Coronavirus live updates: Former FDA commissioners deliver rare rebuke to Trump administration

September 30, 2020 at 1:30 AM EDT
Biden hammers Trump on coronavirus response in chaotic debate
By Antonia Farzan
Tuesday night’s chaotic presidential debate gave Joe Biden numerous opportunities to hammer President Trump on a critical weakness — his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Seizing on the administration’s scattered crisis response, Biden said that the president “panicked” and downplayed the seriousness of the virus, a strategic blunder. He urged Trump to “get out of your bunker and get out of the sand trap and your golf course” and work with both political parties to provide Americans with economic relief and adequate supplies of protective gear. Placed on the defensive, Trump repeatedly insisted that the White House had done a “phenomenal job.”
The two candidates later traded barbs over reopening the economy, with Trump baselessly claiming that Democratic governors were waiting to lift shutdown orders in place until after the election,