Michelle Goldberg: Trump’s deliberate coronavirus deception

Recordings, real or rumored, have been a leitmotif of the Trump era.There was the “Access Hollywood” tape, in which Donald Trump confessed to his proclivity for serial sexual assault. The fabled “pee tape,” the existence of which would have been pornographic proof of Russiagate, haunted the first few years of the Trump presidency.James Comey hoped there were recordings of what he described as Trump’s mafialike efforts to suborn him. (“Lordy, I hope there are t