[Occupymendocino] the trump pandemic

[Richard Karch]

The Trump Pandemic
A blow-by-blow account of how the president killed thousands of Americans.

By WILLIAM SALETAN <https://slate.com/author/william-saletan>
AUG 09, 20207:00 PM
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On July 17, President Donald Trump sat for a Fox News interview <https://video.foxnews.com/v/6172629328001> at the White House. At the time, nearly 140,000 Americans were dead <https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-latest-updates-07-17-2020-11594976178> from the novel coronavirus. The interviewer, Chris Wallace, showed Trump a video clip in which Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned of a difficult fall and winter <https://www.mediaite.com/news/cdc-director-warns-this-coming-fall-winter-may-be-one-of-the-most-difficult-times-weve-experienced-in-american-public-health/>ahead. Trump dismissed the warning. He scoffed that experts had misjudged the virus all along. “Everybody thought this summer it would go away <https://www.foxnews.com/politics/transcript-fox-news-sunday-interview-with-president-trump>,” said Trump. “They used to say the heat, the heat was good for it and it really knocks it out, remember? So they got that one wrong.”  more>>>>>>>

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