While we work to contain coronavirus, we have cause for greater alarm when it comes to our national security. Pres. Trump could have mitigated Covid-19's threat; We don't know what other threats he's failed to pay attention to. | sam_vinograd, CNNOpinion
Samantha Vinograd is a CNN national security analyst. She is a senior adviser at the University of Delaware's Biden Institute, which is not affiliated with the Biden campaign. Vinograd served on President Barack Obama's National Security Council from 2009 to 2013 and at the Treasury Department under President George W. Bush. Follow her @sam_vinograd. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion articles on CNN.
We can't pretend to get inside of President Donald Trump's head and to know his real motivations for downplaying the virus and failing to prepare or appropriately respond to it. But we do know that it wasn't for lack of intelligence briefings. Day after day, during his daily press"briefings," tweet storms and other public displays of disaffection, Americans hear Donald Trump's oft-epeated claims that the coronavirus "came out of nowhere"; that he acted quickly; and that "nobody could have predicted something like this."Sam VinogradWell, as much as Trump may want to try to deny or dance around it, streams of reporting indicate that experts did predict it, and they tried to tell him.
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