It should fill you with visceral rage that the man masquerading as President not only congratulates himself for the utterly catastrophic state of our nation, but did everything possible to decimate and sabotage what Obama implemented to protect us.
This included:
—An entire division of the NSC dedicated specifically to detecting and coordinating the federal response to pandemics
—A program called PREDICT engineered to detect novel coronavirus strains in China before they spread
—A well funded WHO, HHS, and CDC
Trump isn’t just responsible for the 162,000 Americans who’ve died from COVID because of his incompetent response. He made sure we COULDN’T respond properly by gutting every program and agency we relied on to do so. Then made things worse at every turn. foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/31/cor…
Obama set up a permanent epidemic monitoring and command group inside the WH National Security Council (NSC) and another in the Dept of Homeland Security (DHS)—both of which followed the scientific & public health leads of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the diplomatic advice of the State Department.
Trump had his National Security Advisor John Bolton dismantle all of this in 2018, and fire all of its employees.
So Trump:
—Dismantled our Pandemic Response Office
—Fired all employees
—Eliminated the PREDICT program
—Ignored the pandemic for the first 10 WEEKS
—Continued selling millions of tons of PPE to China until MARCH
—Put completely unqualified people like Kushner & Pence in charge
And what has he done since?
—Spread deadly misinformation about the virus daily
—Politicize basic safety precautions like masks
—Push for states to reopen before their case rates fell to even remotely safe levels
—Make governors bid against one another for critical supplies
He has:
—Withdrawn us from the World Health Organization
—Defunded the CDC, HHS, and NIH
—Gaslit the country about how the virus is “under control,” “going away on its own,” and “will magically disappear” (ALL LETHALLY FALSE)
—Pushed to reopen schools while cases/deaths EXPLODE
It’s not just that he ignored the Obama team’s playbook. He did the exact OPPOSITE of EVERYTHING they suggested.
If there were a playbook on “Trump’s pandemic response,” it would read like a sociopaths guide to ensuring mass murder/genocide. Because that’s what he’s done.
Timeline shows Trump:
—Refused to do anything for the first 5 weeks because he didn’t want to “spook the stock market” (and hurt his reelection)
—Refused to do anything for the next 5 weeks because he didn’t want to “disrupt his trade deal with China” (and hurt his reelection)
This timeline not only proves that Trump is responsible for TENS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN DEATHS, it reveals that he got his BS talking point about “A lot of people think it goes away in April with the heat” FROM THE PRESIDENT OF CHINA #TrumpMadeInChina slate.com/news-and-polit…
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No, Ghislaine Maxwell was NOT granted immunity. Here’s the truth.
People are misinterpreting the Trump DOJ giving Ghislaine Maxwell “limited immunity.” What she got is called proffer protection — and it’s not what you think. Let’s break it down (THREAD 🧵)
“Proffer immunity” (aka “Queen for a Day”) means that she could talk to the DOJ and they generally can’t use her words against her — UNLESS she lies or commits perjury. It’s not immunity. It’s a legal safety net for one conversation.
Maxwell met with DOJ officials for 9 hours over 2 days. She didn’t plead the Fifth. She cooperated. But her lawyer confirmed: “No deal (was offered or accepted). No immunity (was offered or accepted). No promises (were made).” It was a conversation, not a plea or a pardon.
The official @WhiteHouse account just posted this fanfic meme of Trump strutting through fireworks and money, flanked by bald eagles, bragging about deportations and “memes.”
Six months in, and the fascism isn’t creeping. It’s sprinting — and it brought a fucking emoji pack.
Let’s talk about the real “accomplishments” of this regime. Not the propaganda. Not the cosplay.
The actual consequences of this unhinged cult taking power again.
Spoiler alert: it’s not a “Golden Age.” It’s a dystopian hellscape with a laugh track.
✅ DEPORTATIONS ARE BACK
But not just that. They’re being celebrated from the podium.
Human lives reduced to punchlines in a meme. Due process eliminated. Families destroyed, asylum seekers turned away, and ICE unleashed like a paramilitary goon squad.
WOW. A woman named Sarah from VA called in to @jaketapper on C-SPAN and called him out for “doing a great disservice to the American people” in his relentless attacks on Joe Biden’s cognition—who served America honorably and competently—while being SILENT on Trump’s unfitness 🔥
I will show you @jaketapper’s response to that call, but I clipped it deliberately so that I could preface it by saying that everything she said is 1000% CORRECT and everything he says in response is 1000% BULLSHIT. Take a listen, then I’ll show you @dpakman’s take and give mine.
@jaketapper @dpakman .@dpakman and I are pretty much in agreement in terms of our takes on this EXCEPT FOR ONE ABSOLUTELY MAJOR THING (see if you can figure out what it is before I reveal it in the next tweet).