While the United States is still struggling to cope with the COVID-19 crisis, President Donald Trump and his right-wing media allies have been distracting themselves by whipping up hazy and dubious allegations about the origins of the Russia investigation. They’ve targeted members of the Obama administration and former President Barack Obama himself with strained accusations.
In a weekend Twitter rant, Trump himself declared the previous administration carried out the “biggest political crime in American history, by far!” But he was extremely vague about what he meant. (Trump has previously alleged that treason was carried out against him, but there’s no sign he actually knows what that would entail.)
So when he appeared in the White House Rose Garden on Monday to address reporters, Washington Post reporter Phil Rucker asked him directly what he’s been talking about. Continue reading.
President Donald Trump once again hastily called a press conference held literally minutes after news broke that the U.S. has had its first coronavirus-19 death, in Washington state. Trump by most accounts did not inspire confidence, He also understated the number of people in the U.S. confirmed to have been infected by this new novel coronavirus. But perhaps most disturbing, many say, is Trump once against did not inspire confidence as he rambled and rattled off words that did not seem to make much sense.