The petition charges the president with using the coronavirus press conferences as an opportunity to hold a "live campaign rally."
Nearly 100,000 people have signed a petition calling on news outlets to stop the un-edited airing of President Trump's coronavirus briefings, alleging he's using the televised White House briefings as a"live campaign rally."
Story continuesRochman, who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, said the president's briefing"hit a nerve," and she didn't realize"how many people were having that same nerve pinched." "The My Pillow guy just said a prayer about how great Trump is and I can't watch this anymore," Scott Dworkin, a co-founder founder of the Democratic Coalition, tweeted Monday after the president at the beginning of his Monday press conference invited business leaders like Mike Lindell, CEO of pillow manufacturing company MyPillow, to speak about how private companies were working with the administration in an attempt to combat COVID-19.
Trump has used the White House briefings to lash out at journalists While the coronavirus briefings have been a source of information from White House leaders, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Deborah Birx, the Coordinator of the United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS, they have also served as an opportunity for the president to criticize journalists and his political adversaries.
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