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 “war criminal” for “fomenting a coup,” and blasted him for mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic.

Carl Bernstein

It’s time to “step back” and take a clear look at Trump “in a different context,” Bernstein told Brian Stelter on CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” Trump is “our own American war criminal, of a kind we’ve never experienced before,” he said.

“What we’re talking about Trump’s crimes as an American war criminal ... that he has perpetrated upon our people, [includes] the tens of thousands of people who died because of his own homicidal negligence” concerning COVID-19, said Bernstein. He “put his own electoral interests above the health of our people, as they were slaughtered in this pandemic,” he added.

As the virus began to spread around the world in February 2020, Trump insisted that it would “disappear” like “a miracle.” After he contracted the disease and received excellent and experimental health care treatment, he told Americans not to “be afraid of COVID.”