{"id":163316,"date":"2020-10-05T15:51:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T13:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/10\/05\/donald-trump-condemned-for-covid-stunt-insanity-as-us-approaches-7-5m-cases-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2020-10-05T15:51:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T13:51:17","slug":"donald-trump-condemned-for-covid-stunt-insanity-as-us-approaches-7-5m-cases-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=163316","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump condemned for Covid stunt 'insanity' as US approaches 7.5m cases \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"

President at hospital overnight after putting staff \u2018at risk\u2019Walter Reed physician among critics of Trump drive-by visitNiece says president sees illness as sign of \u2018unforgivable weakness\u2019Poll: Trump 14 points behind Biden month before electionSign up for Fight to Vote \u2013 our weekly US election newsletter 2.46pm BST Sources told CNN that Trump had demanded to be released from the hospital on Sunday. Trump, as ever, is concerned about the optics of staying in the hospital, according to CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta. He worries the visual of him being hospitalized \u201cmakes him look weak,\u201d a source told the network. 2.35pm BST Donald Trump said in March he \u201cdidn\u2019t have a lot of time\u201d to meet the top public health expert Dr Anthony Fauci for a briefing about the coronavirus outbreak that was then gathering pace, according to a new recording released by the reporter Bob Woodward.The Guardian\u2019s Martin Pengelly has a nice summary on the latest tape to be released by the veteran journalist, whose interviews with Trump revealed that the president was aware of the dangers of the virus in February even as he downplayed its seriousness publicly. Related: Trump told Woodward he ‘didn’t have a lot of time’ to meet Fauci as virus spread Continue reading…
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President at hospital overnight after putting staff \u2018at risk\u2019Walter Reed physician among critics of Trump drive-by visitNiece says president sees illness as sign of \u2018unforgivable weakness\u2019Poll: Trump 14 points behind Biden month before electionSign up for Fight to Vote \u2013 our weekly US election newsletter 2.46pm BST Sources told CNN […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}