Four years after winning the presidency by convincing Americans that he would build a wall along the entire southern border of the United States and make Mexico pay for it, Donald Trump is back on stage, promising to give Americans a stimulus package and make China pay for it. The cheers are deafening and Trump is dancing. Never mind he could not build the wall and Mexico mostly laughed at the suggestion.
Trump, who said he knew more about Islamic State than his generals and more about viruses than his infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, is on a roll. “The pandemic is ending. We are rounding the corner,” he says at a rally, without a hint of the deception that unnerves his critics. The mostly unmasked, socially close crowd goes wild. Never mind the 8.4 million Americans infected by the virus and the 2,25,222 dead, the highest tally globally.
Then he calls for the jailing of Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton for good measure. “Lock them up, lock them up, lock them up,” the chants get louder. Trump wants to lock up the entire Biden family. Never mind the criminal investigations conducted by Trump’s own justice department turned up nothing.
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