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Coming to a theater near you — the unraveling of America…

Nikki Broadwell
2 min readApr 10, 2020

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Amidst the worst pandemic in modern times, or perhaps forever, our president is using his bully pulpit for campaign rallies to stir up his base. Not a new phenomenon, but one would think that the person in charge of the country wouldn’t be telling lies and suggesting dangerous drugs to take to cure Covid 19. People have died because of his lies. Apparently no one can stop the king. And every day he is not only out in front of the public spewing bullshit, but he is also in the shadows doing things you don’t know anything about.

Let’s talk about his pick for the head of the EPA — Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist. During the pandemic Andrew Wheeler has been ordered (not that he’s against it) to roll back safety measures because they might impact industry in a bad way.

At a time when we need clean air and clean water more than ever, Trump wants this ‘stupid useless’ agency gone. Why? Because the scientists there have studied and spoken out about climate change, a fact of our quickly encroaching future that Trump refuses to believe. Or if he really doesn’t believe it, he just wants to override the truth for his own profit and the billionaires who support him. Bailing out oil companies fits into this plan well.

And if that isn’t enough, he is linking Covid 19 aid to states based on how appreciative the governors are. Are you kidding me? No one is allowed to speak the truth for fear of reprisals. A leader who leads by bullying and fear is not a leader, he is a…

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Nikki Broadwell
Nikki Broadwell

Written by Nikki Broadwell

In my real life I’m a fantasy/mystery author. What I’ve written so far on Medium have been political opinion pieces. But that is changing!

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