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Facts don’t care about Trump’s feelings
JOHN WIGHT breaks down the President’s breakdown in scrupulous detail, explaining what China and the WHO actually said — and what the US failed to do
President Donald Trump has sought to blame China for the Covid-19 pandemic to distract from his own government's disastrous response

IN THE midst of a global pandemic Donald Trump has gone berserk.

While attacking China and the WHO abroad — more or less claiming that the latter is an agent of the former, with the former a dagger pointed at the heart of the world — he lashes out with increasing venom at the media at home for daring to ask uncomfortable questions.

His customary jeremiads and verbal broadsides against them are a now daily occurrence as he dissembles and deflects like a man whose meltdown is near complete.

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