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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,879 posts)
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 08:15 PM Apr 2020

Trump's Deadly Search for a Scapegoat

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.

Trump’s 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 department’s 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 children’s lives and keeping the world safe from pandemics like this one.

Trump says that he is cutting the funds while his administration reviews the WHO’s handling of the coronavirus. His own pandemic preparedness plan, which he characteristically has failed to implement, called for building support for the WHO — because it’s a critical player to keep Americans safe.

https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-deadly-search-scapegoat-190620046.html

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Trump's Deadly Search for a Scapegoat (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2020 OP
Trump's always looking for something Ohioboy Apr 2020 #1
Too Bad for Clusterfuck there's Video. Cha Apr 2020 #2
Just look in the mirror, Orange Furrer. There's your scapegoat! abqtommy Apr 2020 #3
Madeleine Albright said that is a sign of a fascist. Hotler Apr 2020 #4

Ohioboy

(3,240 posts)
1. Trump's always looking for something
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 08:49 PM
Apr 2020

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!

Hotler

(11,412 posts)
4. Madeleine Albright said that is a sign of a fascist.
Wed Apr 15, 2020, 09:30 PM
Apr 2020

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.

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