February 28, 2020

Mick Mulvaney just broke his own rule.

The acting White House chief of staff accused the media on Friday of stoking fear over coronavirus as a plot to take down President Donald Trump, warned of potential school shutdowns and appeared to chastise investors for monitoring news coverage of the outbreak.

The freewheeling commentary at a conservative activist conference in Maryland contradicted instructions he had given a day earlier to bring order to the administration’s coronavirus messaging strategy by routing it through the office of Vice President Mike Pence.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/28/mick-mulvaney-blames-the-media-for-coronavirus-panic-118133