1. On April 28, Trump signed an order requiring meatpacking plants to "continue their operations to the fullest extent possible."
At the time 20 meatpacking workers had died of COVID-19
4 months later, at least 203 meatpacking workers have died
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2. A draft of the executive order was sent to Trump by a meatpacking industry group a week before Trump signed the order.
While Trump framed the action as an "order" to the meatpacking industry, he was actually doing its bidding
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3. Last week, as the death toll mounted, the Trump administration finally took some action.
It fined JSB for failing to protect workers at a plant where 7 people died of COVID.
The fine was $15,615.
JSB had $51.7 billion in revenue last year
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4. Why is Trump bending over backward for the meatpacking industry. Follow the money. One of Trump's biggest financial supporters, Ron Cameron, is one of the largest producers of chicken in the country.
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5. Easy to Twitter-shame random people on the street without masks but COVID-19 is being spread aggressively behind closed doors -- in meatpacking plants, prisons, etc.
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