Ilhan Omar blames Trump's 'criminal neglect' for father's Covid death
The New Arab
December 18, 2020
American Muslim Cngresswoman Ilhan Omar said on Thursday that her father died of Covid-19 in June due to “criminal neglect” byDonald Trump.
"My
father and over 300,000 people have lost their lives because of
dangerous criminal neglect by Trump and his administration," Omar told MSNBC.
"I
agree with [South Carolina Congressman Jim] Clyburn that it is not
enough for us just to issue subpoenas, we have to investigate and
prosecute these people who are responsible for these reckless deaths."
The Democrat
representative for Minnesota's 5th Congressional District said that the
reason her father – and hundreds of thousands of other people who died
from coronavirus – are "not here with us because we didn’t have leaders
who cared about their lives."
"The president, to this day, has not shown an ounce of compassion to the people who have passed away," she added.
"My father survived so many things, for him to lose his life to Covid is devastating."
Omar’s
comments come following the release of a memo by Clyburn, who is the
Chairman of the House of Representatives' Subcommittee on the
Coronavirus Crisis.
The memo cited new documents obtained in the investigation of political
interference by senior members of the Trump administration in the
response to the Covid pandemic.
The documents show that officials
at the Department of Health and Human Services on several occasions
discussed pursuing a "herd immunity" strategy and were aware that Trump
administration policies were causing an increase in coronavirus cases.
However,
the officials apparently tried to hide the true danger of the virus and
blamed career scientists for the administration’s failures.
"I
am deeply troubled that, instead of promoting the best available science
needed to keep Americans safe, the Trump Administration has played
politics with a pandemic that has claimed the lives of more than 300,000
of our fellow Americans," the Chairman stated earlier this week.
"The
documents obtained by the Select Subcommittee show a pernicious pattern
of political interference by administration officials. As the virus
spread through the country, these officials callously wrote, ‘who cares’
and ‘we want them infected.’ They privately admitted they ‘always knew’
the President’s policies would cause a ‘rise’ in cases, and they
plotted to blame the spread of the virus on career scientists."
1 comment:
I suspect that it is likely that President Trump coerced the Chinese into developing the virus then releasing it on the world just to kill her father. Or maybe not.
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