hospitals in a matter of only days. Nothing is easy, but he will be successful, especially as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker, and then gone. Great discipline is taking place in China, as President Xi strongly leads what will be a very successful operation. We are working closely with China to help!"

"I just spoke to President Xi last night, and, you know, we're working on the -- the problem, the virus. It's a -- it's a very tough situation. But I think he's going to handle it. I think he's handled it really well. We're helping wherever we can."

The Trump administration sends 18 tons of medical supplies to China.














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