Former President Donald Trump early on in the Covid-19 pandemic floated the idea of sending infected American tourists to the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, according to an excerpt of an upcoming book which adds new detail to the behind-the-scenes chaos of the Trump administration’s controversial pandemic response.
“Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History,” a book from two Washington Post journalists, details a February 2020 meeting in which Trump shocked aides with the suggestion, an excerpt published in the newspaper Monday reveals.
As White House officials debated how to handle Americans infected with the virus abroad, Trump reportedly asked staff members assembled in the Situation Room whether Americans could be quarantined on the Caribbean base where the U.S. also holds terrorism suspects in the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison.
“Don’t we have an island we own?” the president reportedly asked, eager to keep the U.S.’s numbers low, continuing: “What about Guantanamo?”
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Has Forbes replaced The Hill with fabricated conspiracies against President Trump, the current POTUS, the fool the sleeping sheeple?
Headline Trump Considered Sending Covid-Infected Americans To Guantanamo
Obvious implication. Trump wanted to treat those infected with Covid in a way that even dangerous terrorists aren’t supposed to be treated according to liberal ideology and beliefs
Actual allegation. Trump consider quarantining Covid-Infected Americans on an island and ASKED if Guantanamo could be used for that purpose.
These days Trump isn’t in the news so much anymore but when he is the headlines still never follow the article and allegations against him
Fake News!
Even according to the article, Trump never considered sending people with Corona to Guantanamo as in the Guantanamo prison. .When Covid first hit, he discussed with his staff the possibility of using an island to isolate people with Covid.. Guantanamo was a potential island that he mentioned in the discussion
Fake news or not.
I wouldn’t put it past this delusional “Menuval”; namely, Our Former President!