Two weeks after America diagnosed its first case of COVID-19, Republicans in the United States Senate (with the single exception of Mitt Romney) refuse to vote to impeach Donald Trump.

They decided he couldn't do much more damage than he already has, and, as Senator Susan Collins suggested, he would back down from his most outrageous behavior because his hands had been slapped by the House of Representatives.

Now, newly empowered and feeling invincible, he seems hellbent on a crusade to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans.

Nobody knows why Trump is so enthusiastic about encouraging people to get sick and die from COVID-19, although there are a couple possibly viable theories

Read more here.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Is this some crazy "Hitler Meets Jim Jones" drama playing out in front of us?
- Psychoanalyst Dr. Justin Frank MD, Psychoanalyst & Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - George Washington University / Author - Trump on the Couch (Previous books include Bush on the Couch & Obama on the Couch)

Article: "Trump holds rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma" by Melissa Macaya, Maegan Vazquez, Joe Ruiz and Kyle Blaine.

Video: Trump addresses crowd of young Americans at Arizona rally - FULL.

Article: "Trump heading to Wisconsin as new polls show Biden building a lead in the battleground state" by John Wagner.

Book: In Hitler's Bunker: A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account of the Fuhrer's Last Days by Armin D. Lehmann.

Article: "Adolf Hitler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jim Jones" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana.

Article: "Trump niece's bombshell book to detail family 'trauma, neglect and abuse'" by Martin Pengelly.

Quote: "I Call It Truthful Hyperbole" - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "When Will I Be Loved (song)" by Phil Everly.

Article: "Narcissus (mythology)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Allies Eye Buyout of One America News Network: WSJ" by Allison Quinn.

Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rodrigo Duterte" (Philippines) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan" (Turkey) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Columbus 'paramilitary' police with assault weapons jump out of unmarked vans to abduct protester" by David Edwards.

Article: "Political Donors Linked to China Won Access to Trump, GOP" by Brian Spegele.

Article: "How Chinese spies penetrated the Trump White House" by David Cay Johnston.

Article: "Why Is Trump So Enthusiastic About Americans Dying?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Romney the only senator to defect from party in impeachment vote" by Andrew O'Reilly.

Article: "Susan Collins will vote to acquit Trump, saying he's "learned" from impeachment" by Grace Segers.

Article: "The coronavirus is infecting and killing black Americans at an alarmingly high rate" by Reis Thebault, Andrew Ba Tran and Vanessa Williams.

Article: "FreedomWorks" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tea Party movement" by Wikipedia.

Article: ""Apocalyptic" coronavirus surges feared in major US cities as most populous states hit record numbers" by Faith Karimi and Douglas Wood.

Article: "Why Did the Trump Administration Reject the WHO Coronavirus Test?" by Charles P. Pierce.

Video: "54 times Trump downplayed the coronavirus ".

Article: "Donald Trump Refuses To Wear Face Mask After CDC Recommends: I Won't 'Be Doing It' - Watch" by Beth Shilliday.

Article: "FEMA seized 5MILLION face masks ordered for veterans and sent them to the federal stockpile, VA official says" by Lauren Edmonds.

Article: "Maryland GOP governor is hiding his state's testing kits in an undisclosed location so Trump can't seize them" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Hospitals say feds are seizing masks and other coronavirus supplies without a word" by Noam N. Levey.

Article: "Officials in at least 6 states are accusing the federal government of quietly diverting their orders for coronavirus medical equipment" by Mia Jankowicz.

Article: "Miami-Dade County misses out on 1 million N95 masks when feds scoop up shipment" by Douglas Hanks.

Article: "Pritzker arranging secret flights from China to bring millions of masks and gloves to Illinois" by Frank Main.

Article: "EXCLUSIVE: Feds About To Bail On Supporting COVID Testing Sites In Texas And Other States" by Josh Kovensky.

Quote: "When you do testing to that extent, you are gonna find more people, you're gonna find more cases. So I said to my people slow the testing down please. They test and they test. We have tests that people don't know what's going on" - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "'I don't kid': Trump says he wasn't joking about telling officials to slow down COVID-19 testing" by Grace Panetta.

Article: "Operation Warp Speed" by Wikipedia.

Article: "1 in 4 rural hospitals is vulnerable to closure, a new report finds" by Dylan Scott.

Article: "Louis Pasteur" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joseph Lister" by Wikipedia.

Article: "West Virginia Gov. Forces Top Health Official To Resign After Questioning Accuracy Of COVID-19 Data" by Zoë Richards.

Article: "'Watching TV and whining': Trump scorched for 'rage-tweeting Fox News' after 'largest daily increase in COVID-19 cases ever'" by David Badash.

Article: "Trump throws Twitter tantrum after 'nobody' on Fox News defends his widely criticized Bible photo op" by Brad Reed.

Article: "Governor Extends Hawai'i's 14-Day Quarantine for International and Out-of-State Arrivals to July 31" by Wendy Osher.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Hawaii" by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S. supports legal challenge to Hawaii traveler quarantine" by AP.

Article: "Trump is headlining fireworks at Mount Rushmore. Experts worry two things could spread: virus and wildfire." by Juliet Eilperin, Darryl Fears and Josh Dawsey.

Article: "Nero" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "Who knows what this means, but it sounds good to me!" (retweeting pic of him fiddling) by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Donald Trump thinks warm weather will stop coronavirus-here's why he's wrong" by Jeremy Rossman.

Article: "Here are all the treaties and agreements Trump has abandoned" by Zachary B. Wolf and JoElla Carman, February 1, 2019.

Article: "Trump Administration Confirms U.S. Is Leaving Open Skies Surveillance Treaty" by Bill Chappell.

Article: "Trump-appointed head of media agency sued over firings at anti-censorship organization" by Tyler Olson.

Book: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays by Bandy X. Lee.

Article: "This College Football Team Had No Coronavirus Cases at First. Then It Shut Down." by Billy Witz.

Article: "Kuwaiti oil fires" (1991) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fact check: Trump falsely claims Obama left him 'nothing' in the national stockpile" by Jane C. Timm.

Article: "How the Tea Party's war with Obama left the federal medical stockpile unprepared for coronavirus" by Isaac Arnsdorf, Yeganeh Torbati.

Article: "Exclusive: Lee Atwater's Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy" by Rick Perlstein.

Article: "Stephen Miller (political advisor)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Melania Trump's parents become citizens through 'chain migration'" by AP.

Article: "Donald Trump prefers immigrants from Norway but more Americans move to Scandinavia than vice versa" by Jonas Bergman.

Hour Two: Is the Dollar Doomed?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Understanding Marxism / Understanding Socialism

Article: "'A scary number' of retail companies are facing bankruptcy amid the coronavirus pandemic" by Brian Sozzi.

Article: "Here's one more economic problem the government's response to the virus has unleashed: Zombie firms" by David J. Lynch.

Article: "Financial crisis of 2007-08" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Great Depression (1929 - 1930s) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Usury - United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Collateralized debt obligation" (CDO) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Collateralized loan obligation (CLO)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The next big problem for the economy: Businesses can't pay their rent" by Heather Long.

Article: "42 million unemployed and huge losses" by MBS News.

Article: "Will the Banks Collapse?" by Frank Partnoy.

Quote: "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters." - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)" by Mayo Clinic.

Article: "How the Coronavirus Death Toll Compares to Other Deadly Events From American History" by Olivia B. Waxman, Chris Wilson.

Article: "Austria Has 90% Drop in Coronavirus Cases After Requiring People to Wear Face Masks" by Science Times.

Article: "Two Missouri hairstylists with coronavirus saw 140 clients in their salon, but no one got infected" by Anna Medaris Miller.

Article: "Fear mounts Trump may pressure FDA to rush Covid-19 vaccine by election" by Tom McCarthy.

Article: "Guillain-Barré syndrome" by Wikipedia.

What Will November Voting Look Like?
- Greg Palast, The Guardian / Investigative Journalist/Author/Filmmaker, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy / His new book, How Trump Stole 2020 will be out on July 14.

Article: "Investigative Journalist Predicts How Trump Will Steal Election" by Chauncey DeVega.

Article: "The Long History of Lines" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Chaos In Primary Elections Raises Fears For November" by Pam Fessler.

Article: "'Georgia Was Not Ready for This Election'" by Mark Joseph Stern.

Article: "Interview: Stacey Abrams Breaks Down Georgia's (Latest) Election Meltdown" by Joan Walsh.

Article: "Georgia measure would stop officials mailing ballot requests" by Ben Nadler.

Article: "MIT caltech study 21% not counted" by gregory Ferenstein.

Tweet: "RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR TIMES!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Do Mail-In Ballots Require Extra Postage?" by Kim Lacapria.

Article: "Rush to Vote-by-Mail could cost Dems the Election" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Hitler's secret addiction to crystal meth: The Fuhrer took 'Breaking Bad' drug before ranting at Mussolini... and in his last days in the bunker" by Claudia Joseph.

Article: "Jim Jones" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tom Arnold Claims Donald Trump Snorted Adderall on 'The Apprentice' Set" by Daniel Moritz-Rabson.

Article: "Bill Maher: Trump Is A Whiny Little B**ch" by John Amato.

Video: Trump addresses crowd of young Americans at Arizona rally - FULL.

Article: "Trump Signs Executive Order Attempting To Restrict Liability Protections Of Internet Companies Like Twitter" by Matt Perez.

Article: "Facebook And Twitter Keep Censoring President Trump As A Way To Prepare For The Upcoming Election. Here's Why I'm Worried" by John Brandon.

Article: "Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Is it time to regulate or nationalize Facebook?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Trump Is Lying More Than Ever: Just Look At The Data" by David Markowitz.

Article: "Black Lives Matter leader wants to burn down America" by David Kamioner.

Tweet: "Black Lives Matter leader states, "If U.S. doesn't give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it". This is Treason, Sedition, Insurrection!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Black woman claims white men wearing Hawaiian shirts set her on fire at Wisconsin stoplight" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Boogaloo militia members have infiltrated the US military - and they're aiming to overthrow the American government" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "A Black Progressive Beat A 16-Term Democrat In A Heated New York Congressional Primary" by Addy Baird, Ryan Brooks.

Tweet: "I'm a Black man raised by a single mother in a housing project. That story doesn't usually end in Congress.
But today, that 11-year old boy beaten by police is about to be your Representative.
I can't wait to get to DC and cause problems for those maintaining the status quo." by Jamaal Bowman.

Article: "'They Just Dumped Him Like Trash': Nursing Homes Evict Vulnerable Residents" by Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Amy Julia Harris.

Article: "Doctors unleash on politics as coronavirus spikes: 'No other country debates masks'" by Javier E. David.

Book: How Wealth Rules the World: Saving Our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property by Ben Price.

Article: "Judge Tosses Trump Family Attempt to Block Mary Trump's Tell-All" by Lachlan Cartwright, William Bredderman.

Article: "US health officials believe 20M Americans have had COVID-19, a number 10 times greater than 2.3M confirmed cases" by AP.

Article: "Texas Gov. Abbott pauses reopening, suspends elective surgeries amid surge in COVID-19 cases" by Nicole Cobler.

Article: "These are the states requiring people to wear masks when out in public" by Allen Kim, Scottie Andrew and James Froio.

Article: "NASCAR releases image of noose found in Bubba Wallace's garage, says concern was 'real'" by ESPN News Services.

Article: "Dietrich von Choltitz Was The German General Who Refused To Destroy Paris, Hitler Wanted Him Shot" by Sidney Mucheru.

Article: "White House intensifies effort to install Pentagon personnel seen as loyal to Trump" by Missy Ryan, Paul Sonne and Josh Dawsey.

Article: "Texas is on the verge of a Covid crisis: Houston's largest hospital's ICU is 97% full as daily cases surge to record highs and expert predicts 'herd immunity may be the only way to stop the virus'" by Mary Kekatos.

Article: "How Trump's promotion of mask stupidity could lose him the election" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Growing number of North Carolina sheriffs say they won't enforce statewide mask order" by Mark Price.

Article: "Richard Mack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess the President by Dr. Bandy Lee.

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