“That Was A Full Retreat Wrapped In Trumpian Bluster”: Networks Call Out President’s Latest Claims And Blames On Coronavirus

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By Ted Johnson After a 24 hours in which President Donald Trump compared himself to Captain Bligh from Mutiny On The Bounty in asserting his “total” authority over states, he shifted course.

The decision, he said on Tuesday, actually lies with the states themselves. He just didn’t say that in so many words. At Tuesday’s coronavirus press briefing at the White House, as questions loomed over how the U.S.

would reopen vast sectors of the economy, Trump told reporters that “I will be speaking to all 50 governors very shortly, and I will then be authorizing each individual governor of each individual state to implement a reopening, and a very powerful reopening plan of their state at a time and in their manner as most appropriate.” What some