The revelations of journalist Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book on September 15 could not have come at a worse time for Donald Trump. Again questioned about a virus whose lethality he publicly relativized in February, while he privately made alarming remarks, recorded with his assent, the President of the United States finds himself on the defensive about ‘an epidemic whose management earned him the harsh judgments of his fellow citizens. During a brief press briefing on Thursday, September 10, he was thus forced to deny having “Lied” to the Americans, before getting angry with the journalist who asked him the question.
Distanced for months by his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, at the national level as in the determining states for the election of November 3, even if his margin is smaller, Donald Trump has been trying for weeks to place the question of security in the heart of the countryside. Deprived of the flattering record on which he was banking due to the economic crisis caused by the virus, devoid of the slogans that had marked his 2016 campaign (the construction of the wall on the border with Mexico, the removal of Obamacare), the President also strives to get the maximum benefit from the Oval Office by increasing the number of announcements.
” On the right track “
“We remain on track to deliver a vaccine before the end of the year and maybe even before the 1er November “, or just before the presidential election, he said at a press conference on September 4. “We think we will probably be able to have it during the month of October”, he asserted. This announcement caused confusion given the coincidence with the election. She pushed nine companies launched in the development of a vaccine to make a public commitment Tuesday to respect the highest scientific rigor.
The same day, during a visit to Florida, Donald Trump brutally extended the ban on new drilling currently in force in the Gulf of Mexico, to the coasts of this state traditionally disputed during the presidential elections as well as those of two Republican strongholds, Georgia and South Carolina. All three states were opposed to it.
In July, during a trip to Texas, Donald Trump had bragged about having “Reopened public lands and offshore areas to oil and gas exploration”. On August 17, he approved a program paving the way for oil and gas drilling in the country’s largest protected natural area, Alaska.
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