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It's a bit of a stretch to say he 'killed 14 million people' with absolutely no proof besides hit pieces on the now defunded NPR.

Many of these people that claim to have been affected by the cuts live in war-torn countries. Shouldn't this fall on the shoulders of their government? Why are they poor and destitute with no medical care to begin with?

“No proof” is an interesting way to say “lots of proof I am unwilling to engage with intellectually”. I note that you were unable to find any fault with the NPR pieces and instead tried to distract by talking about political attacks on their funding, apparently hoping that readers weren’t going to know that NPR was simply reporting on a serious article in a top journal:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

As for other governments, yes, the failed ones deserve criticism but the Trump administration broke legal commitments in their rush to prevent aid from reaching people. If your neighbor leaves their home due to an abusive spouse, you don’t get to shift blame to the original abuser when you kick them out in the middle of the night – it just means the victims have been failed again.

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