So to be clear, on Feb. 7 — when there were only 11 confirmed cases of covid-19 in the United States — Trump both emphasized the danger of the virus being passed through the air and explicitly declared he understood it was far more deadly than the flu.
Stunning new disclosures blow huge holes in Trump’s Potemkin facade
He knew, and his enabler and coconspirators in Congress knew he knew. And they all did nothing while over 180,000 humans died from preventable illnesses.
And 45 just goes golfing, lies, lies some more, and by the next morning, it’s some new, fresh outrage or horror that makes us forget what happened 18 hours earlier.
Woodward knew Turmp was lying every time Turmp downplayed the seriousness and danger of COVID, and Woodward kept quiet to sell books. Woodward is not the hero of this story.
NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL. If we were living up to our ideals and respecting precedent, none of this would have happened. Obviously, too many people would have died, but America leads the world in COVID deaths for a very good reason: our leaders decided that hundreds of thousands of dead Americans was entirely acceptable, so long as it did not affect their bottom line.
Vote for Biden and elect Democrats all the way down the ticket. Republicans are a cancer that must be destroyed.
