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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Trump Pandemic
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/trump-coronavirus-deaths-timeline.htmlOn July 17, President Donald Trump sat for a Fox News interview at the White House. At the time, nearly 140,000 Americans were dead from the novel coronavirus. The interviewer, Chris Wallace, showed Trump a video clip in which Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned of a difficult fall and winter ahead. Trump dismissed the warning. He scoffed that experts had misjudged the virus all along. Everybody thought this summer it would go away, said Trump. They used to say the heat, the heat was good for it and it really knocks it out, remember? So they got that one wrong.
Trumps account was completely backward. Redfield and other U.S. public health officials had never promised that heat would knock out the virus. In fact, they had cautioned against that assumption. The person who had held out the false promise of a warm-weather reprieve, again and again, was Trump. And he hadnt gotten the idea from any of his medical advisers. He had gotten it from Xi Jinping, the president of China, in a phone call in February.
The phone call, the talking points Trump picked up from it, and his subsequent attempts to cover up his alliance with Xi are part of a deep betrayal. The story the president now tellsthat he built the greatest economy in history, that China blindsided him by unleashing the virus, and that Trump saved millions of lives by mobilizing America to defeat itis a lie. Trump collaborated with Xi, concealed the threat, impeded the U.S. governments response, silenced those who sought to warn the public, and pushed states to take risks that escalated the tragedy. Hes personally responsible for tens of thousands of deaths.
This isnt speculation. All the evidence is in the public record. But the truth, unlike Trumps false narrative, is scattered in different places. Its in emails, leaks, interviews, hearings, scientific reports, and the presidents stray remarks. This article puts those fragments together. It documents Trumps interference or negligence in every stage of the governments failure: preparation, mobilization, public communication, testing, mitigation, and reopening.
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The Trump Pandemic (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Aug 2020
OP
Excellent article chock full of info how trDump royally screwed up America's ,...
magicarpet
Aug 2020
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magicarpet
(14,155 posts)1. Excellent article chock full of info how trDump royally screwed up America's ,...
.... response to the Covid Pandemic. 10s of thousands of deaths are directly due to trDumps befuddled response.
Nululu
(842 posts)2. Wondered where trump got his ideas
Now we know the source of some of his delusions