ADAD“The threads of our civic life could start unraveling, because everybody’s living in a tinderbox,” said historian and Rice University professor Douglas Brinkley. Police at one point took a CNN correspondent and crew into custody on live TV, though they were later released. A Washington Post national average of polls in May shows Trump trailing Biden by seven points, 42 percent to 49 percent. “And Trump does not want it to be the summer of covid-19.”Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, said Trump seemed to be exacerbating the crisis. And at a time when what is most needed is thoughtful, calm, deliberate leadership, we have the opposite.”

Source: Washington Post May 30, 2020 00:24 UTC