Manslaughter

Earlier this year, the American people were told repeatedly that Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner was developing a plan with a White House team to tackle the Covid-19 virus.

And then that plan was suddenly dropped.

On Thursday, Vanity Fair magazine published an article looking at why that planning was scrapped (link here).

The reason why is deeply troubling: The Trump administration believed "because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy."

Kushner had the final word about this planning. And apparently he was convinced by that argument and just scuttled the whole project.

This is one of the worst things the Trump administration has done, if not the worst. They decided they no longer cared about the problem because it would primarily hurt states that vote Democratic. Their indifference caused tens of thousand of Americans to die.

This revelation was confirmed by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman, who wrote on her Twitter pages: "This is a well-reported look into some of what went wrong. It’s also worth noting that treating the coronavirus as a blue state problem was a fairly widespread approach in the West Wing" (source here).

This approach, which is nothing short of homicide, was not only founded in cruelty, it was flat out wrong. The pandemic started out in the so-called blue states, but now it's mostly under control there but out of control in the red states.

Once the Trump administration is evicted from the White House, which hopefully will be January 20, 2021, ambitious blue state attorneys general should prosecute Kushner and others for manslaughter.