Coronavirus criminals and pandemic profiteers : accountability for those who caused the crisis / John Nichols.

"In 2020, hundreds of thousands of coronavirus deaths were caused not by the vicissitudes of nature but by the callous and opportunistic decisions of powerful people, as revealed here by John Nichols"-- Provided by publisher

During the COVID-19 epidemic, hundreds of thousands of deaths were caused not by the vicissitudes of nature but by the callous and opportunistic decisions of powerful people. Nichols shows how President Donald Trump, his inner circle and others downplayed the crisis and mishandled the response. Profiteers fed at the public trough and added pandemic profits to grotesquely bloated fortunes. There must be accountability-- and Nichols is not afraid to name names. -- Adapted from jacket.

London ; New York : Verso, 2022.

xv, 320 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: Accountability is a dish best served fresh, and hot -- Introduction: In the name of Mike Jackson -- The killing presidency of Donald Trump -- Mike Pence: Yes-man of the Apocalypse -- The grounding of Jared Kushner -- The unmasking of Mark Meadows -- Mike Pompeo's cold war against science and solidarity -- How Betsy DeVos tried to leverage a pandemic to privatize public education -- Elaine Chao let them die -- Mitch McConnell's fatal bargain -- How Rand Paul got Covid-19 wrong, wrong, and wrong again -- Have another shot of hydroxychloriquine, Ron Johnson -- The Kristi Noem nightmare -- Ron DeSantis's imperial overreach -- Andrew Cuomo's broken halo -- The deadly delusions of Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Rebecca Bradley -- That time Rahm Emanuel offshored America's ability to fight a pandemic -- Pfizer's vaccine profiteering -- Drowning Grover Norquist's anti-government delusion in the bathtub of his own hypocrisy -- The pandemic profiteering of Jeffrey Preston Bezos -- Conclusion: The United States of impunity.