All his life, Donald Trump has been able to escape responsibility by blaming others. Whenever his dozens of businesses failed, from his airline to his vodka company to his steak company, he always blamed it on incompetent management. When his casinos failed he took a $44 million paycheck as his investors lost over a billion dollars, then he blamed it on the economy and then-President Clinton.

Now, in a desperate attempt to avoid responsibility for killing over 100,000 Americans by Election Daythrough his incompetence, Trump is trying to blame the Chinese. He has instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to lead an effort through America's spy agencies to find evidence that the coronavirus escaped from a lab in China.

The world's scientists say the genome of the virus indicates it jumped from an animal in a wet market, but Americans don't really care where this started. This deadly virus is here, now, among us and Americans want our government to provide widespread infection and antibody testing so we can get it under control. In this, Trump continues to fail.

He was able to walk away from blame for all his many business failures through bankruptcy, and now he's bankrupting America to try to avoid blame for his incompetence killing so many of us. This time, he's not gonna work. Or will it?

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: How Trump Wasted the Best Tool He Had to Fight the Coronavirus Pandemic
- Richard Clarke, National Security & Crisis Management expert / former Chief Counter Terrorism Advisor-National Security Council (Clinton Admin) & the person Pres. Clinton tasked with building the stockpile / Author of 9 books including his latest, The Fifth Domain

Article: "How Trump Wasted the Best Tool He Had to Fight Coronavirus" by Eric Cortellessa.

Book: Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes by Richard A. Clarke & R.P. Eddy.

Article: "Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources" by Josh Margolin and James Gordon Meek.

Tweet: "@BarackObama will attack Iran in the not too distant future because it will help him win the election. If the... (cont) http://deck.ly/~RSKCl" by Donald J. Trump, Nov 14, 2011.

Tweet: "@BarackObama will attack Iran in order to get re-elected." by Donald J. Trump, 17 Jan 2012.

Tweet: "Just as I predicted, @BarackObama is preparing a possible attack on Iran right before November." by Donald J. Trump, 3 Jul 2012.

Tweet: "I always said @BarackObama will attack Iran, in some form, prior to the election." by Donald J. Trump, 16 Aug 2012.

Tweet: "Now that Obama's poll numbers are in tailspin - watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate." by Donald J. Trump, 9 Oct 2012.

Article: "Trump Tweets Raise Speculation About Potential Flynn Pardon" by AP.

Article: "Obama Warned Trump Against Hiring Mike Flynn, Say Officials" by Kristen Welker, Dafna Linzer and Ken Dilanian.

Article: "Trump orders Navy to 'shoot down and destroy' any Iranian gunboats 'harassing' US warships in the Persian Gulf" by Nicole Darrah.

Article: "Australia Wants 10 Million People To Download A Coronavirus App. So Far, It's Working." by Nick Visser.

Site: Tracking COVID-19 - Johns Hopkins University.

Article: "Will Trump Get Away With Killing More Americans Than Have Died in all Our Wars Since the End of World War II?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Official Counts Understate the U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll" by Sarah Kliff and Julie Bosman.

Article: "With "Midnight" Executive Order, Meatpacking Slaughterhouses Become Trump's Forced-Labor Camps of Human Sacrifice" by Mark Karlin.

Article: "Trump claims China will 'do anything' to stop his re-election as coronavirus row escalates" by Alison Rourke and Lily Kuo.

Article: "The U.S. has a quarter of the world's confirmed coronavirus deaths despite having less than 5 percent of its population" by Kathryn Krawczyk.

Article: "Pompeo Says China Responsible for Outbreak, Must Detail Origin" by Josh Wingrove.

Article: "The coronavirus was not engineered in a lab. Here's how we know." by Jeanna Bryner.

Article: "Jobless claims climb to 30 million in six weeks as COVID-19 layoffs continue to rise" by Charisse Jones.

Article: "'A great success story': Kushner says Trump team is 'doing a lot of things right' as COVID-19 cases pass one million" by David Badash.

Article: "Shrink wrap contract" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Shooting of Kate Steinle" by Wikipedia.

Article: "First Travel-related Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Detected in United States" by CDC.

Article: "First Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the United States" by Michelle L. Holshue et al.

Article: "Cases in the U.S." by CDC.

Article: "Previous U.S. COVID-19 Case Data" by CDC.

Article: "Iowa tells workers to return to their jobs or lose unemployment benefits, despite warnings that reopening could lead to a second wave of infections" by Juliana Kaplan.

Article: "Cesar Chavez" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Delano grape strike" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Why is the Dow Going Up As We Are Plunging Into A Great Depression...?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Understanding Marxism / Understanding Socialism

Article: "Fed balance sheet expands to record $6.6 trillion in latest week" by Greg Robb.

Article: "Who's Profiting From the Coronavirus Crisis?" by William D. Cohan.

Article: "Dot-com bubble" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Financial crisis of 2007-08" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trickle-down economics" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Fed Goes All In With Unlimited Bond-Buying Plan" by Jeanna Smialek.

Article: "How COVID-19 Will Change Finance: Ford, The Fed, And The Bond Market" by George Calhoun.

Article: "The repo market, explained - and why the Fed keeps pumping hundreds of billions into it" by Sarah Foster.

Article: "Bernie Madoff" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Madoff investment scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ponzi scheme" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump is blaming Obama for leaving him with “broken tests” for a virus that didn't exist. Yes, really." by Aaron Rupar.

Article: "Permanent normal trade relations: U.S. and China" by Wikipedia

Article: "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade" (GATT) by Wikipedia

Site: World Trade Organization (WTO)

Article: "North American Free Trade Agreement" (NAFTA) by Wikipedia

Article: "Ross Perot 1992 presidential campaign" by .

Article: "Smithfield Foods" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How Much U.S. Debt Does China Own?" by Investopedia.

Article: "'American Soil' Is Increasingly Foreign Owned" by Renee Wilde.

Article: "Executive Order on Ordering the Selected Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty" by Donald J. Trump.

Law: "Hatch Act of 1939" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Justin Amash Moves Toward a Third-Party Bid for President" by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns.

Article: "Hundreds of protesters, some carrying guns in the state Capitol, demonstrate against Michigan's emergency measures" by Dartunorro Clark.

Article: "Ron Paul" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: Flooding Will Affect Double the Number of People Worldwide by 2030
- Dr. Jay Famiglietti, Professor, School of Environment and Sustainability / Canada 150 Research Chair in Hydrology and Remote Sensing / Executive Director, Global Institute for Water Security and Senior Water Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Article: "Flooding will affect double the number of people worldwide by 2030" by Emily Holden.

Article: "9th Ward of New Orleans" by Wikipedia.

Article: "No face mask for Vice President Mike Pence as he tours Mayo's COVID-19 testing labs in Rochester" by Briana Bierschbach and Jeremy Olson.

Article: "Mike Pence's Wife Claims He Didn't Know About Hospital Mask Policy, Contradicting Mayo Clinic" by Justin Baragona.

Article: "Pence flouts Mayo Clinic policy on masks -- which is to wear one" by Kevin Liptak.

Article: "Recall of West Point cadets for Trump address creates logistics hurdles and health concerns" by Missy Ryan, Alex Horton and Robert Costa.

Article: "How each senator voted on impeachment" by Jeremy Herb and Sean O'Key.

Article: "U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Is Far Higher Than Reported, C.D.C. Data Suggests" by Josh Katz, Denise Lu and Margot Sanger-Katz.

Article: "Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with covid-19, are dying of strokes" by Ariana Eunjung Cha.

Article: "Massachusetts looking into whether state's coronavirus death toll is undercounted, Gov. Charlie Baker says" by Steph Solis.

Article: "Florida medical examiners were releasing coronavirus death data. The state made them stop" by Kethleen McGrory And Rebecca Woolington.

Article: "Florida Not Reporting Virus Deaths of Non-Residents" by Eric Mack.

Article: "BREAKING: Funeral Directors in COVID-19 Epicenter Doubt Legitimacy of Deaths Attributed to Pandemic, Fear Numbers are 'Padded'" by Project Veritas.

Article: "Indianapolis mail carrier fatally shot over stimulus check, union says; suspect arrested" by WXIN/CNN.

Article: "WATCH: Gun-toting Michigan protesters pack into statehouse to scream in one another's faces" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Joe Grogan, Trump's Top Domestic Policy Aide, Leaving White House Next Month" by Dominique Mosbergen.

Article: "Remdesivir seems to shorten covid hospital stays and may save lives" by Antonio Regalado.

Article: "Maryland GOP governor is hiding his state's testing kits in an undisclosed location so Trump can't seize them" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Spanish flu" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "H.R.6407 - Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act" by Rep. Davis, Tom [R-VA-11].

Article: "'The Postal Service's financial losses result from "a 2006 law that drains $5 billion a year from post office revenue, while the Postal Service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts.'" by PolitiFact.

Article: "US intelligence agencies under pressure to link coronavirus to Chinese labs" by Patrick Wintour.

Article: "2015 Scientific Paper Proves US & Chinese Scientists Collaborated to Create Coronavirus that Can Infect Humans" by Peter R. Breggin.

Article: "A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence" by Vineet D Menachery et al.

Article: "Norman Rockwell" by Wikipedia.

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