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Trump was the biggest birther. His Epstein Visa 'wife', too. Trump planted false stories with David Pecker from The National Enquirer.

2021(dating ver.) x 2026(married ver.)

^^^ I'm actually delighted that Senate Republican conspiracy nuts decided to bring up COVID-19. It gives me an excuse to remind everybody of Trump's neglect and incompetence in the pandemic

Trump was in Davos schmoozing with billionaire bros when the first case of COVID-19 appeared in the US. Here was his response as given to CNBC...

Of course it wasn't "fine".

Trump spent almost two months doing the usual idiotic Trump stuff like rage-tweeing from the bathroom. He found the time to criticize "Parasite" which won the Oscar for best film; probably not enough white people in it for him.

Meanwhile, the virus was spreading across the US unhindered. Trump belatedly got around to declaring a state of emergency on Friday March 13th. He likely only did so because the stock markets crashed that week. By the time of the declaration, the virus had spread to almost every state.

And instead of taking a disastrous pandemic seriously, Trump encouraged Americans to go for quack preventives and cures.

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Could the oil industry be held responsible for fueling the extreme heat that led to a woman’s death?

That’s the question at the heart of a novel lawsuit in Washington state. Misti Leon’s mother died from overheating during the hottest day in state history in June 2021, when temperatures climbed to 108 degrees F. Scientists said the unusual heat dome that descended on the Pacific Northwest would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change. So last year, Leon sued Exxon Mobil, BP, Chevron, Shell, and other oil majors for wrongful death, alleging that they had known for decades that fossil fuel emissions would lead to destructive consequences, but deceived the public about it, delaying action that could have prevented her mother’s death. An estimated 1,200 people in the region perished from the heat during that simmering week in June.