Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney criticized the establishment media on Friday for crashing the stock market and panicking the American people with their coverage of the coronavirus.
“The reason you’re seeing so much attention to it today, they think that this is what’s going to bring down the president,” he said.
Mulvaney said that Congress and the media, not the administration, were asleep at the switch, pointing to the distraction with impeachment when the virus threat was emerging.
He said the administration held briefings with Congress about the coronavirus six weeks ago, but only five senators and about 10-15 members of the House showed up.
