Trump Uses Sleight-of-Hand to Hide His Failure to Save Lives

Deborah Birx, coronavirus response coordinator, left, speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump ooints to a chart during a news conference at the White House in Washington D.C., U.S. on Saturday, April 18, 2020. Trump said that the stock market's recent upward trajectory shows that traders think his administration's response to the coronavirus outbreak has been a success. Photographer: Tasos Katopodis/UPI/Bloomberg

Trump’s accounting methods like his tax returns are not to be publicly seen (ODT)

Those states — New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Delaware — have recorded 35,718 deaths out of a combined population of about 53.6 million. That mortality rate of 66.6 per 100,000 for the region exceeds the current figure for every European country except Belgium, which, unlike the U.S., includes in its count a large number of deaths in nursing homes that are suspected of being virus-related, but have not been confirmed by testing.

“When @realDonaldTrump makes a macabre ranking, by pointing the finger at Belgium to give the impression that all is well in the U.S.A. I find it disgraceful, the basest of politics.”

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