AP FACT CHECK: Trump`s empty assurance on controlling virus
(World News USA)

WASHINGTON (AP) — “We have it totally under control,” President Donald Trump said in late January. A month later: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA.` April and May brought the deadliest stretch of COVID-19 to date. And this past week, the number of new coronavirus cases per day hit an all-time high of 50,000. Trump persisted in his empty assurances. The virus is “getting under control,` he said Wednesday. His press secretary described the surge in many parts of the country as “embers.” The president acknowledged “flames” here and there. They cast word confetti over a pandemic that has killed more than 128,000 people in the U.S., while the president talked up a July...