The coronavirus whistleblower complaint proved to us that Trump has become a very desperate president

The president let us know he is willing to let his core supporters get very sick, and expects them to vote for him even if they have to pull an oxygen tank into the voting booth with them, says John T Bennett

Donald Trump tours a factory producing N95 masks in Phoenix, Arizona, on 5 May 2020 (AFP/Getty)

We did not learn much about Donald Trump the president from the latest coronavirus-related whistleblower complaint. But we learned something about Donald Trump the candidate.

Rick Bright, the ousted former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, said in a complaint filed on Tuesday that he “encountered resistance from HHS leadership, including Health and Human Services secretary [Alex] Azar, who appeared intent on downplaying this catastrophic event”.

Bright also stated that he clashed with Azar and other White House-appointed health officials when he raised concerns about hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug Trump has called a “game-changer” treatment for Covid-19 for over a month, even though studies have found it to be largely ineffective.