That was the end of the Trump administration doing anything meaningful to try to protect Americans from a deadly virus for the rest of Trump's last year in office. He cancelled the planned mask distribution by the Post Office and instead promoted quack cures on TV.
Trump put race and politics above lives, and now a million Americans are dead.
And like with the Israeli spy, Trump has never been held to account for setting up so many gullible Americans to die an agonizing, strangling death.
But wait! There's more!!
Trump conspired with armed white supremacist terrorists to block the peaceful transfer of power on January 6th and 20th, sending a murderous mob against our Capitol by lying to them that the election he'd lost by 7 million votes was "stolen" from him.
Now we're learning from NSC security expert for Russia and Ukraine Fiona Hill that Trump's buddy Putin was rooting for him to succeed with the coup plan for January 6th so Putin could get on with taking out Ukraine right after the first of the year.
Trump wouldn't have done a thing about a Russian massacre of Ukraine; after all, he'd already tried to extort Zelensky by withholding anti-tank missiles and was impeached (but not convicted) for it.
He made no secret that he generally hated all things Ukraine. As well as doing pretty much everything Putin told him to do, including trying to damage both NATO and the European Union. Lacking a friendly president but pleased that Trump had weakened Ukraine for him, Putin decided to go ahead with his invasion anyway on February 24th, and the rest is history.
This short article just scratches the surface of the criminality of Donald Trump. In addition:
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He squeezed over a billion dollars out of the government and into his own pockets while in office, oversaw a corrupt PPP program where his buddies made off with billions, and again is threatening to end democracy in the United States.
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He conspired to steal an election and, when that didn't work, launched a mob to murder Vice President Pence and stop Congress, resulting in multiple deaths, including several police officers.
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He stole top-secret documents, taking them to Florida where they could be seen by any old spy who wanted to drop by. (And Republicans wanted to lock up Hillary because her personal email wasn't secure?!?)
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Significant questions linger about whether he blackmailed Anthony Kennedy to leave the Supreme Court; how much additional intelligence he handed over to Putin; and why he shut down the White House cybersecurity office, leaving the Russians to set up house in the computers of multiple federal agencies for over a year before Biden came into office.
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When he lost the election, he called the Secretary of State for Georgia and demanded that Raffensperger find an additional 11,000+ votes to reverse his loss, committing multiple explicit felonies.
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And while it's not something he could go to jail for, he should also be held to account in some way for encouraging an explosion of racial, religious, and gender-based hatred and violence that echoes to this day.
Trump's actions during his four years in the presidency, his year of campaigning before that, and his behavior since have corrupted American politics, sown deep distrust in our electoral system, and pitted Americans against each other.
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