Lancet Commission on Public Health

From “The Lancet” – The premier British medical journal examined Trump’s conduct. The Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health examined Trump’s actions and assessed their impact on public health. Among the actions by Trump cited by the commission are that he:
Politicised and repudiated science, leaving the USA unprepared and exposed to the COVID-19 pandemicEviscerated environmental regulation, hastening global warmingIncited racial, nativist, and religious hatred, provoking vigilante and police violenceDenied refuge to migrants fleeing violence and oppression, and abused immigrant detaineesUndermined health coverageWeakened food assistance programmesCurtailed reproductive rightsUndermined global cooperation for health, and triggered trade warsShifted resources from social programmes to military spending and tax windfalls for corporations and the wealthySubverted democracy both nationally and internationally
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