Donald Trump “stands without any real rivals as the worst American president in modern history,” writes the editorial board. Today, we are publishing a special section to remind readers why President Trump is unfit to lead the nation. nyti.ms/37dIhiS
“From his first days in office, President Trump has waged a relentless and cynical campaign against the institutions most responsible for turning science into sound policy,” @JInterlandi writes nyti.ms/31eMwXI
Corruption and self-dealing have “come to define this president, his family and much of his administration,” writes @mcottle. “Mr. Trump will be remembered for assembling a world-class Team of Grifters.” nyti.ms/3nYDcRy
"A president’s words are among his most powerful, and potentially dangerous, tools," @jessewegman writes. "They can move global financial markets, start wars — and embolden violent individuals." nyti.ms/31umCzt
“‘From this day forward, it’s going to be only America first,’ Mr. Trump warned in his Inaugural Address. Today, what that meant is clear in the decline of American leadership and the hallowed American brand,” writes Serge Schmemann. nyti.ms/3k5YrhM
Ultimately, “the mess the nation faces is bigger than Donald Trump,” @fstockman writes. “If he is voted out in November, the people who cast ballots for him will remain, pining for the policies he promoted.” nyti.ms/357kVZo
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Donald Trump stands without any real rivals as the worst American president in modern history. He is a man unworthy of the office he holds, writes the editorial board. nyti.ms/356M8M8
Donald Trump’s ruinous tenure has gravely damaged the United States at home and around the world. nyti.ms/356M8M8
Donald Trump has subsumed the public interest to the profitability of his business and political interests. He has shown a breathtaking disregard for the lives and liberties of Americans. nyti.ms/356M8M8
Two of the nation’s oldest scientific publications — Scientific American and the New England Journal of Medicine — have waded into the morass of electoral politics for the first time in their more-than-100-year histories, notes @JInterlandinyti.ms/2IAyAkd
Donald Trump "has lied, again and again, about the severity of threats the country is now facing — be they from climate change or the pandemic — even as reams of evidence make those threats plain," writes Jeneen Interlandi nyti.ms/2IAyAkd
Donald Trump is "a president who muzzles credible scientists and amplifies charlatans. One who suggested on live television that UV light and bleach injections might cure people of the coronavirus." nyti.ms/2IAyAkd
NEW: The New York Times editorial board endorses @JoeBiden for president: ”His campaign is rooted in steadiness, experience, compassion and decency" nyti.ms/3nnpmI0
“In the midst of unrelenting chaos, Mr. Biden is offering an anxious, exhausted nation something beyond policy or ideology” nyti.ms/3nnpmI0
As president, Joe Biden “would stand with America’s allies and against adversaries that seek to undermine our democracy. He would work to address systemic injustices.” nyti.ms/3nnpmI0
"Mother Nature has been synthesizing weird and wonderful medicinal chemicals for over three billion years, many of which chemists could not predict or devise in their wildest dreams.
“We’re going to work with all of our students who are drowning in debt to take the pressure off these young people.” — Donald Trump in a speech on July 21, 2016 nyti.ms/3h21oh2
“I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.” — Donald Trump in a speech on June 16, 2015 nyti.ms/3h21oh2
“It is time to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C. This is why I’m proposing a package of ethics reforms to make our government honest once again.” — Donald Trump, Oct. 17, 2016 nyti.ms/3h21oh2
"The economics of this moment are not complicated: A self-sustaining recovery cannot occur unless the virus is controlled," write Janet Yellen, former chair of the Federal Reserve, and @econjared. nyti.ms/3gsxTVv
Data is showing consumer spending slowing overall and deteriorating conditions for low-income households, who have become more anxious about how they will pay for their rent and their food. nyti.ms/3gsxTVv
"These numbers reflect the confluence of at least 3 forces: acceleration of the spread of the virus; expiration of the supplemental federal unemployment benefits; and the ending of various eviction moratoriums," write Yellen and Bernstein. nyti.ms/3gsxTVv