Trump news - live: President claims he has seen evidence coronavirus came from Wuhan lab and says he would consider bringing back Michael Flynn

Donald Trump was up late on Twitter again on Wednesday night continuing to stew over negative press coverage of his administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, attacking TV news anchors Brian Williams, Don Lemon and Joe Scarborough, saying of the former he “wouldn’t know the truth if it was nailed to his wooden forehead”.

With the US death toll from the outbreak now soaring beyond 60,000, the president’s latest briefing at the White House on Wednesday saw him refuting a claim he himself had made just a day earlier that the country would “soon” be hitting 5m tests for Covid-19 per day.

Keen to resume 2020 campaign rallies, Trump also said the government would not be extending its social distancing guidelines expiring on Thursday while his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, predicted the country would be “really rocking again” by July in a Fox News interview in which he also pronounced the rate of American fatalities “a great success story”.

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