Well before Bolton’s book arrived, we already knew the single most important fact about the Trump presidency and Trump himself: He and the Republicans who surround him are willing to sacrifice tens of thousands of American lives if their deaths might somehow promote his reelection.
The latest attempts by Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to pretend that the deadly coronavirus is now, as the president said, “fading away,” only provide fresh evidence of their bloody perfidy. If the present infection trends continue — intensified by events like Trump’s Tulsa rally — then we will have buried more than 200,000 Americans before Election Day. Continue reading.