Kristof: Trump has already made U.S. weaker, more vulnerable
President Donald Trump said in his inaugural address that he had “no higher responsibility than to defend our country.”
So what did Trump do on his first day in office? He made America weaker and more vulnerable.
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One of the threats looming over all of us is a viral disease that begins in a distant corner of the world, as we saw in the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak and in the coronavirus pandemic. A guardrail protecting us from pandemics is the World Health Organization, which works to stop viruses early in foreign countries, before they spread. Yet Trump announced on his first day that the United States will withdraw from the organization, elevating the risk that the next virus goes global and kills large numbers of Americans.
Trump is not entirely wrong when he accuses Democrats of sometimes having been too lax about law and order. Yet on assuming the presidency, he sided with domestic terrorists over law enforcement when he moved to free every person incarcerated for attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/kristof-trump-has-already-made-u-s-weaker-more-vulnerable/