1/ From Heather Richardson’s newsletter today: “The president put his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in charge of the nation’s response to the pandemic. Kushner sidelined career officials who knew how to source medical supplies, for example, in favor of young volunteers...

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2/ ...from investment banks and consulting firms. The administration touted what its leaders called an innovative public-private partnership to respond to the country’s needs, but a report from Representative Katie Porter (D-CA) documented that as late as March 2, ...
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3/... .the administration was urging American businesses to take advantage of the booming market in personal protective equipment (PPE) to export masks, ventilators, and PPE to other countries. Porter’s office examined export records to show that in February 2020...,
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4/ ... ‘the value of U.S. mask exports to China was 1094% higher than the 2019 monthly average.’ Meanwhile, American health care providers were wearing garbage bags, and people were sewing their own masks.”
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5/ 560,000 Americans have died of Covid, sacrificed at the altar of private enterprise. Trump’s admin knowingly allowed hundreds of thousands of people to die. Yet, like many architects of unjust wars like Viet Nam & Iraq, they then retire from government to live lives of luxury.
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6/There should be a National Commission to research the US govt’s criminal neglect of the American people during a pandemic that’s already killed 560,000. This will be a stain on our history - not just the tragedy of the pandemic but the crassness of a government that didn’t care
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Kushner should be investigated ... prosecuted ... and sent to jail for his role in this!
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You have to acknowledge that 40% of all US Covid deaths came directly from the nursing home policies of 5 specific state governors. If you take the overall death rate seriously as a metric of failed policy, that’s where you start, and work backwards from there
Replying to @marwilliamson
When will people be held accountable for anything in this country? The intentionality of this is infuriating.
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And then Ivanka trademarked her own line of coffins ⚰ www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.…
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Replying to @marwilliamson
The elderly, poor, and people of color were selectively targeted by government officials. The aim was to assist in the destruction of our American democracy, part of an insurrection. This is the definition of genocide.
Replying to @marwilliamson
100% agree that all injustice should be held accountable 100%. However, it’s not at all accurate that people died because they didn’t have PPE or that they died because the PPE was being sent to China...The US dug their grave by not taking goods from China. We are happy to supply
Too little, too late, woo woo wanda . You have far less than no credibility.
Replying to @marwilliamson
We had a bad administration for a while. But we also had good people in government who have given us the fastest vaccine rollout in the world. What is the value of praise?