AMERICAN KOMPROMAT

 Again, from American Kompromat....

"Notices about COVID-19 had appeared in the president's daily briefings (PDB) as early as January 2020, but, as was usually the case with PDBs, Trump didn't bother to read them. He had long since disregarded the entire intelligence apparatus as 'deep state', and was preparing to do exactly what he had done with the Justice Department by installing a loyal lieutenant who would put forth exactly the kind of self-serving intelligence he wanted.

And when it came to the pandemic, despite repeated warnings from various officials, Trump EXEMPTED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT from overseeing the fight against it, and instead delegated it to the 50 states and 100's of municipalities. The resulting patchwork quilt of wildly varying strategies allowed the virus to bounce back and forth from one state to another, as it spread throughout the country for month after month after month.

It was a death cult. Trump suggested injecting bleach as a cure. He asserted that the virus would disappear 'magically'. He taunted those who wore protective masks as being 'politically correct'. He urged governors to open up their states......

In other words, America was in crisis and there was no coordinated national health policy. And worse, like a slow-motion Reichstag fire, the disease itself was being weaponized and politicized by Trump and hi followers. The pandemic provided cover for Trump and Barr to consolidate power. In rapid succession, they fired no fewer than 5 Inspectors General, cut back on sharing intelligence with between Congress and the director of National Intelligence, appointed a Trump mega donor as head of the U.S. Postal Service, who issued orders to destroy equipment, removed mail drop boxes, and slowed down mail delivery - all to help Trump's reelection chances.

As a result, by August, the United States had more casualties than any country in the world. More than 6.3 million Americans had been confirmed infected. At one point, Florida, with 21 million people, had twice as many new cases per day - about 10,000 - as the entire European Union, with its 446 million people.

...and on and on.