2020-04-10 12:20:00
Donald Trump is continuing to assure Americans living under stay-at-home orders that the US economy will soon see a “big bounce” – despite an unprecedented number of families now seeking emergency relief from food banks across the country.
More Americans have died of coronavirus this week than in the entire Iraq War, which claimed the lives of more than 4,500 US troops between 2003 and 2011. The president is meanwhile under fire for his latest attack ad linking Democratic rival Joe Biden to China, the short promo mistakenly identifying Asian-American former Washington governor Gary Locke as a Chinese dignitary.
Mr Trump was set to appear at a White House press briefing on Friday afternoon with his coronavirus response task force, as the nation nears a death toll of 17,000 due to the novel virus.
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