Trump discussed sending infected Americans to Guantanamo Bay: book

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

Former President Trump reportedly suggested sending Americans infected with COVID-19 to Guantanamo Bay in an effort to stem the rapidly growing number of cases on U.S. soil in the early days of the pandemic, according to a new book.

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 “Don’t 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 Administration’s 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]

1. But the virus was a hoax, correct?

[dchill]

2. A microcosmic example of what he wanted for America?

[bucolic_frolic]

3. The great humanitarian who loves our country, the greatest country as he often told us

It's like Trump wrote his own Orwellian satire, if that's a correct take on it.

[NYC Liberal]

4. Maybe he should self-deport to Guantanamo since he had it.

I would support that.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. The same thing. However to me the jury is still out on whether he had it

Show me the positive test result

[lame54]

19. He did recover awfully fast...

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]

5. Kneejerk know-nothingisms

He really is like so many Americans, whose 1st reactions are always extreme, callous, simplistic, binary, and cruel.

[DFW]

6. Yeah, leper colonies were SUCH a popular institution in their day

For our Republican visitors unfamiliar with the word, that‘s „colony‘s“ to you.

[IronLionZion]

7. At some point they decided to ignore it and spread it as much as possible

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]

9. They tried to weaponize the virus.

Genocide, basically.

But it did backfire and now it’s infecting very red, rural areas.

[Whatthe_Firetruck]

12. Red rural areas...

...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]

18. Those deep red

rural areas they will never learn, they bask in their guns and hate. smh.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

32. They don't need no stinkin' vaccines!

With those rootin' tootin' shootin' irons, they'll blast those Covid varmints to kingdom come!

[bdamomma]

34. Funny

but sad, Welcome to DU!

[JI7]

25. When it started being reported how blacks, Latinos, native people

were being disproportionately affected is when things started to change .

That's when demands to open everthing up started.

[DENVERPOPS]

10. Every Tyrant

needs his very own Gulag......

[MissMillie]

11. I believe he would have been willing to do anything to keep the numbers low

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]

13. They kept their mouths shut till now, though.

Scared them pretty good with the NDAs and Leak Investigations.

[lame54]

20. Anything but deal with the problem competently

[Hugh_Lebowski]

29. I'd imagine it's precisely that one cruise ship that was in the news early on

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]

14. He really is an idiot, isn't he?

[Nay]

17. Why, yes, he is. A quick Google reveals that Gitmo can hold about 800 prisoners, so

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]

31. Pretty sure he was talking about US folks who weren't already physically in the country

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]

15. Why would he bother?

He said it would disappear one day like a miracle. And he would never lie, would he?

(searches for misplaced sarcasm emoji)

[IowaGuy]

16. I can think of one guy that was infected that would have been a good idea for.....(nt)

[GB_RN]

21. "...[A]n Island That We Own? What About Guantanamo?"

Well, one, we don’t own Cuba. Two, we don’t own Guantanamo, either, we lease it from Cuba.

Jesus, the man knows NOTHING.

[Pepsidog]

22. Let's export the orange anus to Guantanamo Bay.

[monkeyman1]

35. the whole damn tribe !!!

[BootinUp]

23. Of course he did

[Paladin]

24. However bad we imagined it to be, it was infinitely worse.

That ought to be the trump regime's official motto.

[Initech]

26. I think I'd rather send him there instead!

God, what a psychopath!

[twodogsbarking]

27. "You're not like someone's crazy uncle."

That was classic.

[flibbitygiblets]

28. Remember the cruise ship that sat stranded off the coast of CA last March

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

[Hugh_Lebowski]

30. I'd bet that's who he was talking about sending to Gitmo (nt)

[bucolic_frolic]

33. Have a flu-like illness? Don't spend it in your own bed! Go to Concentration Camp instead!