DONALD Trump spoke early on at the coronavirus task force briefing to say that CDC Director Robert Redfield had been misquoted in a recent headline by the Washington Post.

He hit out at the ‘ridiculous’ headline, calling it ‘fake news’ and slamming CNN’s coverage of the story.

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