GOP giving Trump a pass on coronavirus-infected aircraft carrier after spending years on Benghazi: Former senator

AlterNet logoFormer senator Claire McCaskill called out Republican lawmakers for caring more about four deaths at Benghazi than thousands of deaths already from the coronavirus.

The MSNBC contributor told “Morning Joe” that President Donald Trump’s inaction in the early stages of the outbreak had cost potentially hundreds of thousands of lives, and was currently endangering hundreds of sailors’ lives on the USS Theodore Roosevelt.

“Delay is deadly,” she said, “and this president was in charge and was part of a government that delayed a response, particularly as it related to testing, and as a result, we are going to see thousands and thousands of more people die.” Continue reading.