The president initially scoffed at the coronavirus. Now he seems persuaded he can lead- and reassuring four more times in November
Bill Clinton used to lament that his time as US president was broadly peaceful, and lacked a historic test of his mettle. Donald Trump believes that his minute has arrived: a crisis on a par with producing a nation at war.
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