29 May World looks on in horror as Trump flails over pandemic – Guardian US

British Foreign Policy Group research was quoted in the US Guardian, as President Trump made claims that the US is ‘leading the way’ on the global Covid-19 response.

The article said:

A survey this week by the British Foreign Policy Group found 28% of Britons trusted the US to act responsibly on the world stage, a drop of 13 percentage points since January, with the biggest drop in confidence coming among Conservative voters.

Dacian Cioloș, a former prime minister of Romania who now leads the Renew Europe group in the European parliament, captured a general European view this week as the latest statistics on deaths in the US were reported.

“Post-truth communication techniques used by rightwing populism movements simply do not work to beat Covid-19,” he told the Guardian. “And we see that populism cost lives.”

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