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When Ebola virus struck west Africa in 2014, Trump called for travel ban to African nations
Trump weaponized the Ebola epidemic to enflame mindless fear - and to portray President Obama as "soft on Africans."
Fox News contributors made more explicit the message: Obama is spreading Ebola because he loves Africans more than Americans foxnews.com/opinion/ebola-… (You'll notice no byline on piece. The author, Keith Ablow, was fired from Fox in 2017 after sex abuse allegations.)
The only good news in this China coronavirus outbreak is that we don't have a Donald Trump out there exploiting bigotry to incite fear to defame a president who traces some ancestors to elsewhere on the same continent 6,000 km away from where the disease is centred
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And for the record, me on Ebola in 2014
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