Title: Drinking the Kool-Aid: Trump echoes Jim Jones by declaring “Don’t Be Afraid of Covid” | The Milwaukee Independent
Headings: Drinking the Kool-Aid: Trump echoes Jim Jones by declaring “Don’t Be Afraid of Covid”
Drinking the Kool-Aid: Trump echoes Jim Jones by declaring “Don’t Be Afraid of Covid”
“Don’t Be Afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate our life.” – President Donald Trump
“Go home, my darlings! Sleep tight!” – Reverend Jim Jones
“The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA.” (February 24, 2020)
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Content: Just after that, Jones ordered his followers to drink the tainted Kool-Aid. The first to be forced to do so were the children. People who refused were shot to death and many fled into the jungle to escape the mass suicide. Survivor Laura Johnston Kohl remembered years later “We – all of us – were doing the right things but in the wrong place with the wrong leader.” The roots of the tragedy that would befall nine hundred Americans thousands of miles from home can be traced to the early years of Jones’s life. As a child growing up in Indiana Jones is said to have been very manipulative and performed ritualistic experiments on animals and held mock funerals for them as well. A childhood friend and neighbor Chuck Wilmore told the makers of a 2006 documentary that he thought Jones was strange. “ He was obsessed with religion; he was obsessed with death. A friend of mine told me that he saw Jimmy kill a cat with a knife.”