President Donald J. Trump participates in a video teleconference with governors to discuss a partnership to prepare, mitigate, and respond to the coronavirus outbreak Thursday, March 19, 2020, at the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)
Since the election of Donald Trump, America’s been served some eyebrow-raising claims.
The trend was certainly in full force Monday, courtesy of an MSNBC contributor.
Prompted by a tweet alleging the President has used coronavirus controversy over hydroxychloroquine as some sort of cover-up, author Sarah Kendzior didn’t hold back.
She asserted the “Trump crime cult wanted people to die, and they want many more people to die.”
The original post went as follows:
“I wonder if the whole hydroxychloroquine dust-up isn’t another red herring. Trump is a master at manipulating the direction of the conversation. Every time he wants to cover something up, he draws attention to something else. He is pulling a LOT of attention to a generic drug.”
I wonder if the whole hydroxychloroquine dust-up isn't another red herring. Trump is a master at manipulating the direction of the conversation. Every time he wants to cover something up, he draws attention to something else. He is pulling a LOT of attention to a generic drug.
— Michael in Orlando (@CFLMichael) April 6, 2020
“Another”?
Sarah responded thusly:
“Trump’s trying to convince people that he wants it cured and that, should a cure appear, it would be accessible to all. So the media focus on the proposed drug instead of the cold reality — which is that the Trump crime cult wanted people to die, and they want many more to die.”
Trump's trying to convince people that he wants it cured and that, should a cure appear, it would be accessible to all. So the media focus on the proposed drug instead of the cold reality — which is that the Trump crime cult wanted people to die, and they want many more to die.
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) April 6, 2020
Pegging a person’s secret thoughts or hidden motives can often seem a bold choice. But I suppose “bold” makes for better TV.
Moving on, Sarah elaborated:
“They usually have two goals:
1) Short term scam profits
2) Longer term disaster capitalist destruction.Basically, they’ll make a little money on the side while committing mass murder.”
They usually have two goals: 1) short term scam profits 2) longer term disaster capitalist destruction. Basically they'll make a little money on the side while committing mass murder.
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) April 6, 2020
Not all on Twitter were convinced:
I urge you not to overestimate here. Conspiracies are fun, but they often fall flat. It’s possible to not support trump and also not think (without proof) he wants millions dead.
— AstrO (@Mi_Astronauta) April 6, 2020
Armchair psychologists picking Repubs/Dems brains isn’t new, doesn’t help. Didn’t support DT, vote mostly Dem for Decades. Trump doesn’t want millions dead. #Covid_19 is awful, it’ll get worse, then it’ll get better, and we push forward.
— AstrO (@Mi_Astronauta) April 6, 2020
Of course you’d have a blue checkmark. It’s a prerequisite for such an insane tweet.
— Squip Fitch (@SquipFitch) April 7, 2020
Seek psychiatric help.
— Cheryl B (@Cheryl707) April 6, 2020
— Virgil (@Virgilrock) April 7, 2020
One user even provided a chart:
https://twitter.com/Jamisen/status/1247293929772457985
Sarah’s certainly not alone in her viewpoint among those who’ve been on camera post-2016.
Cases in point:
“‘New York Times’ ‘Reporter’ on MSNBC: Donald Trump Wants to Round Up People and Murder Them”
“In Light of Kavanaugh, Nut on MSNBC Predicts a Possible ‘Thousand-Year Reich’”
Might such claims work against a productive national conversation? It seems more than possible.
Then again, if there’s a murderous hate cult to fight, perhaps there’s no time to talk about anything else.
-ALEX
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