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Trump’s unleashing of the Corona virus, from his conducting of super spreader events to his decision to make no effort to curtail it’s havoc, is a terrorist attack on America.
To establish my point, first what is terrorism? The FBI website defines Domestic Terrorism as “Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.”
The European Union defines Terrorism as “…largely of serious offences against persons and property which: given their nature or context, may seriously damage a country or an international organization where committed with the aim of: seriously intimidating a population; or unduly compelling a Government or international organization to perform or abstain from performing any act; or seriously destabilizing or destroying the fundamental political, constitutional, economic or social structures of a country or an international organization.”
Jared Kushner was in the process of developing a nationwide testing program which could have helped the U.S. match the rest of the world in a semi-competent response to this global pandemic. This program was abandoned, with the political calculation that it would primarily impact ‘blue states’ and that the resultant harm…
