Opinion: As the coronavirus burns, Trump scores a perfect Nero
when he retweeted a fanciful image of him playing a violin with the words “nothing can stop what’s coming.”
While Trump fiddled, a former Trump appointee was on TV telling the truth about the coronavirus crisis. Former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb, on CBS’s “Face the Nation,”urgent, “broad mitigation strategies” that over the next two weeks would “change the complexion in this country.” He said businesses, gatherings, theaters and events would need to be closed to keep the health-care system from becoming “exhausted,” as happened in Wuhan, China.
Gottlieb has been correct so far. Four weeks ago, when Trump was still talking about the virus being well contained,Instead of listening, Trump and his administrationprecious weeks, The Post’s Ashley Parker, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Lena H. Sun reported, during which public health officials tried to do their jobs even as Trump “became a font of misinformation and confusion.”
That sounds a lot like what Judge Walton saw in the Justice Department’s “dubious” handling of the Mueller report’s release. In his order, he questioned whether “Barr’s intent was to create a one-sided narrative” that was “at odds with” the report.This wasn’t Walton’s first such experience.
”-style attacks on McCabe, later adding: “I think as a government and as a society we’re going to pay a price at some point for this.”The Washington Post is now the only place you can read my columns online.
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