And so it goes, in this exhausting Age of Trump

Another day, another report of Trump's incompetence, critical indifference, and criminally negligent unfitness for office:

U.S. intelligence agencies issued warnings about the novel coronavirus in more than a dozen classified briefings prepared for President Trump in January and February, months during which he continued to play down the threat….

The repeated warnings were conveyed in issues of the President’s Daily Brief, a sensitive report … designed to call the president’s attention to the most significant global developments and security threats….

The alarms appear to have failed to register with the president, who routinely skips reading the PDB and has at times shown little patience for even the oral summary he takes two or three times per week….

U.S. officials said it reflected a level of attention comparable to periods when analysts have been tracking active terrorism threats, overseas conflicts or other rapidly developing security issues.

Should House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff wish to see the PDBs … well, good luck. Senate Republicans have enshrined Trump's right to withhold any presidentially damaging information from both Congress and the voting public, since they, too, are criminally unfit for office.

Comments

[Anne J]

Too bad that's not a picture of him laid out in a casket.

[Peter G]

Future presidential historians are going to have a hell of a dirty job excavating this midden.