Trump facing $1 trillion lawsuit over massive COVID-19 death toll in US

Donald Trump hit with $1 trillion lawsuit over massive COVID-19 death toll in US Under Him.

Arnett Thomas never thought he would be battling Donald Trump in court.  

After all, Thomas is a convicted murderer. He spent two decades in a variety of New Jersey prisons before his release in 2000. 

But sometimes it takes a guy who knows something about wrongdoing to understand when something is wrong.

This is how Thomas, now 71, disabled and living in a government-sponsored housing complex in Orange, came to file a lawsuit in federal court in Newark that blames Trump for America’s massive — and growing — COVID-19 death toll.

“The former president literally became the very domestic enemy to the Constitution he swore to defend,” Thomas wrote in his 29-page class-action lawsuit, which now includes more than 75 co-plaintiffs.

So far, Trump has not responded.

But Thomas is talking.

For starters, Thomas says he’s looking for $1 trillion from Trump as a punishment for the nearly 570,000 deaths in America from COVID-related causes under Trump, as well as the ancillary economic and psychological problems for many others who lost jobs or fell into a deep depression from too much home confinement.

“The point of all of this is how Trump dealt with the pandemic,” Thomas said in an interview. “He drove people to dying.”

“Everything Trump has done since he’s been in office has been really shady and all backwards and messed up,” said one of the lawsuit’s co-plaintiffs, Kyani Robinson, 21, a landscaper who lives in Roselle and happens to be one of Thomas’ nephews.

“Trump allowed the disease to spread,” Thomas added. “What he did was politically motivated. If Trump would have handled this pandemic in a proper way, he would have been elected [again]. Trump got kicked out because of the way he handled it.”

In his lawsuit, Thomas calls Trump “the domestic enemy to the United States Constitution.” Along with “an unprecedented partisan relationship” with “Republican legislators and Republican supporters,” Thomas goes on to accuse Trump of creating a “three-pronged Faustian deal with the devil.” As a result, Thomas describes Trump’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic as “criminal.”

Thomas points to what he calls Trump’s openness to a medical concept known as “herd immunity” as especially troubling. Thomas claims that Trump and his advisers were open to letting the disease spread, in the belief that as more Americans became infected before a vaccine was developed, people would develop a “herd immunity” to the virus.              

The problem here, as Thomas points out, is that the disease killed people, too. Yes, those who contracted the virus and survived developed immunity. But as this “herd” of immune survivors grew, many others perished. 

Trump “is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people across the expanse of America, by deploying and unleashing a natural herd immunity experiment which would contribute to five million reported COVID-19 cases and five hundred thousand deaths,” Thomas wrote in his lawsuit.