Should Trump Answer for Covid-19?

Until yesterday, as much as I dislike the guy, I never thought that Trump was in any way a threat to this country, for the simple reason that when you got past the bluster and the bullshit, what you had was a President who seemed to sit around watching television all day long.

In other words, he didn’t hurt the country because he didn’t really do anything, okay?

I no longer hold such a benign view of Trump after reading the report issued by the House Select Committee on how he tried to push hydroxychloroquine as a remedy for Covid-19. You can download and read the report right here.

Trump and his minions began touting hydroxychloroquine when the alt-right began making noise about the government mandating vaccinations against Covid-19. Even though Trump was pushing this phony ‘warp speed’ plan to have vaccinations on the market asap, he also needed to cover his ass with the resistance to lockdowns and mandates by the MAGA crowd.

There was only one little problem with this brilliant idea, however. And the problem was that not only didn’t hydroxychloroquine provide any immunity against the ‘Chinese flu,’ it actually made things worse for some Covid victims who ingested the drug.

When the CDC’s main man Fauci came out against substituting patent medicine for real medicine, the battle was…