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Efforts to address the outbreak risk are being undermined by an exodus of scientists and a leader who regularly distorts facts The Trump administration’s jettisoning of scientific expertise and the president’s habit of spreading misinformation means the US is in a much weaker position to deal with the threat of coronavirus, experts have warned. There […] More
Putting Mike Pence in charge is proof that the White House wants to protect its political line, not protect Americans To effectively contain an outbreak, government decisions must be based on saving lives, not scoring political points. Last week, the White House announced that the vice-president, Mike Pence, will lead the coronavirus task force. The […] More
Vice-President is leading White House taskforce on outbreak Republicans are only ‘pushing back’, Pence claims Robert Reich: Trump’s cuts have made the danger far worse When Donald Trump Jr said Democrats hope coronavirus “kills millions of people” in the US because they want to bring his father down, he was merely “pushing back” at politicisation […] More
The president was in South Carolina where he falsely blamed ‘the Democrat policy of open borders’ for the outbreak Donald Trump attempted to link the coronavirus outbreak to Democratic immigration policies, calling the virus a “hoax” in a rambling speech in South Carolina, the night before the crucial Democratic primary. In a packed rally in […] More
The president is reacting to this disaster the way authoritarians always do – by covering up the facts and dodging the blame The coronavirus crisis is a war against a disease, but it’s also the most serious battle yet in the war on truth. That much was clear from the start, as China moved to […] More
Top Republican on Fox News defends Trump and Mike Pence Vice-president leading coronavirus containment effort in US Whistleblower: US coronavirus staff were untrained and unprotected Donald Trump could “personally suck” the coronavirus “out of every one of the 60,000 people in the world, suck it out of their lungs, swim to the bottom of the […] More
Trump’s pick met with outrage from experts who question vice-president’s record on health and say appointment ‘endangers us’ As an aspiring congressman, Mike Pence once claimed “smoking doesn’t kill”. As governor of the midwestern state of Indiana, he faced heavy criticism for his handling of the situation when the state experienced the worst HIV crisis […] More
Rightwing shock jock rails at ‘effort to bring down Trump’ More than 2,700 people have died from virus worldwide The coronavirus outbreak is being “weaponised” by the media to bring down Donald Trump when in fact it is simply a version of the “common cold”, the conservative radio host and presidential medal of freedom recipient […] More
