.MaddowBlog: White House contradictions make coronavirus crisis worse
, in reference to the outbreak,"I think that's a problem that's going to go away.... We're fortunate so far and we think it's going to remain that way."
Much of the public has come to realize that the American president has a strained relationship with the truth. Fair-minded observers know that Trump's claims are routinely false, in part because he has an unfortunate habit of lying, and in part because the nation's first amateur president is often confused about the events unfolding around him.
In our day-to-day activities, Trump's total lack of credibility has become the background noise of our political lives. We know to take everything he says -- on subjects large and small -- with a grain of salt. But when there's a public-health emergency, and the White House and the CDC are delivering very different messages to the public, this isn't just routine political nonsense emanating from the nation's capital.to emergencies like these, and now the president and his aides are struggling to keep their stories straight.
Adding insult to injury, acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf faced some good questions about the outbreak during a Senate hearing yesterday and he struggled mightily to inspire confidence. Indeed, it was
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