John Goldsworthy
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For the record NO ONE is blaming the President for the virus. Let me repeat. Coronavirus is not Trump’s fault. Here’s a detailed list of what we are blaming him for:
Trump declined to use the World Health Organization’s test like other nations. Back in January, over a month before the first Co-vid19 case, the Chinese posted a new mysterious virus and within a week, Berlin virologists had produced the first diagnostic test. By the end of February, the WHO had shipped out tests to 60 countries. Oh, but not our government. We declined the test even as a temporary bridge until the CDC could create its own test. The question is why? We don’t know but what to look for is which pharmaceutical company eventually manufactures the test and who owns the stock. Keep tuned.
In 2018 Trump fired Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossart, whose job was to coordinate a response to global pandemics. He was not replaced.
In 2018 Dr. Luciana Borio, the NSC director for medical and bio-defense preparedness left the job. Trump did not replace Dr. Borio.
In 2019 the NSC’s Senior Director for Global Health Security and bio-defense, Tim Ziemer, left the position and Trump did not replace the Rear Admiral.
Trump shut down the entire Global Health Security and Bio-defense agency. Yes, he did.
Amid the explosive worldwide outbreak of the virus Trump proposed a 19% cut to the budget of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention plus a 10% cut to Public Health Services and a 7% cut to Global Health Services. Those happen to be the organizations that responds to public health threats.
In 2018, at Trump’s direction, the CDC stopped funding epidemic prevention activities in 39 out of 49 countries including China. Trump didn’t appoint a doctor to oversee the US response to the pandemic. He appointed Mike Pence.
Trump has on multiple occasions sowed doubt about the severity of the virus even using the word hoax at events and rallies. He even did it at an event where the virus was being spread.
Trump has put out zero useful information concerning the health risks of the virus.
Trump pretended the virus had been contained. Trump left a cruise ship at sea for days, denying them proper hospital care, rather than increase his numbers in America.
Repeat. We do not blame Trump for the virus. We blame him for gutting the nation’s preparations to deal with it. We blame him for bungling testing and allowing it to spread uninhibited. We blame him for wasting taxpayer money on applause lines at his rallies (like The Wall). We blame him for putting his own political life over American human life. I hope this clears things up.
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People continue to analyze Donald Trump, as many times his conduct and demeanor seem to defy reason or logic. It is quite discernible and apparent that he is most assuredly on the Autism Spectrum/PDD(Pervasive Development Disorder), exhibiting innumerable characteristics and traits pertaining to the syndrome. They include his lack of understanding and comprehension, his short attention span, his seeming inability to express affection and emotion or empathy or compassion, his ineptitude at understanding humor, as to many with Autism, humor is very abstract, as are many things, his inappropriateness in the things he says, such as dating his daughter, injecting disinfectants, and, "Obamagate", or his actions, such as throwing out paper towels in Puerto Rico, his tantrums, his repetitive nature, as in the hundreds of tweets in a short period of time, and his obsessions, as with Obama and McCain. George Will, the conservative pundit even labelled him as Socially Autistic. And, it is known that Autism can be hereditary, as witnessed by his youngest son Barron.
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Trump's life, and his presidency, are littered with examples of him weaponizing race for his own personal or political benefit. From a housing discrimination lawsuit in the 1970s to his comments about the "Central Park 5" to his assertion that "both sides" were to blame for white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, and dozens of smaller moments in between, Trump has, again and again, showed he simply does not get it when it comes to America's ongoing racial problems. Or, seen through another lens, that he gets it all too well.
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Jack O’Donnell is the former president of Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino. O'Donnell: "Sometimes his petty prejudices begat very public tirades. One day, he flew into a rage over a limousine driver who arrived to pick him up wearing gray shoes, soiling his image by “looking like a f------ Puerto Rican.”
In 1988, shortly after I was promoted to president of Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino, he invited me up to New York for lunch. There was a lot to talk over one issue in particular: one of our senior managers, who happened to be African-American. Donald considered him incompetent and wanted him fired. When I acknowledged some shortcomings in the man’s performance, he instantly became enthused. “Yeah, I never liked the guy,” he said. “And isn’t it funny, I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.” I was mortified. We were in a restaurant in Trump Tower. I worried he’d be overheard. But he went on, “Besides that, I’ve got to tell you something else: I think the guy is lazy, and it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is. I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”
Trump is actually offended that anyone would even suggest that he's NOT a racist. Notice how he never seems to be offended by being called a racist. Whenever he makes racist comments, he doesn't take them back, he doubles down on them. Trump's racist comments over the years have received praise from neo-nazis and white supremacist leaders like David Duke. Trump: "Jeb Bush has to like the Mexican illegals because of his wife." Jeb Bush’s wife is Mexican - American During the campaign, Trump impugned the character of U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, a native-born American, hailing from Indiana, who was hearing a class action case against Trump's now-discredited fake Trump University. "He's a Mexican," Trump said to CNN of Curiel. "We're building a wall between here and Mexico. The answer is, he is giving us very unfair rulings — rulings that people can't even believe." Claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment. It's the type of comment that only a racist would applaud..
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