Making Sense of Trump’s Approach to Covid Crisis

FEATURING LES LEOPOLD – The White House abruptly changed its policy on social distancing on Monday, now requiring almost everyone to wear a mask while on its premises after several troubling reports of officials close to the President and Vice President having tested positive for Covid-19.

After months of downplaying the seriousness of the disease, claiming that it would one day just “vanish” like a “miracle,” the deadly virus has proven scientists right in its pervasiveness. But will that matter to an administration that has made it clear it wishes for reelection at all costs, including the predictable deaths of tens of thousands and possibly hundreds of thousands of Americans?

Read Les Leopold’s article ‘President Donald Trump Culls the Herd,’ HERE.

Les Leopold, director of the Labor Institute in New York and author of Runaway Inequality: An Activist’s Guide to Economic Justice. His earlier books include The Looting of America: How Wall Street’s Game of Fantasy Finance destroyed our Jobs, Pensions and Prosperity, and What We Can Do About It.