Yes, emphatically YES!

There was a dramatic shift in tone from the Trump White House during the early COVID days once it was realized that the virus outbreak centered on urban areas.

And it was incredibly obvious to anybody paying attention.

No, he didn't "let people die".

He actively contributed to those deaths.

Right wing media spent the entire pandemic fighting against distancing, masks, vaccines, against science. And pretending horse dewormer was a miracle solution for everything. But it turns out reality isn't a political opinion, and millions of people died because of those lies.

When humanity was fighting against covid, Republicans were fighting on the virus' side

I can't get over how 1.1 million Americans died and people are acting like it was bullshit.

Yes. Kushner also stole medical equipment and PPE to sell it to other nations.

His administration stole supplies meant for liberal states and gave them to conservatives.

So, ugh , yes.

Yes. And he would do it again.

I wouldn't say for political purposes. I'd say for lazy, ignorant narcissism-yet-inferiority-complex (call it self-loathing), mindless knee-jerk flailing with a five-seconds attention span that resets every five seconds.

Attempt at lazy instant gratification - RESET - Attempt at lazy instant gratification - RESET - Attempt at lazy instant gratification - RESET...
Over and over again. A million times over. Never-ending until that parasitic creature dies. With no care to the death and suffering any of this could bring to those "inferior to me"... and EVERYONE is inferior to that pig, EVERYONE will eventually be thrown under the bus. All for a five-second knee-jerkoff hollow satisfaction.

That's not quite politics. It's something much sicker than that, if you can wrap your head around such a thing. The politics are just the fucking wallpaper on the dungeon.

When you side with Trump, you're siding with Genocide Denial.

Why is this even phrased as a question?

If somebody can be vaccinated for a serious communicable disease but refuses, they’re basically telling me that they’re an idiot, and/or they don’t really care about others (despite whatever arguments they may make to the contrary). That isn’t someone I want in my social circle.

If someone has demonstrated that they don’t care whether I live or die, I don’t feel bad for ignoring their phone call at 2 AM.

Yes. All billionaires do this every single day they don't donate the majority of their wealth.

It's not even a debatable point. The fact that it's presented as such is irritating.

Yes, he did. Saved you a click.

He did, and it cost him the election. I know more than a few people who voted for him the first time, but switched to Biden due to Trump's COVID denial.

Its crazy that he got rid of the folks monitoring for that type of thing in like oct/nov 2019. I mean if you tried to pick a time to fuck us maximally you could not have done better.

Short answer:Yes Long answer: Yes, Absolutely.

This might be a hot take, but I think Trump is too dumb himself to have done this the way the article frames it. He is EMPHATICALLY responsible for the deaths of many, and for varied reasons, but he's simply not intelligent or thoughtful enough to have planned anything further than a few days ahead for political points.

His puppet masters though... different story. I 100% believe that the massive pieces of shit surrounding him manipulated him into doing some truly horrific things that led to more deaths than needed.

You really think a racist/classist turd like Stephen Miller didn't realize that the poor were obviously more at risk of infection and survival, and that the majority of those infected and dying would be in urban areas which largely vote Democrat? That little soulness asshat is probably more culpable for anything truly devious, like the kids in cages thing. He was gleefully laughing when asked about it the first time that was outed.

Pretty obvious Yes to the headline.

Or as Trump said, “it is what it is.”