We need a truth commission to consider if Trump's lies about COVID-19 are criminally negligent Opi

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We need a truth commission to consider if Trump’s lies about COVID-19 are criminally negligent | Opinion
BY ANDRES OPPENHEIMER
JANUARY 29, 2021 04:45 PM, UPDATED 10 HOURS 4 MINUTES AGO

The Pan American Health Organization has made the chilling announcement: The number of COVID-19 deaths in the Americas has surpassed 1 million — nearly half of all pandemic deaths in the world. It makes me wonder whether former President Trump and the leaders of Mexico and Brazil, who consistently minimized the pandemic, should be held accountable for what could be considered criminal negligence.

What they have done by refusing to wear face masks and downplaying the pandemic during much of last year, long after the World Health Organization had publicly labeled COVID-19 a deadly disease, may have caused many preventable deaths.

Think about it: The Americas account for 10 percent of the world’s population, and for nearly 50 percent of the world’s COVID-19 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center figures.

It may not be a coincidence that the three countries with the most COVID-19 deaths in the world — the United States, Brazil and Mexico — were led by presidents who downplayed the pandemic.

What Trump, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and Mexico’s president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador did was political malpractice at best, criminal negligence at worse. They had been told by the world’s leading experts how deadly the disease was, but ignored their advice for political reasons.

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1. I've said this all along.

While trump campaigned people died for his lack of even recognizing the round the corner lies he told all of America.