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Thousands of Americans would be alive today if President Donald Trump had spent more time listening to the World Health Organization instead of trying to destroy it.
Trumps announcement that he will halt U.S. funding for the WHO just as the world is facing a raging pandemic is a dangerous attempt to find a scapegoat for his own failings. It is like taking away a fire departments trucks in the middle of a blaze.
Many Americans know nothing about the WHO, but its worldwide budget (of which the United States pays about one-fifth) is less than that of some American hospital centers. Yet it is charged with fighting Ebola and polio, saving childrens lives and keeping the world safe from pandemics like this one.
Trump says that he is cutting the funds while his administration reviews the WHOs handling of the coronavirus. His own pandemic preparedness plan, which he characteristically has failed to implement, called for building support for the WHO because its a critical player to keep Americans safe.
https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-deadly-search-scapegoat-190620046.html
Ohioboy
(3,240 posts)If he's not looking for a way to tie Russian involvement in the 2016 election to the Ukraine, he's looking for the imaginary 3 million illegals that voted against him in the popular election. While those "investigations" go nowhere he gets Billy Bar to go after whoever he thinks is against him in the "deep state". It's past time we had a president that knows reality, does the job and takes responsibility!
Cha
(297,090 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)Hotler
(11,412 posts)She said that fascist always look to make someone else the fall guy, it's never their fault, they are being picked on. She is not a perfect Secretary of State but, she grew up in a fascist regime and knows how to spot a fascist when she sees one. Her 2018 book Fascism a Warning is a good reference book.