Chapter 4: Coronavirus Response

Even as he puts his White House cronies on the board of the Kennedy Center, Trump criticizes its funding in the latest COVID relief bill.  Pam Bondi, who took an illegal $25,000 donation from Trump to drop prosecution in the Trump University suit,...

A working paper from Stanford University researchers concludes that the communities that hosted Trump rallies "paid a high price in terms of disease and ...

The President holds another superspreader event as state cases spike.

With each dismissive comment he makes about his own experience with the virus, the president minimizes the suffering of an ever-growing share of Americans.

I knew — felt in my gut — that Trump’s reign of chaos would be, well, chaotic. But sheeee-ite, I never thought it would be this bad. And I can be a pretty dark guy. But gosh, I’m not a psychopath. I don’t watch snuff films. I don’t enjoy videos of...

Plus: How our COVID response stacks up to the rest of the world.

Trump continues to mock science even as the Chinese show what it can do.

Everyone should have access to quality care, especially in the middle of a pandemic.

The doctor’s “60 Minutes” appearance showed a man happy with one wife, the hair God gave him, and a government job. To the president, all this makes him a sucker.

The president also claimed the economy is rising "like a rocket ship," a claim belied by ongoing layoffs and widespread economic suffering.

The nation's leading expert in infectious diseases has asked for a video that takes his words out of context to be removed.

Here’s what’s happening Monday in Election 2020, 22 days until Election Day: HOW TO VOTE: AP’s state-by-state interactive has details on how to vote in this election. TODAY’S TOP...

Secret Service agents are ready to take the president where he wants to go, even if it means putting their bodies in front of a bullet. But that guiding principle has been tested in recent days by President Donald Trump,...

President Donald Trump had just concluded a hurricane briefing with local officials in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in August when Republican Sen. John Kennedy approached the President with a request for autographs from local law enforcement officials.

Among the subplots and grotesqueries of President Trump’s response to COVID-19 outbreak in the White House is: When did Trump know he was sick? COVID-19 is a highly contagious pathogen. Once possible exposure is identified best practices for containment are…

This is what happens when you don’t take a deadly virus seriously. Who knows who infected Adm. Charles Ray, but the blasé attitude that’s afflicted so many in Trump’s orbit appears to be imperiling our readiness: When Trump went down with COVID, I...

During the pandemic, the president has expressed confidence that the virus would quickly go away and skepticism over the effectiveness of face coverings.

At a news conference on Monday, White House doctor Sean Conley refused to answer questions about when President Trump last had a test for COVID-19 that returned negative.

Hours before he was released from a hospital stay for his coronavirus diagnosis Monday, President Trump tweeted his thoughts on the pandemic that's killed over 210,000 Americans, saying, "Don't be afraid." Many of them slammed the president's cavalier sentiment and warned that it

Trump has downplayed and dismissed not only the disease, but measures like mask-wearing and social distancing recommended by his own experts. Now he is s...

"Now is not the time to be euphemistic about Trump's recklessness. His disregard for basic health protocols has been bad not just for himself and his staff, but also for countless Americans."

Mask-wearing had become rare among the president’s staff, and he rejected precautions before he tested positive.

Testing is important, but it's not enough to keep the virus in check.

Trump’s incompetence, and that of everyone he has chosen to surround him, don’t qualify as breaking news.  But, with the election just one month away, one can hardly imagine a more clear and obvious demonstration of what competence actually...

A new clash between Donald Trump's political goals and his duties to public health threatens to deprive America of presidential leadership in the critical weeks that will decide if a second wave of Covid-19 swamps the country this winter.

The president's illness brought sympathy, but boosted the prognosis that the U.S. is a mess.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis was a moment of reckoning for his Republican Party, whose leaders largely adopted his strategy of playing down the disease but are...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stricken by COVID-19, a feverish and “fatigued” President Donald Trump was taken to a military hospital Friday after being injected with an experimental antibody cocktail at the...

The president's New Jersey fundraiser has prompted Gov. Phil Murphy to initiate contact tracing and urge attendees to get tested for the coronavirus.

The president worried that a public show of concern would create panic and imperil his reelection—but instead, his approach enabled the virus’s spread.

The president has tested positive for Covid - we've looked at what he's said about the virus.

A new study from Korea has some bad news for COVID-19 survivors like me, and the six million other Americans who recovered from coronavirus. 90% of recovered coronavirus patients experience side-effects, study says The FINANCIAL -- Preliminary study by...

Trump's lies, failures and denials during a public health crisis meet the legal standard for second-degree murder

Our View: Donald Trump and his administration aren't the only ones to blame in how America is losing against the coronavirus pandemic.

Trump said “nothing more could have been done” about covid-19, but nothing is further from the truth.

As the U.S. Covid-19 death toll passed 200,000 on Monday, the Government Accountability Office published a report arguing that "timely and concerted federal leadership will be required" to respond to the challenges posed by the combination of an already-strained public health system, the current hur

"Trump and his cowardly enablers, they all have blood on their hands," said an activist who lost his father to Covid-19.

This global pandemic has revealed there’s already a virus inside some American forms of belief.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday sat down with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos for a town hall meeting in Philadelphia. Trump was asked about downplaying the COVID-19 pandemic. “Well, I didn’t downplay it it,” Trump falsely claimed. “I actually, in many aways, up-played it in terms of action,” Trump argued. “Did you not admit it […]

The questions were tough. But the president kept responding with falsehoods. Here's a guide to 24 of them.

Trump has risked his followers' lives and damaged the credibility of science — and for what? It's not nearly over

The COVID-19 coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, has killed more than 924,000 people worldwide — and at least 194,000 of those deaths are in the United States. The fact that the U.S. has become the COVID-19 hotspot of the world isn’t lost on liberal/progressive filmmaker

In what may be a new record for President Donald Trump, he made four false claims in one sentence of a tweet on Saturday.

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"These lies demoralized the scientific community and cost countless lives in the United States," wrote Herbert Holden Thorp, editor in chief of Science magazine.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Public health officials were already warning Americans about the need to prepare for the coronavirus threat in early February when President Donald Trump called it “deadly stuff”...

"The president is on record lying," Kristin Urquiza, whose father died of COVID-19, told The Arizona Republic. "It’s undeniable, and it’s inexcusable."

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's comments on the threat posed by the coronavirus have varied widely depending on whether he was speaking in public or private.

President Donald Trump is now not just downplaying the coronavirus -- he’s resorting to absurd historical allusions about great World War II leaders to try to disguise his culpability in 190,000 American deaths.

"Nearly 200,000 Americans are dead and more than 6 million have been infected with Covid-19 because of the administration's disastrous response, but Trump's top priority is showering giant corporations with deregulatory special favors," says Matt Kent of the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen.