Trump's Biggest Crime

His lies, recklessness and incompetence caused 1 in 300 Americans to die from Covid-19

“We pretty much shut it down coming in from China,” he said.

“The 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero,” he said.

“This is their new hoax,” he said.

And now 1 in 300 Americans are dead

We knew before he was elected that Trump was a con man, a scammer, a liar and a serial sexual predator.

We saw in the first years of his Presidency how damaging his shamelessness, stupidity and venality could be to our institutions, our economy and our allies such as Ukraine.

But when a true crisis hit, the reality of Trump’s hardwired psychopathy became fully apparent.

As I wrote on March 10, 2020: Bush lied us into a war. Trump lied us into a pandemic.

As psychologist Vince Greenwood, Ph.D, told me recently, the Covid-19 pandemic was a crisis that “demanded discipline, attention to detail, and perseverance.” Instead, the psychopath Trump presented as “disinhibited, reckless, undisciplined, unruly, easily bored, disorganized and undependable.”

Trump’s “Quislings” Made It Worse

Lawrence O’Donnell reintroduced the word “Quisling” into America’s vocabulary this week when he was discussing Lindsey Graham’s dangerous obeisance to FPOTUS even after the One Term Loser’s theft of America’s most sensitive secrets.

But the GOP Governors who have spread disease and death in the age of free vaccines are Quislings, too.

Their mimicry of Trump’s psychopathic recklessness have catapulted Red States to the top of the “leader board” in Covid-19 death rates.

According to Worldometers, the Top 5 states in deaths-per-capita all have GOP Governors.

1. Mississippi
2. Arizona
3. Alabama
4. W. Virginia
5. Tennessee

Meanwhile, Florida has shown the dangers of letting a Quisling like Ron DeSantis run a highly populated US state.

With a death toll now at 80,000, Floridians have died of Covid-19 at a rate more than 50% higher than Californians, despite California being one of the hardest hit states in spring 2020.

Never Forget Trump’s Unforgivable Crime

We know Trump’s a liar, a cheat and a traitor.

We know he’s caused the GOP to reveal itself as an extremist “Christian” cult at war with women, minorities, science, the rule of law, the teachings of Jesus and democracy itself.

But, beyond all that, we should never forget: Trump’s also a Covid-19 war criminal.

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