He even lied about how sick COVID made him, and he lied by omission when he and his wife got secretly vaccinated while he was still president and hid that fact from the American public.
And now multiple Republican governors around the country are following in his footsteps, promoting their own statewide versions of Trump's death cult.
Greg Abbott's decision to open Texas up, for example, will inevitably lead to thousands of deaths and tens or perhaps even hundreds of thousands of permanent disabilities. He has blood on his hands, just like Trump.
Similarly, a handful of rightwing activist groups that are heavily funded by business lobbying organizations and rightwing billionaires are pushing hard to get vulnerable people back to work and juice their profits.
They, too, are intentionally taking actions that will lead to disease, death and disability just for their own personal benefit and profit.
Sweden tried this for a short while, listening to a deluded rightwing economist, but they figured out that it was killing their people and was stupid policy...and they stopped.
Here in America, these Republicans have not only doubled down on deadly policy, but they and their rightwing "news" outlets continue to encourage people to engage in risky behavior that is killing Americans.
In the largest sense, this is nothing new. Almost to a person, these same people have been denying that burning fossil fuels are altering our planet's atmosphere leading to wildfires, floods, droughts and other extreme weather events that also are killing people.
It's like the Republican Party has become a death cult. Except that they're not doing these things because they revel in people dying; they're doing it because it makes them and their donors money.
Normally, when people take money to kill other people, we put them in prison for the rest of their lives.
We do that in large part to prevent future people from thinking that making a profit by being hit men, arsonists, or killing people in other ways in exchange for money or power is acceptable behavior.
We even have a slightly less severe category of penalty, "negligent homicide," for people who don't directly take actions that they intended to kill people, but screw up in ways that have that effect anyway. Like texting while driving, leading to a deadly car accident.
Today Americans are dying at the rate of around 2,000 a day, and nobody has yet held Donald Trump accountable in any consequential way for his actions that killed over a half-million human beings.
There's no discussion in the media about, "How do we hold him accountable?"
There's no debate about what the penalty should be, how long he should be in jail, how much the families of the victims of this pandemic should be able to sue him for damages.
And, because there's no accountability for Trump's murderous lies and behaviors, political hustlers like Greg Abbott feel that it's just fine to take huge contributions from rightwing billionaires and business groups who want them to "re-open the economy," which will lead directly to thousands more dead Americans. Abbot didn't even bother consulting his science advisors, according to press reports, before making the decision and the announcement.
And now multiple Republican governors around the country are following in his footsteps, promoting their own statewide versions of Trump's death cult.
Greg Abbott's decision to open Texas up, for example, will inevitably lead to thousands of deaths and tens or perhaps even hundreds of thousands of permanent disabilities. He has blood on his hands, just like Trump.
Similarly, a handful of rightwing activist groups that are heavily funded by business lobbying organizations and rightwing billionaires are pushing hard to get vulnerable people back to work and juice their profits.
Sweden tried this for a short while, listening to a deluded rightwing economist, but they figured out that it was killing their people and was stupid policy...and they stopped.
Here in America, these Republicans have not only doubled down on deadly policy, but they and their rightwing "news" outlets continue to encourage people to engage in risky behavior that is killing Americans.
In the largest sense, this is nothing new. Almost to a person, these same people have been denying that burning fossil fuels are altering our planet's atmosphere leading to wildfires, floods, droughts and other extreme weather events that also are killing people.
It's like the Republican Party has become a death cult. Except that they're not doing these things because they revel in people dying; they're doing it because it makes them and their donors money.
Normally, when people take money to kill other people, we put them in prison for the rest of their lives.
We do that in large part to prevent future people from thinking that making a profit by being hit men, arsonists, or killing people in other ways in exchange for money or power is acceptable behavior.
We even have a slightly less severe category of penalty, "negligent homicide," for people who don't directly take actions that they intended to kill people, but screw up in ways that have that effect anyway. Like texting while driving, leading to a deadly car accident.
Today Americans are dying at the rate of around 2,000 a day, and nobody has yet held Donald Trump accountable in any consequential way for his actions that killed over a half-million human beings.
There's no discussion in the media about, "How do we hold him accountable?"
There's no debate about what the penalty should be, how long he should be in jail, how much the families of the victims of this pandemic should be able to sue him for damages.
And, because there's no accountability for Trump's murderous lies and behaviors, political hustlers like Greg Abbott feel that it's just fine to take huge contributions from rightwing billionaires and business groups who want them to "re-open the economy," which will lead directly to thousands more dead Americans. Abbot didn't even bother consulting his science advisors, according to press reports, before making the decision and the announcement.
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