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Kid Berwyn

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Sat Aug 1, 2020, 09:49 AM Aug 2020

Trump and Kushner must be prosecuted for crimes against humanity [View all]



There is no word to describe Trump and Jared’s murderous criminality. Their willfull actions have resulted in the deaths of more than 150,000 US citizens they swore to protect.



Trump and Kushner must be prosecuted for crimes against humanity

Written by David Atkins / Washington Monthly August 1, 2020 Commentary

EXCERPT...

But the latest report from Vanity Fair implicates both Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner of an unspeakable horror orders of magnitude greater. Instead of implementing a comprehensive and aggressive national testing plan the pandemic team originally recommended, Kushner scuttled it. The president and his son-in-law were instead content to allow tens of thousands of Americans die as long as they were mostly people of color, and hailing from Democratic states and counties. Not only that, they saw it as a political opportunity to both cull the numbers of opposing voters and lay blame on Democratic governors at the same time:

Against that background, the prospect of launching a large-scale national plan was losing favor, said one public health expert in frequent contact with the White House’s official coronavirus task force.

Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner’s team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. “The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy,” said the expert.

That logic may have swayed Kushner. “It was very clear that Jared was ultimately the decision maker as to what [plan] was going to come out,” the expert said.


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We even lack the vocabulary to even describe it. “Gross negligence” doesn’t reach the level of the crime. “Murder” is lurid, but frankly not a comprehensive enough word to describe the death of 140,000. “Treason” comes to mind when considering that the President of the United States knowingly allowed 140,000 Americans to die because they were mostly his political opponents–but despite his Russia entanglements, there is no direct evidence he did so on behalf of a foreign power.

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https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/08/01/trump-and-kushner-must-be-prosecuted-for-crimes-against-humanity/



The US needs to reckon with these two mass murdering traitors, immediately. Otherwise, until Jan. 20, 2021 they will have enormous power at their disposal to avoid that reckoning.
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Kick dalton99a Aug 2020 #1
Thanks, dalton99a! Jared turned to Facebook for expertise... Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #10
Reactivate the Independent Prosecutor law and prosecute them all, Nuremberg tribunals for all Fiendish Thingy Aug 2020 #2
Yes! We do not know who is embedded in the gov't now and it will take major investigators to root Hestia Aug 2020 #11
Independent being the operative term. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #14
There's one additional point that would need to be addressed... JHB Aug 2020 #33
+1000,000!! ancianita Aug 2020 #26
Depraved indifference. blm Aug 2020 #3
Blueprints Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #20
We need media willing to call this what it is. blm Aug 2020 #21
+100 Duppers Aug 2020 #34
THIS malaise Aug 2020 #40
Genoside came to my mind. BigmanPigman Aug 2020 #29
+1. dchill Aug 2020 #32
THIS! Zoonart Aug 2020 #4
No kidding. From this to the bounties Trump should be lead away underpants Aug 2020 #6
Yes. Zoonart Aug 2020 #7
Must avoid anything that upsets the monster and one's place in the pecking order. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #25
That was part of my take when I read it the other night underpants Aug 2020 #5
"Politically Advantageous" Depravity merits prosecution to the fullest. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #35
Master of incompetence underpants Aug 2020 #42
Lock them up! malaise Aug 2020 #8
It's like destiny. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #38
This is a kakistocracy on steroids malaise Aug 2020 #39
Absolute thieves. Plus, they're incompetent. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #41
Agreed. We will never regain standing in the world as a nation if we allow crickets Aug 2020 #9
We had a plan. Dump did the opposite. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #43
At The Hague? 2naSalit Aug 2020 #12
Dump must be held to account for all of it. Kid Berwyn Aug 2020 #44
I've been saying we need a new Nuremburg CanonRay Aug 2020 #13
I misread "prosecuted" as a much harsher word. Works for me. niyad Aug 2020 #15
Genocide. It's genocide. CaptainTruth Aug 2020 #16
As usual, their incompetence resulted in more red state deaths than blue state ones. Nitram Aug 2020 #17
This one is simple. They need to be in jail.!!!! ashredux Aug 2020 #18
kick miyazaki Aug 2020 #19
I agree to the fullest. NNadir Aug 2020 #22
nevermind that trump is in the white house, the only reason they think they can certainot Aug 2020 #23
And conservative voters are complicit with it. They are sick. ffr Aug 2020 #24
My former BFF of 36 years is a MAGAt whose father was an official at the Nuremberg trials. Go figure OMGWTF Aug 2020 #31
Negligent Genocide RealityBasedNewYorkr Aug 2020 #27
Recommended. H2O Man Aug 2020 #28
Indeed they must. PatrickforO Aug 2020 #30
Kushner torpedoed the plan because Trump told him to do it Lasher Aug 2020 #36
K&R smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #37
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