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Trump Thinks Pandemic is His ‘Biggest Decision’: Not True, Again.
President Trump’s biggest decision has already been made. He choked. He ignored the facts. He chose to concern himself with his own self interest.
Let’s get to the facts: First, the Governors not the President decided what each state will do regarding ‘opening up the economy.’ Trump can say whatever his hunch/ guts/ mind thinks and he can influence the easily persuaded in the Fox News Universe, but he cannot legally change social distancing.
Second, Trump can take whatever ‘miracle drug’ he wants. He can say ‘What do you have to lose?’ In our case many reports have already surfaced that his organizations has something to gain financially. He likely didn’t know that, but hey, when you do not divest yourself or put your business in a blind trust as the Emoluments clause in The Constitution mandates then what are Americans to think? Of course, he has been allowed to get away with this by his Republican cronies in government.
Third, hydroxychloroquine is not the singular answer according to experts Jonathan Chait in the New York Magazine 4/12/2020 just indicated several pressing facts: “Trump’s former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb wrote a Wall Street Journal column urging the rapid development of coronavirus treatments, citing several promising examples, but conspicuously omitting the…
