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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn the United States of America, it isn't a "China Plague"
Its TRUMPS PLAGUE.
He is responsible, no matter what or how much he says.
magicarpet
(14,144 posts).. a know nothing,... do nothing,... imbecile, buffoon, and idiotic fool.
Who is not,... was never... of Presidential Timber. Soaking wet, mushy cardboard is more his intellectual style and calling card.
Kid Berwyn
(14,876 posts)Jacob Crosse
World Socialist Web Site, Oct. 14, 2020
A memorandum leaked by a hedge fund consultant to the New York Times reveals that in February, while President Trump was declaring there was no danger to the public from the coronavirus, White House officials were informing wealthy supporters of the administration that the pandemic represented a significant threat of uncertain dimensionstriggering decisions by numerous investors to short-sell stocks and profit from the ensuing plunge in the stock market.
The release of the memo follows earlier US Justice Department investigations into insider trading conducted by multiple US senators, including Republicans Kelly Loeffler (Georgia) James Inhofe (Oklahoma) Richard Burr (North Carolina) and Democrat Dianne Feinstein (California). While investigations have closed on Loeffler, Inhofe, and Feinstein with no charges filed, Burr remains under investigation after being forced to step down as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee in May.
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Prior to the pandemic, the stock market had been hovering near 30,000 on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. But in mid-February the Dow began a nearly 10,000-point drop which continued through March in response to the growing international pandemic crisis.
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The memo was written by William Callanan, a member of the Overseers, located at Stanford University, and then relayed to billionaire David Tepper, founder of Appaloosa Management and owner of the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League, on February 26. Tepper has an estimated net worth of over $12 billion.
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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/16/trad-o16.html
RainCaster
(10,866 posts)I have to remind that idiot quite often about the Trump Virus.
Kid Berwyn
(14,876 posts)No American has killed more of their fellow Americans in this country than Donald Trump, except for Robert E. Lee and Jefferson fucking Davis. No one has a body count to rival Trumps. He knew it. He knew it was there. He did it. He let it happen. It is the most unbelievable and horrifying outcome that we can imagine. Rick Wilson
Source: https://www.niskanencenter.org/trumps-covid-19-culpability/
Moostache
(9,895 posts)"But I shut down China, and I was very fast, faster than anyone maybe ever had heard of..."
"We would have lost 2.2 Million people, but one is too many, if I had not shut down the greatest economy ever in human history..."
Just SHUT THE FUCK UP Donny...these next 3 weeks cannot go fast enough...
Kid Berwyn
(14,876 posts)Fortune recently ran an article on Donniescheissnozzles powers as a master hypnotist.
https://fortune.com/2020/09/27/donald-trump-self-hypnotism-politics/
It has since disappeared. Dont know the reason why its gone, but the stuff it talked about went a long way toward explaining his grip on the GOP.