President Trump now knows that the price of reopening the country will be tens of thousands more lives -- and it's one he now appears ready to pay | Analysis by stcollinson
It's one he now appears ready to pay, if not explain to the American people, at a moment of national trial that his administration has constantly underplayed.Depressing new death toll projections and infection data on Monday dashed the optimism stirred by more than half the country taking various steps to reopen an economy that is vital to Trump's reelection hopes and has shed more than 30 million jobs.
Trump, however, prefers, as always, to dwell in the universe that is most conducive to his political hopes. He stepped up attacks on China for covering up a crisis he predicted would never be a problem for the US despite available evidence. He effectively accused the intelligence agencies and his own subordinates of not briefing him on the virus until late January. Even if that is true -- and well sourced reports suggest it is not -- there was ample news coverage about a possible new pandemic.
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