{"id":9649,"date":"2020-03-22T13:38:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T17:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=9649"},"modified":"2020-03-22T13:41:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T17:41:54","slug":"pompeo-admits-covid-19-is-a-live-exercise-trump-says-you-should-have-let-us-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=9649","title":{"rendered":"Pompeo admits COVID-19 is a \u201clive exercise&#8221;, Trump says: \u201cYou should have let us know.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admits COVID-19 is a \u201clive exercise,\u201d President Trump comments: \u201cI wish you would have told us\u201d<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><em>Can someone please explain exactly what is going on here?<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>By Shepard Ambellas<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.intellihub.com\/secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-admits-covid-19-is-a-live-exercise-president-trump-comments-i-wish-you-would-have-told-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">INTELLIHUB<\/a>) \u2014 United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had a slip of the tongue while addressing the American people from the White House when he stated that COVID-19 is a live military exercise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThis is not about retribution,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Pompeo explained.\u00a0<strong>\u201cThis matter is going forward \u2014 we are in a live exercise here to get this right.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> is mad that the deep state took control through Continuity of Government, there has been a coup? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GcrjNNvVsc\">https:\/\/t.co\/GcrjNNvVsc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Covid_19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Covid_19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CoronavirusPandemic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CoronavirusPandemic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MartialLaw?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MartialLaw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shepard Ambellas (@ShepardAmbellas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShepardAmbellas\/status\/1241372623172325379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With a disgusted look on his face, President Trump replied:\u00a0<strong>\u201cYou should have let us know.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Military Exercise meaning (from Wikipedia): \u201cA\u00a0<b>military exercise<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>war game<\/b>\u00a0is the employment of military resources in training for military operations, either exploring the effects of warfare or testing strategies without actual combat. This also serves the purpose of ensuring the combat readiness of garrisoned or deployable forces prior to deployment from a home base.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mike Pompeo calls Coronavirus pandemic an Exercise live on CNN\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Qscuw_3aUk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What is actually going on here? Does the White House care to explain?<\/p>\n<h6><strong>\u00a92020. INTELLIHUB.COM. All Rights Reserved.<\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admits COVID-19 is a \u201clive exercise,\u201d President Trump comments: \u201cI wish you would have told us\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}