YOU GO, JOE!

I underestimated President Joe Biden. He is in my top five list of our nation’s greatest presidents. (I have to take a closer look at that sentence; I’m not sure that out of 47 presidents, five of them could be considered “great.”)

Unlike any of his predecessors, he displayed the courage to simply “do the right thing.”

First, he pardoned his son who was convicted of crimes which are seldom prosecuted. Right-wing politicians conducted a real “witch hunt” into Hunter Biden for years, and I commend a father, who happens to be our President, for his actions.

Second, yesterday the President acted with admirable compassion and common sense.

“President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. It’s the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.”

Add to this part of the story the irrefutable fact that the media ignored the most successful economic policy since the Clinton administration, rescuing our nation from the disaster created by Trump between 2017 and 2021, and you begin to see the greatness of our oldest president.

As I write this, it must be noted that the mainstream media failed to tell the truth about Trump. He accomplished nothing in four years with the exception of additional, permanent tax cuts for the super-rich. He bragged about the economy, but it was not his to brag about. These situations were created by the Obama administration long before we began to curse the orange buffoon calling himself Donald Trump.

The media intentionally downplayed Trump’s failure to lead our nation during one of the deadliest health emergencies in our nation’s short history: Covid-19.

Trump refused to read a critical document called the “Presidents Daily Brief.” However, in December of 2019, one of his aides, who was assigned to read the document, informed your illegitimate president that a healthcare emergency had originated in China, and would most likely spread across Asia, then advance into Europe and North America. Of course, we know that Trump wasn’t interested: it did not affect him, and therefore he ignored the information.

When the press began to report a growing number of deaths related to the coronavirus in January, he told them, “it will just go away.” As Americans began to become infected with Covid-19, he suggested that “drinking bleach,” or exposing our insides to “bright light” would kill the virus, his supporters believed his fairy tales. It is clear why Trump referred to them as “basement dwellers.”

However, in March, American men, women, and children began to lose their lives from Covid-19. He did nothing.

However, the pharmaceutical industry began to develop a vaccine. As production began, the Trump administration failed to create a plan to distribute the vaccine.

When President Biden took office in January of 2021, he and his staff quickly created a plan which would offer the vaccine to all Americans and save lives.

Healthcare experts claim that if Trump had taken timely action in January of 2020, at least 10 percent of the more than one-million lives lost could have been saved. This makes Trump the most prolific mass murderer in American history. He is directly or indirectly responsible for about 100,000 American deaths.

If you voted for him, you are a fool. His role as a con man was clear throughout his 78 years. It was confirmed in 2021 that Trump was the worst president in American history. A second term can only be worse than the first.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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Source: https://apnews.com/article/biden-pardons-clemency-4432002d67334e6716c2776fd73f3cc8