Media Covering Coronavirus to 'Bring Down the President,' Mulvaney Claims

[Arkansas Granny]

Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, on Friday blamed the media for exaggerating the seriousness of coronavirus because “they think this will bring down the president, that’s what this is all about.”

Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of conservative activists, Mr. Mulvaney played down concerns about the virus that is spreading around the globe and panicking investors.

Mr. Mulvaney said the administration took “extraordinary steps four or five weeks ago,” to prevent the spread of the virus when it declared a rare public health emergency and barred entry by most foreign nationals who had recently visited China.

“Why didn’t you hear about it?” Mr. Mulvaney said of travel restrictions that were widely covered in the news media. “What was still going on four or five weeks ago? Impeachment, that’s all the press wanted to talk about.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/us/politics/cpac-coronavirus.html?referringSource=articleShare

This is pathetic. Trump and his cohorts are using this disease as a political tool.

[Turbineguy]

1. Trump doesn't need the competition

when it comes to bringing him down.