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Coronavirus as a Cudgel: NYT’s Baker Spreads Anti-Trump Fever on Front Page

Posted on 09 March 2020

On the front of Monday’s New York Times, Peter Baker savored how the coronavirus had become a political headache for President Trump: “Twitter Pulpit Is No Match For Viral Foe.” Baker raises some defensible criticisms of some of Trump’s statements (while only briefly noting vital steps the President took over indignant liberal opposition). But Baker’s overall tone matched the feverish anti-Trump exaggeration typical of Baker (remember John Bolton’s “smoking gun”?).