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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBTRTN: Call It By Its Rightful Name... Donald Trump's American Genocide
Born To Run The Numbers believes that it is time to start calling Trump's actions for what they have been... intentionally putting a vast number of American lives at risk of sickness and death, all for political gain.
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2020/06/btrtn-call-it-by-its-rightful-name.html
Excerpts: "Columbia University recently released a study that held that 54,000 of the deaths from the coronavirus would have been avoided had the Federal government implementing social distancing protocols just two weeks earlier... Why did the government not act earlier? Donald Trumps behavior and actions regarding the pandemic in the month of February are a matter of public record. Trump radically downplayed the potential impact of the virus (predicting it would magically go away by April), he minimized its very existence (15 cases, soon there will be none), and he ignored the advice of the medical community to institute social distancing practices, sheltering-in-place, and masks. He sat on the sidelines for roughly six weeks, doing nothing, until he finally abdicated any Federal responsibility and announced that the management of the global pandemic should be the responsibility of state governors.
Trumps refusal to acknowledge the reality of the pandemic and to take action to contain it on a timely basis is widely viewed to have been based on his fear that bold steps to lock America down would destroy the economy
the sole justification for the re-election of a President who had failed miserably by virtually any other measure.
"When a President orders men and women in our military into harms way to defend our nation against a clear and present danger to the United States of America, thats called being the Commander in Chief. But when a President intentionally, knowingly, and repeatedly places the health, safety, and lives of citizens of the United States in jeopardy for his own political gain or vanity, there is a different word for it entirely...
The Blue Flower
(5,444 posts)Genocide should become the definition of his maladministration.