White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended President Donald Trump’s insistence that schools reopen in the fall, saying Thursday that scientific findings about COVID-19 won’t “stand in the way” of resuming in-person instruction. “The science should not stand in the way of this.”It was a shocking moment. He’s now pushing for all US schools to resume in-person lessons soon despite cases surging across the country. Bizarrely, McEnany defended Trump by pointed to schools reopening in countries that are light-years ahead of the US in terms of slowing the pandemic. “Of course we can do it,” she said of reopening all schools.

Source: Huffington Post July 16, 2020 21:11 UTC