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cidrap, “Well, it probably could have been worse. Having a czar does make you feel there’s somebody in charge. At least Trump didn’t come before the cameras and announce solemnly, ‘Today I’m asking every American to cross your fingers,’” Collins wrote. “Our president had to be going crazy over a problem that involves both declining stock prices and germs. This is the guy, after all, who thinks shaking hands is ‘barbaric,’ who is followed around by aides bearing sanitizer,” Collins wrote.
cidrap - TRUMP SUES NEW YORK TIMES FOR LIBEL OVER RUSSIA 'CONSPIRACY' OP-ED The Times columnist then mocked Trump for blaming the financial markets on Democrats, misspelling coronavirus in a tweet, telling Americans that things are under control and not being as prepared as his predecessor. “Barack Obama used to have special epidemic-watching groups just in case this kind of crisis developed,” Collins wrote. “Chances are, if the president is encouraged to mix the subjects of coronavirus and Mexico walls, he’ll suddenly announce that we need a barrier much bigger and thicker and more expensive, so it can stop the flow of immigrant germs,” Collins wrote to end her column.
cidrap, NEW ANTI-TRUMP RUSSIAN 'BOMBSHELL' FIZZLES -- NOW THEY'RE SAYING RUSSIA WANTS BERNIE TO WIN Critics mocked the piece on Twitter. CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE The column was published one day after the Trump campaign filed a libel lawsuit against what it called the extremely biased New York Times, saying the paper's March 27, 2019 op-ed titled “The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo amounted to a knowingly false smear intended to improperly influence the presidential election in November 2020.
cidrap - They did a bad thing, Trump said at a coronavirus press conference later Wednesday, before apparently promising more litigation. There will be more coming. There will be more coming.” Fox News’ Gregg Re and Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.
cidrap - Carl Goldman and Jeri Seratti-Goldman are being held under quarantine separately after Carl was diagnosed with coronavirus and Jeri tested negative for the disease. A couple separated by a coronavirus quarantine joined Bill Hemmer Reports Thursday to update the public on their condition as they mark their tenth day in isolation. Carl Goldman, one of 11 American evacuees from the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship who tested positive for the coronavirus, told Hemmer that he was recently transferred from the biocontainment facility to the quarantine unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.