Trump labels Birx 'pathetic' in tweet

One day after top health official Dr. Deborah Birx offered a sobering assessment of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., President Trump lashed out at her on Twitter, calling her “pathetic.” It was a stunning rebuke of Birx – coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force – who had previously been spared Trump’s public wrath. But her Sunday appearance on CNN, in which she warned that coronavirus infections are “extraordinarily widespread” in rura