Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, presidents of the United States and Brazil, are essentially refusing to do anything consequential about an epidemic that is killing massive numbers of their own countries' citizens.

For this, they should be brought before the International Criminal Court at The Hague and charged with crimes against humanity.

To compound the situation here, Trump is now ridiculing people who wear masks, including Joe Biden.

Wearing masks is one of the most simple, low cost and effective ways to slow down the spread of this pandemic and reduce the numbers of deaths.

But Donald Trump doesn't want to smear his makeup, and so is suggesting to his insecure white male followers that wearing a mask makes a man seem less manly. He's also refusing to do anything about testing at the national level other than ordering some swabs.

This isn't just an abrogation of his duties as president. It is a crime. It is intentional disinformation being put forward purely for political purposes, and it will kill people.

Even worse was his ignoring and lying about the coming pandemic when he was first informed of it back in November and December. Trump and Bolsonaro knew what was coming, both from their own intelligence agencies and from news reports of the situations in China, Italy, and Spain.

While countries from Taiwan to New Zealand to Norway have gotten the virus under control, Trump and Bolsonaro did worse than nothing by spreading lies and disinformation while the virus exploded through their populations

Many of the families of people who have died of COVID-19 here in the United States have considered suing Trump, but it is nearly impossible to sue a sitting president, and Bill Barr has made it clear that the Justice Department will not hold Trump accountable for anything, up to and including shooting somebody on Fifth Avenue.

Therefore, we here in the United States, who are the victims of his criminal malfeasance, and the rest of the world who are victims of the United States and Brazil becoming the uncontrolled epicenters of a worldwide explosion of disease, must act.

It's time to bring Donald Trump, and his mini Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, before the international criminal court at The Hague and convict them of crimes against humanity.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Mid-day with Mark
- Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)

Article: "COVID-19 HEROES Act: When Will the Senate Vote?" by S.M. Walsh.

Article: "New Zealand Is Celebrating A Bunch Of Good News About The Coronavirus" by David Mack.

Article: "Trump criticizes reporter in mask, despite his administration's coronavirus guideline" by Chacour Koop.

Article: "FEMA seized 5MILLION face masks ordered for veterans and sent them to the federal stockpile, VA official says" by Lauren Edmonds.

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: "Hospitals say feds are seizing masks and other coronavirus supplies without a word" by Noam N. Levey.

Article: "FDA continues to seize cheaper drugs from Canada as COVID-19 spreads across US" by Phil Galewitz.

Article: "Officials in at least 6 states are accusing the federal government of quietly diverting their orders for coronavirus medical equipment" by Mia Jankowicz.

Site: BradCast.

Article: "After Wisconsin Republicans forced election, study links in-person voting to spike in COVID-19 cases" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "The Courts Won't End Gerrymandering. Eric Holder Has a Plan to Fix It Without Them" by Ari Berman.

Article: "Lee Atwater" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tea Party movement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Intel: 331 lawmakers take International Criminal Court to task over Israel investigation" by Bryant Harris.

Article: "Electoral College" by Wikipedia.

Article: "We need to plan now in case Trump loses in November — but refuses to leave the White House" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "12th Amendment"

Article: "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006" by Wikipedia.

Article: "House passes $3T 'HEROES' aid package as U.S. death toll nears 90,000" by Lauren Frias.

Article: "Victory garden" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "H.R.40 - Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act" by Rep. Jackson Lee, Sheila [D-TX-18].

Article: "Trump made Florida his official residence. He may have also made a legal mess." by Manuel Roig-Franzia.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil" by Wikipedia.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden Says Trump Is An 'Absolute Fool' For Ridiculing His Mask-Wearing" by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman.

Article: "US alerted Israel, NATO to disease outbreak in China in November - TV report" by Times of Israel.

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

Article: "Signs missed and steps slowed in Trump's pandemic response" by Jonathan Lemire, Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin And Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar.

Tweet: "HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine..." by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "he [Xi] will be successful, especially as the weather starts to warm & the virus hopefully becomes weaker, and then gone" by Donald J. Trump.

Quote: "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters." - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Cohen: Trump isn't joking when he says he can 'shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it'" by MSNBC.

Article: "Trump's Lawyer Argues President Can't Be Prosecuted for Shooting Someone on Fifth Avenue" by NBC NY.

Article: "Woman who coughed on $35K worth of grocery store food charged with four felonies" by Elisha Fieldstadt.

Article: "U.S. bans travel from Brazil as coronavirus also surges in Mexico" by Allen Cone.

Article: "Jair Bolsonaro's populism is leading Brazil to disaster" by Gideon Rachman.

Article: "John Prine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Twitter labeled Trump tweets with a fact check for the first time" by Brian Fung.

Article: "Live nuclear testing could resume in 'months' if needed, official says" by Aaron Mehta.

Article: "Don The Despot? Donald Trump says he admires murderous tyrant Kim Jong-un claiming 'he speaks and his people sit up for attention – I want my people to do the same'" by Jay Akbar.

Article: "Hollywood and the downwinders still grapple with nuclear fallout" by Rory Carroll.

Article: "Donald Trump can't stop fidgeting during solemn military commemoration" by Jacob Geanous.

Article: "Suspected 'spy' pigeon wearing 'coded ring' detained by police".

Article: "White gunmen storm Michigan Capitol with assault-style rifles, lawmakers inside State House share disturbing video and photos" by Xeni Jardin.

Article: "'I Can't Breathe': Final Words of Black Man Before Being Killed by White Cops Cause Anger on Twitter" by News18.

Article: "Amy Cooper: White woman who called police on a black man in Central Park has been fired" by Amir Vera and Laura Ly.

Article: "Kentucky lockdown protesters condemned for hanging effigy of governor from tree" by Edward Helmore.

Article: "An armed Pokemon and a man with a doll in a noose were among the anti-lockdown protestors outside the Michigan Capitol" by K. Thor Jensen.

Article: "Trump threatens to 'close down' social media companies if they don't stop fact-checking his tweets" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Trump threatens to 'strongly regulate' or 'close down' social media platforms after Twitter fact check" by Kelly Tyko.

Article: "'Absolutely no legal authority': Trump's threats to shut down Twitter are 'totally asinine' and reek of censorship, according to legal experts" by Sonam Sheth and Eliza Relman.

The Gop's Gerrymandering Scheme for 2021 Exposed
- David Daley, Senior Fellow & Communications Director - FairVote & former editor-in-chief-Salon / Author of the new book, "Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy" (his previous book RATF**KED: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy)

Article: "Republicans Have a New Plan to Thwart the Will of the People" by David Daley.

Article: "Missouri GOP Votes to Gut Anti-Gerrymandering Reform Approved by Voters" by Donald Shaw.

Article: "Wisconsin Supreme Court blocks order by governor suspending in-person voting, putting Tuesday's election back on track" by Kendall Karson.

Clip: "Paul Weyrich - "I don't want everybody to vote" (Goo Goo)".

Bill: "H.R.4000 - Fair Representation Act" by Rep. Beyer, Donald S., Jr. [D-VA-8].

Article: "How Proportional Representation Elections Work" by FairVote.

Article: "Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff" (RCV) by FairVote.

Article: "Paula Jones accuses Bill Clinton of sexual harassment" by History.com.

Article: "United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rick Scott hits back at Andrew Cuomo over bailouts: 'People keep leaving his state'" by Joshua Nelson.

Article: "House passes bill to lift $10,000 cap on state and local tax deductions" by Darla Mercado.

Article: "Red States Vs Blue States - Let the Experiment Begin?" by Thom Hartmann.

Hour Three: The Long Dreaded "National Security" Law Is Being Imposed on Hong Kong
- Wilfred Chan, Contributing Writer - The Nation Magazine

Article: "The Infinite Heartbreak of Loving Hong Kong" by Wilfred Chan.

Article: "China is set to pass a draconian new law in Hong Kong that would effectively stifle all dissent. Here's what could happen to people in the city." by Sinéad Baker.

Article: "Pompeo Says Hong Kong No Longer Has Autonomy Under China" by Edward Wong.

Article: "Hong Kong" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2014 Hong Kong protests" (Umbrella Movement) by Wikipedia.

Article: "What China promised Hong Kong" by Chris Patten.

Article: "Thucydides Trap" by Graham Tillett Allison, Jr.

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

Article: "1989 Tiananmen Square protests" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US attempts to use outrage over China's Hong Kong law to rally support behind anti-Beijing efforts" by cnn.

Article: "Narcissistic personality disorder" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kellyanne Conway paints target on back of Twitter executive in charge of preventing disinformation" by David Badash.

Tweet: "Donald Trump killed his personal assistant, Carolyn Gombell, in October 2000. He strangled her because he'd gotten her pregnant and was threatening to tell the press. Then he bribed NYPD Police Chief Bernie Kierik to cover it up. IT'S TIME TO INVESTIGATE. #JusticeForCarolyn" by God.

Tweet: "I hear there's a lot of interest in this story about Matt Gaetz and his dead roommate at FSU. Probably more to this story, too, right?" by moretjon.

Article: "Who's in Trump's Cabinet? A full list of the president's top advisers" by Fox News.

Article: "Hashtag #JusticeForCarolyn trends as libs claim Trump killed his personal assistant in 2000, and people believe it" by Tom Tillison.

Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" by Wikipedia.

Article: "NASA's SpaceX launch scrubbed due to weather, next chance on Saturday" by Catherine Thorbecke.

Article: "What We Know About the Death of George Floyd in Minneapolis" by New York Times.

Article: "Was Derek Chauvin Photographed Alongside Donald Trump at a Campaign Rally?" by Arturo Garcia.

Article: "Minneapolis police barred from wearing uniforms to Trump rally" by Courtney Subramanian.

Article: "Trump campaign still hasn't paid back at least 6 cities for rally bills" by Maegan Vazquez.

Site: Joe Biden Campaign Site.

Article: "Trump's Net Approval IMPLODES in His Favorite Poll — Down 15 Points in 3 Weeks" by Tommy Christopher.

Quote: "Never Interfere With an Enemy While He's in the Process of Destroying Himself" - Napoleon Bonaparte.

Article: "Face Coverings Now Mandatory In Orange County, But Sheriff Don Barnes Says He Is Not 'The Mask Police'" by CBSLA.

Book: Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump with Tony Schwartz.

Article: "Deepfake" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Protester who hoisted Gov. Andy Beshear effigy fired from job at Neil Huffman Auto Group" by Sarah Ladd.

Article: "Keeping America Safe? Man dies in fire in Trump Tower where there are no sprinklers on upper floors." by igualdad.

Article: "Hospitals & Nursing Homes Spent $98 Million On State Politics -- Now They Want Immunity" by David Sirota.

Article: "Legal immunity from grandma" by Judd Legum.

Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be talking with Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books including Understanding Marxism and his latest, Understanding Socialism.

And, I'll be talking with Bill Freese, Science Policy Analyst - Center for Food Safety about Newly Finalized Federal Regulations on GMOs

Plus, Paul Gunter, director of the Reactor Oversight Project Beyond Nuclear, will tell us how the U.S. Unprepared for Nuclear Accident During a Pandemic

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