Washington, Sep 11 (TIWN) Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has called US President Donald Trump's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic "disgusting" and "almost criminal", after it was revealed that the latter had downplayed the virus' threat earlier this year, the media reported on Friday.

Yesterday, more explosive reports surfaced from Woodward, who said that the president’s allies had tried to reign in Trump’s “over-the-top” and “childish” foreign policy. So fearful was the former defence secretary James Mattis over Trump’s incensing of North Korea that he slept in his clothes and installed a flashing light and bell in his bathroom, in case a nuclear missile was launched when he was in the shower.