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Public Citizen notes that while the U.S. death toll readies to surpass the 100,000 person threshold in the U.S., Trump's "chaotic and incompetent response" to the Covid-19 pandemic--including his failure to prepare the nation for such a calamity in the first place to his repeated assault on scientific understanding and undermining the warnings of public health experts-- has "fueled the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. and beyond, causing tens of thousands of preventable deaths." (Image: Public Citizen)
To assist those wanting a more simple accounting of how President Donald Trump's mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic, Public Citizen on Wednesday released a fresh list of a dozen specific ways the president's decisions and public pronouncements served to speed up the spread of the deadly virus.
The consumer rights group noted that while the death toll readies to pass the 100,000 person threshold in the United States, "the chaotic and incompetent response" of Trump--from his failure to prepare the nation for such a calamity in the first place to his repeated assault on scientific understanding and undermining the warnings of public health experts-- has "fueled the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. and beyond, causing tens of thousands of preventable deaths."
In an online statement, Public Citizen listed the dozen failures of the president as follows:
An ABC News/Ispos poll out last week revealed that just 39 percent of Americans approve of Trump's handling of the pandemic even as the president has consistently cast everyone from China to former President Barack Obama to the World Health Organization as the culprits behind the high rate of infections and death in the country.
While noting that it is impossible to ignore the broader failures and shortcomings of the U.S. healthcare, economic, and political system that make the United States uniquely ill-equipped to fight a pandemic, The Nation's Jeet Heer earlier this month said the pandemic still 'provides more than enough evidence to render a judgment on Trump as one of the worst presidents in American history."
"The pandemic is sometimes compared to the 9/11 attack. But it's a 9/11 where hundreds die every day. Nor is there any end in sight," wrote Jeer. "The fall presidential election is crucial for getting rid of the failed leadership of Donald Trump that made this crisis much worse than it had to be."
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To assist those wanting a more simple accounting of how President Donald Trump's mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic, Public Citizen on Wednesday released a fresh list of a dozen specific ways the president's decisions and public pronouncements served to speed up the spread of the deadly virus.
The consumer rights group noted that while the death toll readies to pass the 100,000 person threshold in the United States, "the chaotic and incompetent response" of Trump--from his failure to prepare the nation for such a calamity in the first place to his repeated assault on scientific understanding and undermining the warnings of public health experts-- has "fueled the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. and beyond, causing tens of thousands of preventable deaths."
In an online statement, Public Citizen listed the dozen failures of the president as follows:
An ABC News/Ispos poll out last week revealed that just 39 percent of Americans approve of Trump's handling of the pandemic even as the president has consistently cast everyone from China to former President Barack Obama to the World Health Organization as the culprits behind the high rate of infections and death in the country.
While noting that it is impossible to ignore the broader failures and shortcomings of the U.S. healthcare, economic, and political system that make the United States uniquely ill-equipped to fight a pandemic, The Nation's Jeet Heer earlier this month said the pandemic still 'provides more than enough evidence to render a judgment on Trump as one of the worst presidents in American history."
"The pandemic is sometimes compared to the 9/11 attack. But it's a 9/11 where hundreds die every day. Nor is there any end in sight," wrote Jeer. "The fall presidential election is crucial for getting rid of the failed leadership of Donald Trump that made this crisis much worse than it had to be."
To assist those wanting a more simple accounting of how President Donald Trump's mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic, Public Citizen on Wednesday released a fresh list of a dozen specific ways the president's decisions and public pronouncements served to speed up the spread of the deadly virus.
The consumer rights group noted that while the death toll readies to pass the 100,000 person threshold in the United States, "the chaotic and incompetent response" of Trump--from his failure to prepare the nation for such a calamity in the first place to his repeated assault on scientific understanding and undermining the warnings of public health experts-- has "fueled the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S. and beyond, causing tens of thousands of preventable deaths."
In an online statement, Public Citizen listed the dozen failures of the president as follows:
An ABC News/Ispos poll out last week revealed that just 39 percent of Americans approve of Trump's handling of the pandemic even as the president has consistently cast everyone from China to former President Barack Obama to the World Health Organization as the culprits behind the high rate of infections and death in the country.
While noting that it is impossible to ignore the broader failures and shortcomings of the U.S. healthcare, economic, and political system that make the United States uniquely ill-equipped to fight a pandemic, The Nation's Jeet Heer earlier this month said the pandemic still 'provides more than enough evidence to render a judgment on Trump as one of the worst presidents in American history."
"The pandemic is sometimes compared to the 9/11 attack. But it's a 9/11 where hundreds die every day. Nor is there any end in sight," wrote Jeer. "The fall presidential election is crucial for getting rid of the failed leadership of Donald Trump that made this crisis much worse than it had to be."