Trump Is on a Collision Course
Lindsey Graham is among the president’s allies who don’t want him to quickly reopen the country. He says the president should “err on the side of human life.”
Senator Lindsey Graham called President Donald Trump this morning to confer about the massive stimulus bill nearing passage on Capitol Hill. But when Trump said that Democrats had “overplayed their hand,” Graham offered some advice.
“Don’t you do the same thing,” he told his occasional golfing buddy.
Graham worries that the president will move too hastily to try to reboot the virus-stricken economy—loosening social-isolation measures and thereby triggering more disease and death. “He has a predisposition that the cure is worse than the disease,” Graham told me. Should Trump repudiate public-health experts’ advice and take steps that cause infections to spike, he would “own” the
