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Infections in Britain have risen to levels that were not noticed in months. After a chimney swept through a refugee camp in Greece, homeless migrants fear what will come next.
President Trump held an indoor election rally sunday for the first time since last June, when he once gave the impression in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to which the past slept blamed the increase in the number of coronavirus cases in the region. The rally, held at an outdoor production plant in Las Vegas, defying a state board that restricted indoor meetings to less than 50 people, brought together thousands of fans of the president, the vast majority of whom were not dressed in masks.
Steve Sisolak, Governor Democrat of Nevada, said on Twitter that Trump is “taking reckless and self-centered measures” that endanger the lives of state residents. “It is an insult to each and every Nevada resident who has followed the instructions, sacrificed themselves and put their neighbors before them,” he said. It is also a direct risk to all the recent progress we have made and can potentially push us back. “
Trump’s crusade had reviewed several outdoor sites, but all had been blocked by the governor, according to a management official familiar with planning. Tim Murtaugh, spokesman for the crusade, defended the inner stage, saying in a statement: “If you can sign up for tens of thousands of people protesting on the streets, gambling in a casino, or setting fire to small business riots, you can meet peacefully under the First Amendment to hear the president of the United States.
Early in the day, the White House and Republican officials struggled to answer scathing questions from Sunday morning news reporters about why Trump knowingly minimized the coronavirus in the early months of the pandemic, as journalist Bob Woodward revealed in his new book, “Rage. “. “
White House industrial adviser Peter Navarro said in CNN’s “State of the Union” that “no one knew” how harmful the virus was when the president spoke to Woodward in February and March. In fact, Navarro himself wrote a memorandum last January warning Trump management officials that the virus can charge the United States billions of dollars and make millions of Americans sick or die.
Ronna McDaniel, chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, provided another defense of the president, saying Trump understood the serious risk posed by the virus in early February, but “quiet, normal, and methodical” because he didn’t need to. cause panic.
Presenter Chuck Todd called the president’s defenders saying, “You don’t yell at the chimney if you’re in a crowded movie theater. “
“That’s true, ” he said. But you do if the theater is on fire. “
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former Commissioner of the Trump Food and Drug Administration, reported on CBS’ “Face the Nation” program that the president might have chosen to minimize the severity of the virus in the component because he obtained erroneous data from the beginning of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other fitness agencies.
“I had a lot of conversations with the White House at the time because I was worried it would spread,” Dr. Gottlieb said, “and I was continually told that they were listening to senior firm officials who were pretty confident that it wasn’t spreading here.
In an interview with “60 Minutes” broadcast Sunday night, Woodward talked about the interviews he recorded with the president and said Trump warned of danger at a January 28 assembly through Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger.
Pottinger said his contacts in China had told him, “It will be like the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic that killed another 675,000 people in that country,” Woodward said.
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