The Financial Times excoriates the saboteur-in-chief for killing tens of thousands of Americans by treating the truth with contempt.

This is the voice of a 1970s Republican, who wants to increase business profits but not by mass slaughter.

It is interesting to compare China's Covid-19 cover-up with America's Covid-19 cover-up. China's cover-up was done by low-level officials who were afraid of being punished because the problem appeared in their department. America's cover-up was done by the highest officials, people who rarely tell the truth about anything.