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Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Leid Stories - Donald Trump: Humanitarian--and Human--Disaster - 11.12.20
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
Thursday Nov 12, 2020
TOPIC: Donald Trump: Humanitarian--and Human--Disaster
More than 10 million people in the United States have been diagnosed and are suffering with Covid-19. Two hundred and forty-one thousand have died from the disease, and health authorities project 100,000 more Covid-19 victims will die in the next two months.
By any measure, the Covid-19 pandemic has had, and continues to have, catastropic effect in the United States. Not that one can tell from the priorities and urgent concerns of President Donald Trump. He's AWOL on the issue-- what with making the case that he lost a second shot at the presidency because of (unproven) pro-Biden voter fraud.
So uninvolved in leading a response to the Covid-19 crisis, both at home and abroad, the U.S. and world health community have come to regard him ad a "humanitarian disaster."
It's the subject of our discussion on Leid Stories today