Trump discussed sending infected Americans to Guantanamo Bay: book
Source: The Hill
Trump, during a February 2020 meeting in the Situation Room as administration officials were discussing whether to bring infected Americans home for care, reportedly asked the attendees Dont we have an island that we own? and What about Guantánamo?
We import goods, Trump reportedly said to his staff, adding, We are not going to import a virus.
The new details come from Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administrations Response to the Pandemic That Changed History, authored by Washington Post journalists Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta. The authors interviewed more than 180 people, including a number of White House senior staff members and government health leaders.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/559369-trump-discussed-sending-infected-americans-to-guantanamo-bay-book
niyad
(113,581 posts)dchill
(38,545 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,308 posts)It's like Trump wrote his own Orwellian satire, if that's a correct take on it.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)I would support that.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Show me the positive test result
lame54
(35,326 posts)He probably went in for bowel blockage and made up the rest
He's the guy who can stare into an eclipse and beat covid in days
I am still shocked he never claimed a hole in one
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)He really is like so many Americans, whose 1st reactions are always extreme, callous, simplistic, binary, and cruel.
DFW
(54,445 posts)For our Republican visitors unfamiliar with the word, thats colonys to you.
IronLionZion
(45,540 posts)in the hopes that it would mostly impact big liberal cities. That idiotic plan backfired badly. It's been raging through rural areas for the past year ever since last summer.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Genocide, basically.
But it did backfire and now its infecting very red, rural areas.
Whatthe_Firetruck
(558 posts)...who are giving masterclass demonstrations on the modern definition of darwinism (Darwin awards) by refusing masks, distancing, and vaccines. So the virus ix affecting red folks more than blues.
bdamomma
(63,923 posts)rural areas they will never learn, they bask in their guns and hate. smh.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(1,983 posts)With those rootin' tootin' shootin' irons, they'll blast those Covid varmints to kingdom come!
bdamomma
(63,923 posts)but sad, Welcome to DU!
JI7
(89,275 posts)were being disproportionately affected is when things started to change .
That's when demands to open everthing up started.
DENVERPOPS
(8,845 posts)needs his very own Gulag......
MissMillie
(38,582 posts)in the Continental U.S. He didn't even want people to get off the cruise ships.
And yeah, I believe he was stoopid enough to actually vocalize this idea in to people who would leak it.
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)Scared them pretty good with the NDAs and Leak Investigations.
lame54
(35,326 posts)Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)that he wanted to divert to Gitmo and keep the people on it ... there. I would bet that was the context of what's being referred to here.
To 'keep his numbers down', you see.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)how can TFG think this is a big enough place to hold the many thousands of COVID patients that started to swamp the hospitals at the beginning of the outbreak? Just that one fact destroys his "brilliant" solution. But he didn't know that fact, didn't look up that fact, didn't ask about that fact. He was just tossing out total nonsense like he usually does.
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)but might be infected.
But of course he had no idea there's only room for 800 at Gitmo. He thought it was an 'island'. He's a moron.
lonely bird
(1,689 posts)He said it would disappear one day like a miracle. And he would never lie, would he?
(searches for misplaced sarcasm emoji)
IowaGuy
(778 posts)GB_RN
(2,384 posts)Well, one, we dont own Cuba. Two, we dont own Guantanamo, either, we lease it from Cuba.
Jesus, the man knows NOTHING.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)BootinUp
(47,195 posts)Paladin
(28,275 posts)That ought to be the trump regime's official motto.
Initech
(100,104 posts)God, what a psychopath!
twodogsbarking
(9,822 posts)That was classic.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)and he wanted to leave them there because he didn't "want the numbers to go up" ?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-09/after-days-of-coronavirus-cabin-fever-cruise-passengers-eager-to-land-in-oakland