Trump defends coronavirus record in first post-COVID rally

Sanford, Fla. • Defiant as ever about the coronavirus, President Donald Trump on Monday turned his first campaign rally since contracting COVID-19 into a full-throated defense of his handling of the pandemic that has killed 215,000 Americans, joking that he was healthy enough to plunge into the crowd and give voters “a big fat kiss.”There was no social distancing and mask-wearing was spotty among the thousands who came to see Trump’s return to Florida. He held forth for an