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JWeinCom said:
SanAndreasX said:

Even when local government did act, Trump's administration did everything they could to undermine the efforts of local government when he didn't agree with them, i.e. when he saw a threat to the economy that could bite him in the butt in November. 

Ultimately a pandemic is a national crisis that demands a national response. Not a bunch of piecemeal responses interspersed with indifference. The virus doesn't care about state or county lines. Trump should have been front and center. Instead, he wanted to play both sides against the middle for his own gain.

In the United States, the buck stops at the President's desk. Or at least it used to. This president has been incompetent and useless at best, and outright malicious at worst. The ultimate responsibility for this mess belongs to him. He has failed.

Keeping Americans in Benghazi safe was Hillary Clinton's job. When Americans died they rightfully investigated to see if she could have done things differently and to what extent it was her fault. And while they probably over investigated, it was 100% correct to assess whether she was accountable. 

All I ask is that the same standards be applied to Donald Trump. Once this is over, whether or not his actions endangered American lives should be investigated with the same level of scrutiny. If it is found that his actions did lead to American deaths that could have been avoided, he should be accountable. I'd say, treason charges would be appropriate, but I'm not a legal expert.

If an investigation determined that his actions caused hundreds of thousands of American deaths, that would be an impeachable offense. Getting 67 Senators to vote to convict, however, would be next to impossible unless an awful lot of Senate Republicans grew a backbone and a conscience.