Washington DC: President Donald Trump has given his first
interview since he came to the White House after he contacted the coronavirus
last week. He briefly stayed at Walter Reed Medical Centre in Bethesda, Maryland.
He garnered criticism from the press and the opponents after he had returned to
the White House so soon after he contacted the virus. The First Lady, Melania
Trump also tested positive for the coronavirus last week and was airlifted to
Bethesda along with the President. In the last few days, more than 10 people
have been tested positive for the virus, all of whom belong in the Trump’s most
inner circle. In the interview with the Fox News, the President questioned the
required Biden’s credentials and the acumen to run a country and went onto
accuse of Democratic Party Vice Presidential Nominee and Biden’s running mate
as a communist and socialist.
Days before he was tested positive for the coronavirus, the
two opponents, Biden and Trump met in Cleveland, Ohio, for the first
presidential debate which held heated arguments and drew controversy from the
press and justified ire from the American public. The Biden campaign focused on
the inability of containing the coronavirus by the Trump Administration and
particularly how the current government downplayed the severity of the virus
even though scores of people have had been dying across the world due to the
pandemic. President Trump was rarely if ever seen with a face mask which is
first on the first set of guidelines issued by world health experts to prevent
the virus from spreading.
On Wednesday, Vice-President Mike Pence went against Senator
Kamala Harris in the vice-presidential debate in Utah and Harris went onto argue
with Vice-President Pence how the Trump Administration has utterly failed the
American citizens during the ongoing pandemic and pledged that she and Biden
will form a comprehensive plan in the country’s battle against the pandemic by
wide-spread testing, contract tracing and the promise of distributing a vaccine
if it goes successfully through clinical trials. Trump Administration is
wrought through scandals since Donald Trump claimed the Presidential seat in
2016 US elections defeating then opponent, Hillary Clinton. Recently, The New
York Times had released the income tax returns of the President through an
anonymous leak. The documents showed that Trump had paid measly sums to the IRS
despite claiming as a successful businessman.
In the interview with the Fox News, Trump claimed that he is
fully fit to run the daily operations of the Presidential office and the electoral
campaign as well. He also dismissed the idea of having a virtual debate against
Biden before the elections and Biden responded by saying that if the debate
doesn’t go through, he will be answering to voter questions. CNN Polls had shown
that Trump was trailing Biden badly. The American citizens will go to the polls
on November 3rd of this year.
