A book claims that Trump offered to send Guantán …

A book written by two journalists from Washington post make sure that former United States President Donald Trump, (Photo) offered to send compatriots infected with the coronavirus abroad to the Guantanamo military base. According to the authors, Yasmeen Abutaleb Yes Damien paletta, the mogul reportedly suggested the idea up to twice in February last year, when the World Health Organization (WHO) had yet to declare the pandemic situation and known cases of covid-19 were concentrated on the Asian continent.

“We don’t own any islands? Why don’t we send them to Guantanamo? We’re importing goods, we’re not going to import viruses.”, would have declared the former American president during a meeting with his closest collaborators at the White House. Excerpts from the book were published by the Washington Post, one of the major US newspapers most critical of Trump throughout his tenure, especially for his handling of the pandemic.

According to the survey, which included more than 180 interviews with people close to the former president, those in the room reacted “dumbfounded” to the idea and they told the author that “it would generate a refusal to quarantine tourists from the United States at the same base in the Caribbean where the country holds terrorism suspects.”

The book, titled Nightmare scenario: In the Trump administration’s response to a history-changing pandemic, also tells this episode a “chaotic and often rude” decision-making process in the White House, charged with “struggles for power”.

Another book, published in 2019 by Miles Taylor, a former national security official, reported that Trump had suggested sending immigrants to Guantanamo. According to the author, The ex-president proposed to designate all migrants who enter the country without permission as “enemy combatants” and then send them to maximum security prison..

In the military enclave the United States has in Cuba, there are only 40 of the nearly 800 detainees it housed after it opened in 2002 ordered by then President of the United States, George W. Bush, in response to the attacks of September 11, 2001.