One of the reasons Donald Trump should never again be allowed within 1,000 feet of the White House, or perhaps even the District of Columbia, is that he’s a wannabe dictator who literally sicced a mob on the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of a free and fair election, which he is still contesting. Another is that he’s mentally unstable and thinks that he may be president again by August. But setting all of that aside, there’s also the fact that he was one of the worst presidents in modern history, whose actions led to the needless deaths of countless Americans from a deadly virus. And he apparently wanted to send some of the people infected with that virus to a prison synonymous with human rights abuses. Yes, really!
Per The Washington Post:
Guantánamo Bay, of course, is a military prison established by George W. Bush in 2002 following the 9/11 attacks; its operations are considered to have breached human rights thanks to all the torture and indefinite detention without trial. Barack Obama pledged to close the camp, but Congress passed legislation prohibiting Guantánamo’s detainees from being placed within the U.S. In January 2018, Trump signed an executive order to keep the prison open, saying in a speech: “Terrorists who do things like place bombs in civilian hospitals are evil. When possible, we annihilate them. When necessary, we must be able to detain and question them. But we must be clear: Terrorists are not merely criminals. They are unlawful enemy combatants. And when captured overseas, they should be treated like the terrorists they are.”
In other Trump-publishing news, he’ll likely continue to spread his lies about the election in more than a dozen forthcoming books, according to Axios:
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June 22, 2021 at 04:16AM
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/donald-trump-coronavirus-guantanamo-bay
Not a Joke: Trump Wanted to Send COVID-Infected Americans to Guantánamo Bay - Vanity Fair
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