Chasm grows between Trump and government coronavirus experts

In the early days of the coronavirus crisis, President Donald Trump was flanked in the White House briefing room by a team of public health experts in a seeming portrait of unity to confront the disease that was ravaging the globe. Trump and his political advisers insist that the United States has no rival in its response to the pandemic. “Right now, I think it’s under control,” Trump said during an interview with Axios.