Jared Kushner, Stephen Miller, Mike Pompeo and William Barr from left to right.
Photo: Soohee Cho / The Intercept, Getty Images
The four horsemen in the pandemic are rushing through Washington. Their names are Kushner, Miller, Pompeo and Barr.
They fulfill Donald Trump’s darkest hopes to turn the Covid-19 pandemic into a cultural war. At the same time, they are also looking for ways to capitalize on the country’s greatest public health crisis of the century to advance scams and conspiracy theories and punish Trump’s enemies.
At the same time, they ignore the real pandemic. Trump and his strike have decided to let America return.
They have wasted the time the Americans gave them to survive with Covid-19. It was an expensive time granted by people who overwhelmingly complied with state-level residence regulations for two months to allow the government to develop a serious national strategy to combat the health crisis and its economic downturn.
But Trump has betrayed this sacrifice by failing to make a coherent plan at all. He has surrendered to the virus, even as the number of American deaths rises rapidly to 100,000.
Instead, he has spent his time sitting in the White House watching cable news, trolling on his critics on Twitter and, in summary, shooting anyone in the federal government who is actually trying to prevent the pandemic from getting worse. The latest victim is Dr. Rick Bright, who filed the whistleblower’s complaint Tuesday after he was fired as director of the government’s biomedical research and development authority. Bright’s sin? He refused to get involved in the Trump administration’s inconsistent response to the virus, especially in its dangerous and ill-informed efforts to transfer the anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine to Covid-19 treatment simply because Trump had called it skin care.
While professionals like Bright are pushed aside, Trump has turned to ordinary suspects to make his offer.
His blond, thin-lipped api Jared Kushner has gone from creating destruction in the Middle East, where he was allegedly responsible for developing Trump’s “policy” in the region, creating destruction in the federal response to Covid. -19, thanks to his role, the spread of the backdoor coronavirus task force with incompetence and political preference. (Trump at the White House has an ad hoc working group at the front door, led by Vice President Mike Pence, but Trump closed the professional pandemic group at the 2018 National Security Council meeting.)
Kushner’s most consequential and deadly contribution to the government’s response came at an early stage of the crisis, when he assured the Trump press of an overestimated threat. This draws on Trump’s natural tendency to call Covid-19 a scam invented by the media, especially as he began to face criticism for failing to deal with a shortage of tests and other urgently needed medical equipment, including nursing and medical equipment. Because Trump took no action in the critical early days of the pandemic, the virus was able to spread to the United States.
Naturally, Kushner has now declared victory, although Covid-19 is expanding its fatal dimension across the nation. “We’re on the other side of the medical side of this,” Kushner told Fox News last week. “We have achieved all the necessary milestones. The federal government responded to the challenge, and this is a great success story. “
Stephen Miller, an endless forehead young man who serves as Trump’s mastery of xenophobia and the dark arts of nationalism, has also settled into the Covid-19 crisis, persuading the president to sign an executive order that will severely restrict immigration during the pandemic. . Of course, Miller wants the interim order to lead to the permanent, draconian repression of immigration he has long hoped for. During the pandemic, Miller has undergone dozens of minor changes to immigration policies and procedures, which can also lead to lasting changes.
Miller’s long-standing obsession with immigrants has already had a devastating effect on the nation’s ability to deal with a pandemic. Trump has played in the federal emergency agency’s budget to coordinate America’s disaster preparedness, while a growing portion of funding from its parent organization, the Department of Homeland Security, has been shifted to immigration and border control.
Mike Pompeo, a secretary of state whose body is like the champions of a bowling league in neighboring countries, helps Trump present theories of conspiracy about the origins of Covid-19. Pompeo has been thinking about the idea that the virus was made in a Chinese laboratory. In contrast, there is a consensus among most researchers, public health officials, and intelligence analysts around the world that the virus naturally came into contact with humans in China’s wet market.
While the exact origin of the virus is irrelevant to most Americans now struggling with Covid-19, Pompeo aims to drive this so-called Wuhan’s laboratory theory is to make Trump more familiar with his own failed crisis management. It can also be armed to reassure Trump that the government’s untreated handling of the pandemic is not Trump’s fault.
In recent days, Pompeo has provided a series of confused statements on the subject, probably because Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s largest infectious disease professional, has repeatedly and publicly drifted backwards, saying that scientific evidence shows that the virus is not man-made.
Over the weekend, Pompeo claimed there was strong evidence of the virus’s origin from a Chinese laboratory. On Wednesday, he said he was unsure, but added that there was “significant evidence” that the virus came from a Chinese laboratory.
His embarrassed statements show that Pompeo is trying to pass between wire experts and Trump, who has a long-standing reliance on conspiracy theories.
In the process, Pompeo has succeeded in hate-hating China – just one aspect of Trump-Pompeo’s wider renunciation of Covid-19’s international cooperation. Earlier this week, the Trump administration refused to join a virtual meeting of world leaders who pledged to join forces to develop vaccines and treatments.
Attorney William Barr, Tom Hagen of Trump, has also joined the President’s Covid-19 show. Barr is now threatening to turn to the Department of Justice with the heads of state who, in the absence of national leadership, have done the most to tackle the pandemic. In the process, Barr is aligning himself with the ugliest stance of the emerging American Cultural War. Trump has repeatedly tweeted his opposition to state detention orders and expressed support for protests by armed right-wingers in several state capitals calling for the abolition of detention orders. In another, Barr’s political feudy is shown to Trump, the Department of Justice is now threatening lawsuits against states on the basis of strict residence regulations, complaining that they violate people’s civil liberties.
But Barr’s claim to be a defender of civil liberties was weakened in his actions just weeks earlier when the administration tried to authorize the prime minister to ask a federal judge to freeze trials during a national emergency. Although a democratically accountable parliament will definitely not vote on a government proposal if it becomes law, it may mean that detainees can be detained without charge until the end of the crisis.
Covid-19 has been anything but a public health crisis for Trump and his fins. As if to highlight this, Trump said earlier this week that the Pence Coronavir Task Force will be disbanded soon. He quickly changed course, saying the task force will remain active but focus on reopening the economy. In other words, it’s an addition to Trump’s remake campaign.
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