Trump did the crime, then he arranged the cover-up; only this time the crime is genocide

[Nevilledog]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/31/1965464/-Trump-did-the-crime-then-he-arranged-the-cover-up-only-this-time-the-crime-is-genocide
Thursday evening brought a pair of stories that are individually jaw-dropping, but taken together this new information seems too large to even comprehend. One of these stories was the revelation that efforts at national testing were suspended because Donald Trump became convinced that deaths were concentrated in states with Democratic governors, and letting Americans in blue states die would be good politics. The second was an investigation into shifting COVID-19 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to Health and Human Services (HHS) actually meant gifting it to a pair of billionaire friends of Trump without following any rules of competitive bidding.

When those two stories are set side by side, they explain how Donald Trump, fresh from the ultimate show of loyalty by the Republican Senate, decided that he would allow tens of thousands of Americans to die for political expediency. Then, when it became clear that his decision to let the pandemic burn out of control began to singe red states as well as blue, Trump brought in some experts to help him cover up a crime against humanity.

When Trump stepped out of the White House on March 13 along with the CEOs of some of America’s largest retailers and pharmacy chains, it got exactly the response that Trump wanted. The media reliably reported on Trump’s latest “pivot,” how he was acting “presidential,” and how he was “finally taking the coronavirus seriously.” Even as the line of CEOs were announcing plans for providing testing facilities in parking lots, and Trump was describing how 1,700 Google engineers were working on a website that would coordinate testing across the country, the numbers on Wall Street were soaring up and up.

Americans would soon be able to go to a single website to locate testing sites and schedule a test at any of thousands of sites conveniently located across the country. The results of these tests would be rapidly provided to them from the same website, and an army of contract tracers would be standing by to help see that those exposed to the virus were isolated. That Rose Garden announcement was coming almost two months after the first case was identified in the United States, and even the CEOs on hand for the event admitted that plans were sketchy. While there were thousands of infections that could have been stopped by appropriate action in January, it seemed that America was finally on its way to a coherent strategy. The six CEOs who came to the microphone that day represented over 32,000 store locations—enough that there could be a testing site for every 10,000 Americans.

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[OnDoutside]

1. Don't forget Jared's role in this.

[crickets]

2. K&R for visibility.

[2naSalit]

3. K&R

[alwaysinasnit]

4. k&r for visibility

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. Genocide? Then Trumps AND Repubs should have to

face a modern day Nuremberg trial!

[Mickju]

6. I've been calling him a murderer for a few months now.

It absolutely is genocide.

[Tommymac]

7. K & R ight up Donnie's arse

[FakeNoose]

8. So much winning! Have they had enough yet?

[bearssoapbox]

9. And the murderous rat-bastard traitors are setting up more murders

Now they are preparing to kill our children, our grandchildren and the families of those children by forcing them to go to school where the virus will spread spread, and those that it doesn't kill will need continuing medical care. He and his cult need to be stopped.