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A New Jersey man has filed a $1 trillion class action lawsuit accusing former President Donald Trump of failing to protect Americans from excess deaths due to the COVID-19 epidemic.
Lead plaintiff, Arnett Thomas, and others filed the nationwide class action lawsuit in New Jersey federal court on behalf of those who died of COVID-19 and their loved ones, as well as those who contracted the virus and suffered financial, social, and other damages from the pandemic. Thomas claims that the former president forced Americans unwittingly into an experiment with herd immunity as coronavirus began to spread across the country in early 2020.
Thomas accuses Trump of violating Americans’ rights to due process under the Constitution by embarking on this alleged experiment.
“I think Americans had the right to opt-in or out in being used in that experiment,” Thomas told NorthJersey.com in an interview Wednesday about his class action. “Hundreds of thousands died because of that experiment and millions contracted the disease.”
The complaint states that “former President Donald Trump [,] handled and controlled COVID-19, through his Corna Virus Taskforce, headed by his Vice President Mike Pence, with such negligence, that his management of the Pandemic was criminal.”
Trump, claims the class action, was aware of the need for a nationwide lockdown in response to the spreading disease; however, the former president allegedly decided to resist these calls, instead, hoping his herd immunity experiment would help him win the November election.
The lawsuit accuses the former president of becoming “the very domestic enemy to the Constitution he swore to defend.” Specifically, Thomas claims that Trump allocated minimal federal resources to states to combat the pandemic and, in certain circumstances, “intentionally and maliciously” withheld funding from state governors.
In addition to allegations referring to other controversial statements made by the former president, as well as the riot at the Capitol Building on Jan. 6, Thomas claims that Trump unleashed a natural herd immunity experiment on the United States. This alleged experiment “would contribute to five million reported COVID-19 cases and five hundred thousand deaths,” states the complaint.
Thomas points out in his class action lawsuit other diseases that populations could not overcome using so-called natural herd immunity, including polio, smallpox, and tuberculosis. Thomas says that Trump’s alleged foray into herd immunity against coronavirus not only needlessly put lives at risk, it also resulted in nationwide lockdowns on schools and businesses, resulting in severe damage to the economy.
In addition to $1 trillion in damages, the class action also demands action from Congress in the form of legislation that would not allow this type of situation to happen again.
DO you think the Trump administration should have handled the coronavirus pandemic differently? Have you lost a loved one to COVID-19? Please tell us your thoughts in the comment section below.
Lead plaintiff, Arnett Thomas, is representing himself.
The Trump COVID Deaths Class Action Lawsuit is Thomas v. Donald John Trump, et al., Case No. 2:21-cv-03111-JMV-MF in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
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423 thoughts on$1T Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Trump Caused COVID Deaths
My uncle passed away from covid and myself contracted covid twice I suffer from long term covid now. please add me
My mom passed from COVID August 2020..I believe the misinformation that was being put out from this administration caused people to NOT believe COVID was real. She was a very healthy person. Would like to be added to this class action.
Please add me. I had Covid was in ICU for the first few days then in an Isolation room for about another 5 weeks and I was out of work for 7 months. I now have Long Covid.
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My brother and nephew died from Covid in Mississippi
At me I’m pretty sure my nephew died with covit 19 in November 2019 he had all the symptoms an I was sick in December 2019 with the same symptoms an given the Sam meds when I tested positive in June 2020 in witch I flat lined twice because I stoped breathing In my sleep my son tested positive in June only thing saved him was when they was experiment with the virus and the plasma as safe as I
I totally agree with this in December of 2019 I was a housekeeper. There was a family from a different country staying in one of the rooms. When they was leaving 2 of the males was wearing surgery 😷 at this time covid19 wasn’t a thing. So I honestly thought maybe they had a disease yes I shouldn’t of assumed but we are human. Within 2 days I was sick in bed couldn’t get out of bed for over a week. My employer fired me thinking I lied because I don’t have insurance and can’t afford health insurance. When I finally broke down a went to emergency room I was told it’s the flu. Covid I believe was out in October of 2019. I’m pretty much putting my life of that statement.
Add me please .I have had covid 19 4 times .left my job due to covid and job would not take me back