Alva Review-Courier -

WASHINGTON (AP) — Explaining his deceptive assurances about the pandemic, President Donald Trump suggested he was doing what Winston Churchill had done, soothing the public in a time of danger. That's not how it went down in World War II.

Churchill did not tell Britons that Nazi Germany was "under control " or that, "like a miracle, it will disappear," to cite Trump's words on the virus.

The British prime minister spread fear, as well as resolve, as he summoned Britons to national purpose against the "hideous apparatus of aggression" enslaving swaths of Europe and soon to be "turned upon us."...