Trump offers boasts and insults at CDC press conference on coronavirus – as it happened – The Guardian, Theguardian.com
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Trump used a freewheeling CDC press conference , intended to provide updates on the coronavirus, as an opportunity to attack Democrats, praise his own intelligence, lash out at CNN and spread false and misleading information about the status of the outbreak.
The president made
false statements about the availability of tests .
Trump also said He wanted exposed passengers to remain on a cruise abroad so that the number of cases wouldn’t increase in the US.
Trump’s re-election campaign sued CNN for publishing an opinion piece that argued Trump did not stop Russia from helping the campaign during the presidential election.
In a newly released documentary, Bill Clinton claimed the reason for his extramarital affair with then White House intern Monica Lewinsky was “to manage [his] anxieties”.
The next debate will be Biden v Sanders , with the latest qualifications ensuring Tulsi Gabbard, who is still a candidate, will not join them on the stage.
He replaces Mick Mulvaney, who was acting chief, and who will now become the US special envoy for Northern Ireland, Trump said in his Friday evening tweet: Donald J. Trump (@ realDonaldTrump) … .I want to thank Acting Chief Mick Mulvaney for having served the Administration so well. He will become the United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland. Thank you!
March 7 ,
Mulvaney was a key figure During the impeachment proceedings .
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Trump announces Mark Meadows as chief of staff
Trump has just announced Congressman Mark Meadows
as his new chief of staff , replacing Mick Mulvaney:
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