Lawmakers take partisan view of Trump downplaying COVID threat
In this March 31, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington as Vice President Mike Pence and Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator, listen. Trump acknowledged that, from early on, he was intentionally “playing down” the threat from the coronavirus outbreak that has since gone on to kill more than 190,000 Americans. (Alex Brandon/ AP file)
Shelby County’s Republican legislators defend President Donald Trump’s comments to author Bob Woodward while Democrats say he misled the nation.
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Sam Stockard
Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.
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