For more than 12 years, Nicholas Enrich worked at USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, rising to become one of the agency’s top global health officials. Then, in a matter of weeks, he watched as the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) dismantled the six-decade-old agency responsible for delivering American foreign aid around the world.
Enrich documented the experience in his book Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID. He joined Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss what happened behind the scenes, and its devastating consequences.
This is what Mass Murder looks like.
I would put far more blame on Facebook and Joe Rogan. Trump signed off on shut down, and when he got sick that was quite inspiring. He signed the Warp speed law and that made a massive difference. He could have played it like Sweden and just ignored COVID completely.
Even Obama and his planned response would have got the same results from a country full of assholes.
Do you have any idea how many people Trump killed by refusing to wear a mask in front of cameras? His vanity kept him from doing the most simple, basic thing possible.
Trump deserves not a single positive word uttered about his handling of COVID, all he deserves is to smolder in hell for all eternity.
He tried to ignore COVID completely. Do you not remember all the “if we don’t test there won’t be so many cases” bullshit? And his dismissal of masks and science and intelligence in general.
All that did was inspire me to root for the disease.