Facing a spike in coronavirus cases, deepening unemployment and his own political isolation, President Trump lashed out at his enemies Thursday but offered no clear guidance for a nation in crisis.
The final Thursday in June saw jobless claims top 1 million for a 14th straight week and a frightening spike in coronavirus infections across the Sun Belt, compelling a growing number of Republican governors and members of Congress to issue urgent public health warnings.
In his comments at shipbuilding firm Fincantieri Marinette Marine, Trump said that Democrats are tougher to deal with than China and North Korea, two adversaries with which he has conducted mostly unsuccessful negotiations. Biden ripped Trump for pushing states to reopen quickly to revive a sputtering economy that Trump had hoped would be the central pillar of his reelection argument.
The state’s two Republican senators also urged the Trump administration to reconsider its decision to cut off federal funding next week for 13 coronavirus testing sites, seven of which are in Texas.“Now is not the time to end a program that is working and successfully increasing testing capacity — especially for underserved communities in the state,”from a group called Republican Voters Against Trump accuses the president of giving up.
“The Fake News and phony Fake Suppression Polls have never been worse. The Lamestream Media has gone CRAZY,” TrumpEarlier, Trumpa Fox News host for not defending him after a pundit stated that Trump had put “the entire country in play for Democrats,” and attacked one of his 2016 Republican primary rivals, Carly Fiorina, after she said she would vote for Biden.
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