A month ago, he insisted the coronavirus was “dying out” in the U.S. Today, Trump flipped his script with a grim new assessment of the pandemic — and at last applied an approach that aides implored him to take earlier in his pandemic response
Rather than limiting his engagement on coronavirus to boost the time he spends on more politically expedient topics, Trump and his aides are now expected to refocus his attention to the global pandemic and the next economic relief package currently underway on Capitol Hill.
Multiple polls conducted in late April, near the end of Trump’s briefing run, found growing levels of distrust in the president as a reliable source of information on the pandemic. President Donald Trump holds a press conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
When Trump took the podium on Tuesday, it was clear aides had persuaded him to strike a different tone. The president, who has struggled to define his 2020 opponent or outline a convincing message for reelection, veered off track only once to address a question about the recent arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell, an associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died by apparent suicide while in federal custody last summer.
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