Trump Slams Pandemic Restrictions

“As the presidential campaign entered the post-Labor Day sprint to the finish line, President Trump returned to a familiar theme this week: minimizing the threat posed by the coronavirus, sometimes in ways that contradict the advice of federal health authorities,” the New York Times reports.

“Mr. Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday morning to insist that ‘New York City must stop the Shutdown now‘ and then to claim that virus restrictions in other states were ‘only being done to hurt the economy prior to the most important election, perhaps, in our history.'”