Trump news: Documents reveal payouts from Secret Service to president's properties as he is roundly attacked for coronavirus comments and misleading Facebook ads
Donald Trump has reacted angrily after being criticised for calling in to Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Wednesday night to contradict the World Health Organisation on the coronavirus death rate, declaring: “I think the 3.4 per cent number is really a false number. Now this is just my hunch, but based on a lot of conversations... personally, I’d say the number is way under one per cent.”
Even the president’s key Republican ally Lindsey Graham has since encouraged him to “listen to the scientists” following his latest ill-advised pronouncement on the global crisis, which came on the same day the House of Representatives approved an $8.3bn (£6.4bn) emergency funding package to thwart the spread of the disease.
The president joined his Republican allies in condemning Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, who rallied abortion rights activists at the Supreme Court on Wednesday and told Republicans and the recently appointed conservatives on the bench that they'll "pay the price" if they overturn constitutionally protected abortion protections.
"Schumer has brought great danger to the steps of the United States Supreme Court!" the president claimed on Twitter.
Meanwhile, his field of opponents seeking the Democratic presidential candidacy has slimmed with Elizabeth Warren becoming the latest casualty of the 2020 race.
She suspended her campaign following a poor showing on Super Tuesday when a resurgent Joe Biden romped to a 10-state win and the Massachusetts senator failed to win even her own state.
The president used the moment to hurl a slur at the former candidate.
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