Carl Bernstein Brands Trump As ‘War Criminal’ For Capitol Riot And Pandemic Deaths

Legendary journalist Carl Bernstein on Sunday bashed former President Donald Trump as a “struggle legal” for “fomenting a coup,” and blasted him for mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s time to “step again” and take a transparent have a look at Trump “in a special context,” Bernstein advised Brian Stelter on CNN’s “Dependable Sources.” 

Trump is “our personal American struggle legal, of a sort we’ve by no means skilled earlier than,” he mentioned.

“What we’re speaking about Trump’s crimes as an American struggle legal … that he has perpetrated upon our individuals, [includes] the tens of hundreds of people that died due to his personal homicidal negligence” regarding COVID-19, mentioned Bernstein. He “put his personal electoral pursuits above the well being of our individuals, as they had been slaughtered on this pandemic,” he added.

Because the virus started to unfold all over the world in February 2020, Trump insisted that it will “disappear” like “a miracle.” After he contracted the illness and acquired glorious and experimental well being care remedy, he advised Individuals to not “be afraid of COVID.”

Thus far, practically 611,000 Individuals have died of the illness. 

Bernstein, who is understood for his reporting on the Watergate scandal that introduced down former President Richard Nixon, went on to say that Trump’s “struggle crimes” additionally embody “fomenting a coup to carry onto workplace,” referring to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. He famous that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers Mark Milley has in contrast Trump to Hitler, and his supporters to the Nazi brownshirts.

“It’s not nearly impeachable offenses. It’s a couple of totally different type of crime through which the humanity of the individuals of the USA was relegated to the ground by the president of the USA, who uplifted solely his personal slender political, monetary and private pursuits above that of our individuals, of our nation, of our Structure,” Bernstein mentioned.

Trump couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.

Try the “Dependable Sources” clip up prime.