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To: Senator Gary Peters and Senator Debbie Stabenow and All of Congress
Demand Trump Resign For His Gross Mis-Handling of COVID-19
Donald Trump's response to COVID-19 has been incredibly irresponsible, motivated by self interests, and has left every American incredibly vulnerable and unprepared for this pandemic and will lead to exponential economic hardships and deaths than it needed to.
Why is this important?
At the end of 2019, as the disease COVID-19 was ravaging other countries Donald Trump and his administration made the conscious decision to not take actions to mitigate the impending crisis for the American people. They made the decision to not appoint someone to oversee information about the disease and they made the decision to not order the tests needed in this crisis.
This inaction has lead to an extreme economic downturn, an incredible number of job losses for working people, even more unstable conditions for the poor and homeless, and will lead to an exponential amount of preventable illnesses and deaths.
We have just learned that this was not just incompetence but a conscious decision made by President Trump to protect his Re-election bid.
In and interview with NPR, journalist Dan Diamond from Politico notes:
"In the case of Alex Azar [Secretary of Health] he did go to the president in January. He did push past the resistance from the president's political aides to warn the president the new coronavirus could be a major problem. There were aides around Trump - Kellyanne Conway had some skepticism at times that this was something that needed to be a presidential priority."
"But at the same time, Secreatry Azar has not always given the president the worst-case scenario of what could happen. My understanding is [Trump] did not push to do aggressive additional testing in recent weeks...
and that's partly because more testing might have led to more cases being discovered of coronavirus outbreak, and the president had made clear - the lower the numbers on coronavirus, the better for the president, the better for his reelection this fall."
I demand you immediately look into this gross negligence and do everything you can to ensure President Trump's resignation.
This inaction has lead to an extreme economic downturn, an incredible number of job losses for working people, even more unstable conditions for the poor and homeless, and will lead to an exponential amount of preventable illnesses and deaths.
We have just learned that this was not just incompetence but a conscious decision made by President Trump to protect his Re-election bid.
In and interview with NPR, journalist Dan Diamond from Politico notes:
"In the case of Alex Azar [Secretary of Health] he did go to the president in January. He did push past the resistance from the president's political aides to warn the president the new coronavirus could be a major problem. There were aides around Trump - Kellyanne Conway had some skepticism at times that this was something that needed to be a presidential priority."
"But at the same time, Secreatry Azar has not always given the president the worst-case scenario of what could happen. My understanding is [Trump] did not push to do aggressive additional testing in recent weeks...
and that's partly because more testing might have led to more cases being discovered of coronavirus outbreak, and the president had made clear - the lower the numbers on coronavirus, the better for the president, the better for his reelection this fall."
I demand you immediately look into this gross negligence and do everything you can to ensure President Trump's resignation.
How it will be delivered
I will email my senators and mail a copy of the signatures.