Leonard Pitts, Jr. obviously lives inside my head. I just found this out recently. Sadly that space is so empty that Charles Blow moved in, too:
It never ceases to amaze me how more people aren’t outraged, shocked and disgusted by Donald Trump’s cruelty and malfeasance.
Nearly 140,000 [this is from July 19; it's now close to 145,000] Americans are now dead because of the Covid-19 pandemic and more than 3,000,000 [now over 4M] have contracted the disease...Cases are surging and the number of dead continues to climb.
This is still the first wave; a second wave could simply pile on and be catastrophic.
And yet, Trump’s cronies are attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci...
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As The Washington Post reported last week:
“Trump in recent weeks has been committing less of his time and energy to managing the pandemic, according to advisers, and has only occasionally spoken in detail about the topic in his public appearances. One of these advisers said the president is ‘not really working this anymore. He doesn’t want to be distracted by it. He’s not calling and asking about data. He’s not worried about cases.’ ”
It never ceases to amaze me how more people aren’t outraged, shocked and disgusted by Donald Trump’s cruelty and malfeasance.
Nearly 140,000 [this is from July 19; it's now close to 145,000] Americans are now dead because of the Covid-19 pandemic and more than 3,000,000 [now over 4M] have contracted the disease...Cases are surging and the number of dead continues to climb.
This is still the first wave; a second wave could simply pile on and be catastrophic.
And yet, Trump’s cronies are attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci...
...
As The Washington Post reported last week:
“Trump in recent weeks has been committing less of his time and energy to managing the pandemic, according to advisers, and has only occasionally spoken in detail about the topic in his public appearances. One of these advisers said the president is ‘not really working this anymore. He doesn’t want to be distracted by it. He’s not calling and asking about data. He’s not worried about cases.’ ”
[I DIDN'T READ THAT! HE "DOESN'T WANT TO BE DISTRACTED"! OMG! Ho-ho-ho.]
Trump is simply putting his head in the sand and attempting to wish the virus away, or lie it away, or let it take its victims until there are no more to be had.
And he doesn’t seem to want to know the true impact of the virus, nor does he want the public to know.
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And recently, the Trump administration told states to stop sending their coronavirus data directly to the C.D.C. and to send it instead to the Department of Health and Human Services. As CNBC reported last week, “Previously public data has already disappeared from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website” following the move.
So again I must ask, where is your outrage? How is this happening? How is it being allowed to happen? Real people, Americans, are being allowed to get sick and die while Trump plays a political game. How long can this continue?
[Oh, well done, Chaz! Took the words right outta my head.]
