‘American Carnage’ Unveiled
by Richard C. Gross
Photograph
by Nathaniel St. Clair
It doesn’t seem to sink in that
this country’s so-called president withheld deadly serious
information from the American people about such a life-altering,
once-in-a-century coronavirus that it could kill them. It was his
biggest lie yet.
What Donald Trump did was
comparable to setting the house on fire – our house – with “we
the people” locked inside as we helplessly watched the smoke
curling in under the doors and dying one by one with little or no
possibility of rescue.
One wag posted online that Trump’s
excuse for not telling the people about the seriousness of the virus
and its follow-on COVID-19 was because he didn’t want to panic them
is as if Prime Minister Winston Churchill refused to turn on air raid
sirens as German bombers approached Britain’s shores during the
Blitz in World War II because he didn’t want to frighten Londoners.
He would have been locked away in
London Tower for the rest of his life.
Not our leader. Though impeached by
the House and forgiven by his Republican-led Senate, he hasn’t been
accountable for his actions as president since he took office Jan.
20, 2017. The extent of his self-proclaimed irresponsibility toward
more than 320 million Americans is indescribable; it’s haunting,
chilling, ghastly. (“I don’t take responsibility at all,” he
said March 13.)
His election opponent Joe Biden
accused Trump of an “almost criminal” act. Almost?
Tens of thousands of Americans may
have died needlessly because Trump didn’t have the moral sense, the
empathy, even the cold political reckoning to share his knowledge
about the danger of the coronavirus even though he was informed about
it in an intelligence briefing Jan. 28, according to Bob Woodward’s
book “Rage.” And he was urged several times by administration
officials in January and February to act, The
New York
Times reported
May 4.
“When a pandemic is raging, it
becomes harder to deny that rigorous, truthful information is a
mortal necessity,” wrote Jonathan Freedland, a columnist
for The Guardian newspaper,
in the Aug. 20 edition of The
New York Review of Books.
“No one need explain the risks of
false information when one can point to, say, the likely consequences
of Americans’ coming to believe they can deflect the virus by
injecting themselves with bleach,” he wrote.
How can someone, especially the
president of what is rapidly becoming what critics say is a failed
state, deliberately lie to his people by telling them the virus —
“one day – it’s like a miracle – it will disappear” –
when the reality that he knew existed was the exact opposite?
Where
is the humanity? Where is the ability to think of the consequences of
his statements about how the disease will just “disappear?”
Trump angrily defended his
deliberate lying at a White House news conference Thursday by
resorting to the not-wanting-to-cause-panic defense by saying, “I
don’t want to jump up and down and start screaming ‘Death!
Death!’ because that’s not what it’s all about. We have to lead
a country. There has to be a calmness.”
Jumping up and down like a little
boy isn’t how a sane leader would go about telling his people that
an alarmingly dangerous disease is coming their way and there’s a
need to prepare. But Trump lied again, full of nonsense about not
wanting to cause panic.
Philip Rucker, the White House
bureau chief for The
Washington Post, hit the
bullseye when he wrote that Trump always purposely tries to panic
people: “Throughout his five years on the national political stage,
Trump has used fear to acquire and keep power. Scare tactics are the
hammer and screwdriver of his tool kit.”
As examples, Rucker reminds that
Trump began his campaign in 2015 by warning that Mexican immigrants
were “rapists” and “bringing drugs” and “bringing crime.”
He warned against Muslims, MS-13 gangs, caravans of Central Americans
seeking asylum in the United States, denounced mail-in voting and
rigged elections and wrote shrill tweets crusading for “LAW AND
ORDER.” Let’s not forget his warnings about “looters,”
“anarchists” and “radical Democrats” supposedly creating
havoc in the streets during demonstrations for racial justice.
All fantasies created in his
twisted mind.
No one, especially in a democracy,
in a country ruled by laws, should be permitted to singlehandedly
create a laughingstock and a dystopia virtually overnight, treating
the citizenry aside from his base of supporters as if they didn’t
exist. The best example of that is how he refused to help coastal big
cities because they were Democratic strongholds. He never has been
the president of all the people.
By not acting on his knowledge of
the approaching danger, Trump not only exacerbated the threat from
the virus, shutting down the infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony
Fauci* but also cratered a thriving economy, on which he had pinned
his hopes for re-election because of a nationwide lockdown whose
duration may have been shorter if federal restrictions on movement
had been enforced early on.
What we got instead was a
remarkable total lack of leadership from the federal government. And
there was no one, not even Ivanka or her husband Jared Kushner, White
House advisers, to force Trump to take responsibility for guiding his
country through its worst health disaster in 100 years. It’s as if
a frightened citizenry were led by a 5-year-old.
We the people should not let this
pass as if it were just one more of Trump’s lies that his
supporters disregard as a harmless personality quirk. This lie was no
quirk. It killed people, probably very many people. (“I alone can
fix it,” he said at the outset of his presidency.)
“This American carnage stops
right here and stops right now,” Trump said in his dark inaugural
address. Trouble is, he is the one responsible for the carnage.
Perhaps it’s best summed up by Shakespeare:
“You told a lie, an odious damned
lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.” Othello,
Act V, Scene 2.
Richard C. Gross, a career
journalist at home and abroad, retired as the opinion page editor of
The Baltimore Sun.
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* Ben het daarin niet eens met Gross, immers ook Fauci is een heel gevaaarlijk man en heeft vele duizenden aids-doden op z'n geweten......
Zie ook:
'Hugo 'Corona' de Jonge ('minister' Volksgezondheid): "Er gaan dingen goed en er gaan dingen niet goed, dat is ons werk..."'
'Coronacrisis: het zoveelste teken dat de privatisering van de zorg een enorme misstap is geweest'
'Zwangere
vrouw in Australië gearresteerd voor het op Facebook posten van
protest tegen de COVID-19 maatregelen'
(en
zie de links in dat bericht naar de aantasting van burgerrechten met
het lamme excuus dat dit nodig is vanwege de Coronacrisis!!)
'Demonstratie tegen Coronamaatregelen Berlijn: 'bestorming Reichstag' en andere leugens'
'Berlijn: demonstratie tegen Coronamaatregelen (twee keer toegestaan door de rechter!)' (in dat bericht ook een staatje waarin aangegeven dat sinds begin juni het aantal sterfgevallen t.o.v. voorgaande jaren nagenoeg hetzelfde is!)
'COVID-19: wellicht zijn 2 vaccinaties nodig zegt farma lobbyist Osterhaus, vandaag zijn dat er al 3: ping ping kassa!!'
'Coronavirus: miljardairs in de VS zagen sinds half maart hun gezamenlijk inkomen met 30% stijgen'
'Coronavirus: Zweden doet het zonder lockdown en mondmaskers uiteindelijk toch goed'
'Wetenschappers zijn bezorgd dat het Coronavirus te snel verdwijnt om een vaccin te maken waarmee het virus snel moet verdwjnen..... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'
'De WHO is bijkans overgenomen door de grote farmaceuten; juist van groot belang door de Coronacrisis'
'Coronavirus: Fauci een autoriteit op virologisch gebied? Lees en zie dit!'
'Ab Osterhaus (viroloog en farmaceut-lobbyist) wil mondkapjes en stelt dat 90% van de Nederlanders nog geen Coronabesmetting heeft gehad'
'Bill Gates' inzet tegen het Coronavirus en zijn handelen op vaccinatiegebied: de winsten van de farmaceuten vermenigvuldigen'
'Bill Gates, CDC, WHO en de farmaceuten anticipeerden op de Coronacrisis in november 2019.....'
Zie wat betreft de PCR-test voor COVID-19 en de test op antilichamen voor dat virus:
'Coronavirus: PCR-test kan niet aantonen dat het virus aanwezig is in het lichaam, beweringen dat dit wel zo is zijn gelogen' (in dat bericht zie je een groot aantal links naar oudere artikelen over het Coronavirus)
Ook de test op antilichamen klopt niet, dit is een test voor mensen die het virus onder de leden hebben gehad(!!): 'COVID-19 testen op antilichamen van o.a. Roche, Quest en Abbott zijn waardeloos'
'Fauci en de CDC hebben toegegeven dat de hele Coronacrisis zwaar wordt overdreven, zet dat eens af tegen de toespraak van premier Rutte en minister de Jonge'(!!!!)
Voor nog veel meer berichten over het Coronavirus, klik op dat label, direct onder dit bericht.
