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Star Member DonViejo (60,443 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215547137New book offers fresh details about chaos, conflicts inside Trump's pandemic responseAt one point, the president mused about transferring infected American citizens in Asia to Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in CubaIn the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, as White House officials debated whether to bring infected Americans home for care, President Donald Trump suggested his own plan for where to send them, eager to suppress the numbers on U.S. soil.“Don’t we have an island that we own?” the president reportedly asked those assembled in the Situation Room in February 2020, before the U.S. outbreak would explode. “What about Guantánamo?”“We import goods,” Trump specified, lecturing his staff. “We are not going to import a virus.”Aides were stunned, and when Trump brought it up a second time, they quickly scuttled the idea, worried about a backlash over quarantining American tourists on the same Caribbean base where the United States holds terrorism suspects.
greenjar_01 (4,911 posts) 1. He's such a deeply stupid idiot
Cracklin Charlie (9,852 posts) 2. A cruel, selfish one at that.Nazi
Star Member Hugin (28,409 posts) 3. I will clearly state, once again...What response? The genocide part?The profiteering?The lying?The politicizing?Which part?
In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, as White House officials debated whether to bring infected Americans home for care, President Donald Trump suggested his own plan for where to send them, eager to suppress the numbers on U.S. soil.
