161,000 dead makes it manslaughter

In a just America, President Trump would be arrested, tried and convicted of manslaughter; recklessly responsible for tens of the 161,000 deaths from covid-19. Anyone going 90 MPH the wrong way down a one-way street posted at 30 MPH, who killed a pedestrian, would suffer that fate. But Trump, going 90 MPH the wrong way done the one-way street of pandemic protection, gets to continue his criminally negligent behavior till his possible removal from office next January 20. Maybe.

Repeatedly claiming our infection numbers are high because of testing that should be curtailed is like telling persons with cancer symptoms to not seek medical attention. Calling pandemic a Democratic hoax represents seeking re-election over the bodies of untold thousands. Publically labeling your best pandemic medical advisors ‘pathetic’, ‘out of touch’ and ‘mis-informed’ is helping fill up cemeteries and crematoriums with bodies otherwise destined for additional life. Dismissing the 161,000 dead from 5,000,000 infections is just 7 months as something that will “just go away like other things go away” is the horrifying response to a populous seeking moral and intellectual sanity from its leader.

With 167 days till Inauguration Day, 2021, the death toll, at a thousand of largely unnecessary deaths daily, will more than double to 328,000. Americans should not have to wait till January 20, 2021, to end the criminally negligent behavior of the president. Republican leaders must, like Sen. Barry Goldwater and others did in 1974 to Richard Nixon, make that fateful trip to the White House to tell the president he must resign forthwith. It’s not an indictment, trial and conviction for manslaughter. But for the sake of those hundreds of thousands being given a death notice every 80 seconds in Trump America, it will suffice.