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What if a virus were ever used as a WMD?

21 April 2020

2:56 AM

21 April 2020

2:56 AM

This article is in The Spectator’s May 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours.

Faced with the coronavirus pandemic, Donald Trump declares ‘I’m a wartime president’, echoing George W. Bush after 9/11. For both men, the jaw-jutting self-flattery was absurd as both had been draft dodgers during the Vietnam war. W. used the family name and connections to secure a place in the Texas Air National Guard, Trump getting a draft deferment because of bad feet (a condition that was never so debilitating as to slow down his golf game).

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