White House touts Covid-19 'lab leak' theory on new website

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24. I do also think of it often. Trump badly mishandled his role as President during the pandemic. One should recall...

...how he only half seemed to take it semi-seriously after the stock market started to collapse. Even then, his motivation at that time seemed more aligned with not looking bad in public so he could be re-elected, instead of guiding the country through the pandemic with as little loss of life as possible. All the while, he bounced from bright light to ivermectin to hydroxychloroquine to disinfectant in disjointed flights of self-centered, stream-of-consciousness quackery.

He should have been charged with some degree of criminal negligence for all of the deaths in the US that resulted from his inability to lead. Bob Woodward's book on the pandemic, after all, had Trump acknowledge that Trump "knew" the seriousness of the pandemic at least as early as the first week of February 2020. (Still, Trump is mostly completely unsullied by knowledge. Just the other day, he actually told the Italian Prime Minister in the Oval Office that he was unaware of what "the Congo" is.)

The Congo
Trump (starting at 13:37 in the video) : "...All over the world... the Congo and Africa... Many, many people come from the Congo. I don't know what that is, but they came from the Congo, and all over the world, they came in...opened their jails...."

People must have forgotten how absolutely worthless his leadership was and also how abjectly stupid he actually is.