In one week, he threatened to cut off U.S. funding to the WHO, touted an unproven Covid-19 cure, and fired the watchdog overseeing the congressional bailout.
The Signal: Trump’s ongoing effort to deflect all blame for the administration’s hopeless response to the Covid-19 outbreak onto others. This week’s enemy of choice? The World Health Organization and his own inspectors general.
Despite the fact that the WHO has been warning the world of the unprecedented danger of an uncontrollable pandemic for more than two months, Trump chose this week, with U.S. deaths rapidly rising, to accuse the international body of having dropped the ball and of being “China-centric.” Most outrageously, he then threatened to cut the organization’s U.S. funding. What better time to defund the world’s leading health organization than during the peak of a pandemic?
Trump also continued to tout the miracle-cure benefits of an anti-malarial drug that his own infectious disease experts say is still unproven (even if potentially promising) for Covid-19 patients. Surprise, surprise, it turns out that the grifter-president has a financial stake in the company that makes the drug he keeps touting on TV…
To read the entire article from The Nation, click https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/coronavirus-trump-who-watchdog/
