Crimes Against Humanity

Over the last three years, we've seen Trump do a lot of malevolent, stupid, unconstitutional and immoral crap. Banning Muslims from entering the country, siding with white supremacists, killing environmental regulations, banning transgender people from serving in the military, attacking the innocent and helpless, eliminating people's healthcare, and the constant corruption and grifting. The list is unbelievably, horribly, long.

But newly reported actions, taken by the White House in April, truly reach the level of a crime against humanity.

Vanity Fair sets out the story of a Coronavirus task group, headed by nepotism hire, Jared Kushner, working on a pandemic response. Trump had stupidly disbanded the professional, experienced pandemic response team President Obama had set up, so Kushner and a bunch of amateurs were trying to put together a national strategy.

By early April, some who worked on the plan were given the strong impression that it would soon be shared with President Trump and announced by the White House. The plan, though imperfect, was a starting point. Simply working together as a nation on it “would have put us in a fundamentally different place,” said the participant.

But the effort ran headlong into shifting sentiment at the White House. Trusting his vaunted political instincts, President Trump had been downplaying concerns about the virus and spreading misinformation about it—efforts that were soon amplified by Republican elected officials and right-wing media figures. Worried about the stock market and his reelection prospects, Trump also feared that more testing would only lead to higher case counts and more bad publicity. Meanwhile, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, was reportedly sharing models with senior staff that optimistically—and erroneously, it would turn out—predicted the virus would soon fade away.

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.

Read that again.

 "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,”

They DELIBERATELY let people DIE because they thought Trump would benefit politically.

Read the entire, appalling, infuriating story here. Trump has never been the President of the entire United States, never cared about all the people of the U.S., just his moron supporters. And now, after months of inaction by their hero, the "red" states are taking the brunt of the death and misery.

In a Biden Administration, there must be some consequences for these monsters. Justice and morality demand that they be tried for these crimes.

DON'T VOTE FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE ACTIVELY TRIED TO KILL YOU.