Michael Moore accuses President Trump of murder for playing down coronavirus toll: ‘Trump is a mass killer’

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Does “playing down” the threat of coronavirus early on in the pandemic make a national leader a murderer?

Filmmaker Michael Moore seems to think so, and he said as much, in so many words, in his latest podcast as he reflected on Friday about the death lessons of 9/11.

President Trump, he said, was as responsible for the nearly 200,000 U.S. coronavirus deaths as Confederate leaders and Osama bin Laden were for the Civil War dead and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City, Washington and Pennsylvania, respectively.

Moore calculated that 67 times more people have died in the U.S. of COVID-19 than were killed in the 2011 terrorist attacks.

Recent revelations by author Bob Woodward have Trump on tape saying that he knew how serious and deadly coronavirus was back in January, and played it down.

“My friends, this is murder in the extreme,” Moore said. “No American other than Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his general Robert E. Lee has killed more Americans than Donald J. Trump.”

More than 600,000 Americans died in the U.S. Civil War, and as Moore pointed out of coronavirus, “we’ve been told by the White House Task Force itself, this could get to 400,000 by Christmas. Dead.”

While Trump “didn’t actually kill them with his own hands,” Moore said, “I can tell you for a fact that Osama Bin Laden did not fly a single one of those goddamn airplanes. So he’s innocent? No. Trump is a mass killer.”

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