What Trump could learn from Merkel about dealing with coronavirus | Analysis by fpleitgenCNN
Berlin President Donald Trump shocked not just Americans but many around the world with his insistence this week that -- at least insofar as reopening his country's coronavirus-wracked economy is concerned -- his "authority is total."
With apparent disregard for the US Constitution, which confers sweeping powers to state-level authorities, Trump cried "mutiny" after Democratic governors objected to his pronouncement. One such governor, New York's Andrew Cuomo, whose state has borne the brunt of the Covid-19 outbreak in the US, said the President was"clearly spoiling for a fight on this issue." The President later backed down, in part at least.
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