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Trump now in open dispute with health officials as virus rages
July 9, 2020
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Daniel Jenkins
Five months into a still-raging pandemic that has killed more than 130,000 Americans, the long-simmering tensions between President Donald Trump and the health experts who staff his government have escalated from private griping to shrugging disagreement to now open dispute.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/08/politics/trump-fauci-cdc-redfield-experts-coronavirus/index.html
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