As ever, Donald Trump was transparent about his motive for misleading the American people. He told a cabinet meeting about the “catastrophe” in Spain. “It looks like an invasion of a country. Hundreds of thousands of people,” he said.
“And that same thing’s going to happen to us if the Republicans don’t get elected.” He is worried about the midterm elections in three months’ time, in which the Democrats are currently projected to win both the House of Representatives and the Senate.