At his press briefing on Monday evening, Trump unloaded over the news that an internal government report documented that hospitals across the country are suffering severe supply shortages, which could mean wrenching decisions about how to allocate equipment among those hospitalized with the coronavirus.
Trump attacked the report’s author — an official in the inspector general’s office at the Department of Health and Human Services — and essentially said the findings are Fake News.
“That’s just wrong,” Trump seethed. “Did I hear the word ‘inspector general,’ really? It’s wrong.”
Trump then suggested the findings might be politically tainted. “Where did he come from, the inspector general? What’s his name?” Trump said, adding: “Could politics be entered into that?”
Trump kept it up on Tuesday, attacking the report as a “Fake Dossier.”
All of which is absurd, since the report’s findings reflect what hospitals are saying. In a sense, what’s really going on here is that Trump is in a rage because medical professionals battling on the front lines of the coronavirus candidly described the hardships they’re facing, in part due to his own catastrophic failures.
Trump’s latest depraved display could lead to more deaths
A leader leads. A fascist dictator attacks facts and declares that any fact which makes him look like the lying, incompetent, Fascist that he is, must be shoved into the Memory Hole.
Trump does not care about anyone, even people who voted for him. Like all Republicans, he cares only about his own money and his own power.
May history judge him as harshly as he deserves. I hope future generations despise him and his supporters so much, they are shunned from public life forever.
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