While even a perfect response could not have kept the virus from coming to America, it is now clear that the federal government’s bungling and President Trump’s inept decision making over the past 10 weeks has turned a large-scale public health crisis into an unprecedented health, economic and security disaster. The evidence now shows that — like the intelligence briefing delivered to President Bush on Aug. 6, 2001, entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Attack the United States — Trump was warned early and often about the dangers of COVID-19: by the NSC in early January and by trade advisor Peter Navarro on Jan. 29.