How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-mitch-mcconnell-became-trumps-enabler-in-chief

On Thursday, March 12th, Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, could have insisted that he and his colleagues work through the weekend to hammer out an emergency aid package addressing the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, he recessed the Senate for a long weekend, and returned home to Louisville, Kentucky. McConnell, a seventy-eight-year-old Republican who is about to complete his sixth term as a senator, planned to attend a celebration for a protégé, Justin Walker, a federal judge who was once his Senate intern. McConnell has helped install nearly two hundred conservatives as judges; stocking the judiciary has been his legacy project.

Draining the swamp - New Yorker Chronicles How McConnell Propped Up Trump WH | Morning Joe | MSNBC

Trump's poll numbers dip over handling of coronavirus pandemic

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/10/trump-poll-numbers-dip-handling-coronavirus

Support for Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus has plunged over the past week, polls show, as some of his advisers and Republican allies are said to be concerned over the US president’s daily briefings on the pandemic.

CNN Poll of Polls: Trump's approval ticking down on coronavirus response

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/10/politics/cnn-poll-of-polls-trump-approval-coronavirus-general-election-biden/index.html

A new CNN Poll of Polls out on Thursday finds President Donald Trump's approval rating and the public's approval of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic trending down in the last month.

Trump's averaged approval rating stands at 46% approve, 49% disapprove -- ticking down from 48% approval in late-March.

 

 

 

 

Top hospital head to 'Post': Coronavirus strategy failed

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/health-ministry-strategy-failed-senior-health-official-tells-post-623682

 

The Health Ministry’s strategy for tackling the coronavirus crisis is a failure, the head of one of Israel’s leading hospitals told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday as the ministry announced it had fallen far below its original test target, leaving the country without an end in sight for its isolation strategy.

“We are in the third week of isolation and the numbers continue to rise – and in big numbers,” the senior official said. “We need to think about another strategy. Isolation has not brought us any good.”

Only One President in the Last 20 Years Wasn’t Worried About a Pandemic

https://thebulwark.com/newsletter-issue/only-one-president-in-the-last-20-years-wasnt-worried-about-a-pandemic/

 

On March 30, President Donald Trump went onto the most important news venue in America, Fox & Friends, to defend his handling of the coronavirus outbreak. Here is a thing he said:

“Nobody could have predicted something like this . . .”

This is false.

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