TRUMP ROLLS OUT HERD MENTALITY AS HIS FINAL SOLUTION FOR COVID-19

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🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Trump's new "herd mentality" strategy for dealing with the corona virus is beyond incompetent: its evil. Trump's latest failure could kill 6 million Americans.

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0:00.0	This is the Tom Hartman program.
0:18.0	Well, greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers,
0:23.1	and peace, freedom, and the American way,
0:25.8	Tom Hartman here with you.
0:27.3	I want to get into this issue of herd immunity.
0:31.2	If you've caught Donald Trump's town hall with George Stephanopoulos
0:34.6	on ABC News, George was basically, you know, he said, well what are you going to do
0:39.4	about the virus and Trump said, well it's just going to go away. And George was like, well how does that? and
0:43.0	George was like, well, how does that happen?
0:46.0	And Trump was like, well, when enough people get infected,
0:50.0	you no longer have the disease spreading.
0:52.0	It's called herd.
0:54.0	And he started to say immunity and then realized
0:56.3	you can't use that phrase.
0:57.8	That phrase is like, you know, it's just a word
1:00.4	you don't say in polite company anymore.
1:03.2	What is it, Hancock, Hitchcock, whatever's name is?
1:06.2	You know, the health minister of the UK
1:08.4	had used that phrase for a while,
1:09.9	and Boris Johnson had used that phrase for a while,
1:12.3	and they just got trash for it.
1:14.0	And by the way, because they basically pissed away months of time trying their herd immunity
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