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In Relief-Bill Talks, ‘Donald From Queens’ Isn't Much Help
As deadlines bear down, the president is making unhelpful demands and indecipherable proposals.
Around and around.
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As tempting as it is to talk about President Donald Trump’s instinctive corruption or to analyze his enthusiasm for deploying federal law enforcement against the wishes of mayors and governors or to note his latest defiance of the courts and the Constitution or his recurring falsehoods about the pandemic or even to speculate about why he had warm words for someone accused of assisting a sexual predator, I can’t help it: I’m stuck on his inability to perform some of the more basic aspects of his job.