“But it was the result of DC carefully boxing him into impossible positions.”
The CDC sure played their part, but it looked to me like it was Fauci and Birx calling the shots (no pun intended).
It was either cooperate with the lockdowns and “science”, OR it was 24/7 wall to wall, that every single death would be meticulously explored on TV and Fauci and Birx explaining how Trump made this happen.
He tried to appease and play along, and then fell for the “two weeks” scam.
He got played on that, but they did have him heavily boxed in.