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[ [link removed] ]45's Falsehoods and Failures: Weekly Coverage of Trump During COVID-19

PFAW Member,

Donald Trump’s cruelty, corruption, and leadership failures are deeply
connected to the anger and pain millions of Americans feel following the
fatal anti-Black violence and police brutality against Ahmaud Arbery,
Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, and others. It’s important to
understand the ways that the pandemic – and Trump’s response to it – have
[ [link removed] ]disproportionately hurt the Black community. As Zinzi Bailey, a social
epidemiologist, [ [link removed] ]said, “The stories about the protests are also the
stories about COVID-19 and racism.”

Even though Trump is not singularly responsible for the scope of systemic
[ [link removed] ]racism in this country, his dangerous lies and failures during the
coronavirus crisis have undoubtedly inflamed anti-Black racism, and have
[ [link removed] ]exacerbated the disproportionate harm that [ [link removed] ]the pandemic has caused
to Black Americans.

This week, Trump’s falsehoods and failures continued:

* No list of Trump’s failures this week would be complete without noting
the appalling events of Tuesday evening, when Trump tasked Attorney
General William Barr with [ [link removed] ]forcefully [ [link removed] ]clearing peaceful
protesters from Lafayette Park for a Trump photo-op in front of a
church. (He did not wear a mask.) Trump described the images of
National Guard and police forces enacting violence against the
protestors as [ [link removed] ]“a beautiful thing to watch.”
* Despite the [ [link removed] ]high risk posed by packing an auditorium with 50,000
people, [ [link removed] ]Trump pulled the nomination portion of the Republican
convention out of North Carolina after the state’s Democratic governor
Roy Cooper held firm that the [ [link removed] ]GOP would need to limit crowd
capacity to make it safe during the pandemic.
* In the midst of all his other bad actions this week, Trump continued
to [ [link removed] ]assail the [ [link removed] ]legitimacy of voting by mail, despite its
[ [link removed] ]success in more states as their election security measures are
expanded. Trump’s assault has been so forceful that the GOP has
started to worry that his relentless criticism of and [ [link removed] ]lies
surrounding mail-in ballots might [ [link removed] ]harm his reelection prospects in
November.
* Trump appears [ [link removed] ]ready to “move past” dealing with the coronavirus
crisis, even though confirmed cases continue to [ [link removed] ]rise across the
country. On Sunday, Adm. Brett Giroir confirmed that he will be
standing down from his pandemic-appointed role and that there is
[ [link removed] ]no plan to replace him as the head of coronavirus testing. Dr.
Anthony Fauci also said on Sunday that he hasn’t spoken to Trump
[ [link removed] ]in weeks. The White House’s [ [link removed] ]coronavirus task force has been
[ [link removed] ]“sharply curtailed” while millions of Americans still need
[ [link removed] ]unemployment and other assistance. Additionally, there is no plan
to lessen the [ [link removed] ]estimated $8 trillion cost of the pandemic through
2030.

President Barack Obama posted an op-ed in [ [link removed] ]Medium on Sunday, in which
he wrote, “These past few months have been hard and dispiriting … the
fear, sorrow, uncertainty, and hardship of a pandemic have been compounded
by tragic reminders that prejudice and inequality still shape so much of
American life.” He continued to encourage Americans to channel our
heightened emotions into concrete action, including “[electing] government
officials who are responsive to our demands.”

Trump is not responsive to the demands of anyone other than his far-right
base, and his actions this week have only highlighted the narrowness of
his focus. He has no place in the next chapter of the American story.

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The [ [link removed] ]Falsehoods and Failures series will appear every Friday on our
blog. [ [link removed] ]You can find last week's post here. For ongoing coverage of
Trump and the Right Wing's response to the coronavirus, check out PFAW's
[ [link removed] ]Right Wing Watch.

Thanks as always for your ongoing support – stay safe and healthy!

– Sarah, PFAW

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