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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
Commerce secretary says ‘I think it will help accelerate the return of jobs to North America, some to the US’ Wilbur Ross at Davos last week. The coronavirus has killed more than 170 people in China. Photograph: Alessandro Della Valle/EPA The US commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, said in an interview on Thursday that the coronavirus […] More
