There’s plenty of blame to go around for the current situation and the whole crisis, and FDA gets its fair share but other countries that also haven’t had a vaccine have managed to not get so thunderously corpse-ridden as we have, & that reality starts and ends with the president
So, if you want to be mad at someone, maybe make it the guy who instead of using his considerable powers in his closing weeks in office to make life better for people is instead going on a killing spree of federal inmates & also trying to cancel democracy on the way out the door
Shortly before the execution on Thursday night, Angela Moore, a former prosecuto who was involved in ensuring Brandon Bernard’s death sentence, told The Daily Beast: “I want to say that the system has failed Brandon. I failed…” thedailybeast.com/unmoved-trump-…
“...The rule of law and the judiciary has failed. Our government is committing legal murder in retribution of murder.”
Trump made the conscious decision, following multiple conversations over the past day or so, to have Brandon Bernard be put to death. A look behind the scenes, as advocates tried to convince him and his WH to do otherwise: thedailybeast.com/unmoved-trump-…
It is a unique feeling working on a story on deadline while simultaneously watching the clock constantly and waiting for likely confirmation that someone has been put to death.
As far as I can tell, the scheduled 6pm et execution did not happen, as his legal team waits on the Supreme Court
Doing this story yesterday was extra depressing because you have three layers of tragedy: You gotta read details of a truly horrific double homicide of people begging & praying for their lives. You hear stories of an accomplice who seems to have reformed & whose prosecutors...
...seemed to have kept evidence under wraps that could have spared him the death penalty. (One of the prosecutors responsible for ensuring he got the death penalty, along with 5 jurors, now say the inmate should live.) & thirdly, this is set against the backdrop/foreground of...
...a president and administration that is currently on a killing spree of federal inmates, for which there is no real political benefit but they’re doing it anyway.
"The directive, which the Pentagon’s White House liaison Joshua Whitehouse sent on Wednesday afternoon, removes 11 high-profile advisors from the Defense Policy Board, including former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger & Madeleine Albright” foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/25/pen…
I cannot think of greater emblem of the Trump era than Scott Atlas.
I mean this whole heartedly and this is not meant as a compliment
You could give me as much fame, media attention, career advancement, and flattery from the leader of the free world as I could stomach. Give me a lifetime’s worth of it. I could still not imagine any price so hefty that it would compel me to do a fraction of what he did.