Irish Examiner view: No scrutiny means no democracy

What a relief it would be if it was possible to believe that US president Donald Trump had, as he kicked his golf balls out of the rough at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, a Damascene conversion and belatedly acted on the advice of Anthony Fauci, the WHO, and many other experts on infectious diseases, before he announced the media will be barred from America’s Republican Party national convention.

Trump is expected to be endorsed as the GOP candidate for a second White House term later this month. A Trump spokesman, as America’s Covid-19 deaths hover around 160,000, cited coronavirus restrictions for this unprecedented blackout.