Published 12:46 IST, May 13th 2020

Trump 'most corrupt US President'; accused of 'toxic fog of lies' by Republican strategist

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on US President Donald Trump over his inefficiency in handling the COVID-19 crisis. 

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Republican strategist Steve Schmidt on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on US President Donald Trump over his inefficiency of handling COVID-19 crisis. In a series of Tweets, Schmidt pointed out everything that Trump has done to mishandle crisis "at an epic level". According to strategist, USA is being smored under a "toxic fog of lies."  

Calling him " most corrupt President in American history", Schmidt said that Trump has "risen on racist birr conspiracy." Furr attacking President, he said that Trump does t kw concepts of ethics, hor, decency, and selflessness.

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Trump-Obama comparison 

Republican strategist furr me a comparison and said that Barack Obama's Presidency did t have a single criminal indictment. He ded that Obama h me America stronger during his tenure. However, according to Schmidt, Trump, in coming months, will start a war on reality and truth, and that he will be supported by "an echo chamber of dishonesty." 

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Trump defends

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump earlier while speaking to reporters in South Lawn outside White House h said that his government did many things right to contain spre of coronavirus orwise country could have lost more than 2 million lives. When he was asked wher he was worried that states are relaxing guidelines too early, he h said that he is t worried because model assumes mitigation.

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Coronavirus crisis in US

Leing number of worldwide cases of vel coronavirus COVID-19 infection, United States is by far country with highest COVID numbers, surpassing China, Italy, and Iran. Currently, re are a total of 1,408,636 cases of Coronavirus with around 83,425 deaths. Meanwhile, New York --  one of worst-hit spots in US, has seen a total of 27,175 deaths and over 348,655 COVID-19 positive cases.

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12:46 IST, May 13th 2020