President Trump’s reelection bid has had a rough few weeks, with challenges coming from both his stewardship of the presidency and past controversies that may be catching up with him.
President Trump’s re-election bid has had a rough few weeks, with challenges coming from both his stewardship of the presidency and past personal controversies that may be catching up with him. Coronavirus is worsening in much of the country, he’s down in the polls, his response to the pandemic has been heavily criticized and he gets low marks from voters on race relations.
The troubling — and deadly — rise in coronavirus cases came as Trump has consistently minimized the threat and clashed with his own experts, including those at the Centers For Disease Control and Dr. Anthony Fauci. Trump’s efforts to downplay the virus were best symbolized by his rally in Tulsa, Okla., on June 20, which was the largest indoor event in the country since widespread mitigation measures began in March.
The booksThis summer has already seen a pair of high-profile books that excoriated Trump. In June, the president’s former national security adviser, John Bolton, released a tell-all that accused the president of asking Chinese leader Xi Jinping for help with his reelection effort, among other things. Bolton’s book was a blockbuster, with about 780,000 copies sold in its first week on sale.
And on Thursday, the court ruled that the Manhattan district attorney had the right to obtain Trump’s tax returns and business records, which the president has long fought to keep secret. To make matters worse for Trump, justices he appointed, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, broke with the president in some of the cases, with both siding with the court’s liberal members on the tax ruling.
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