Sixteen minutes after news broke that the coronavirus pandemic had led to America's sharpest economic contraction in modern history, President Donald Trump made an extraordinary suggestion to delay the Nov 3 presidential election.
The idea was swiftly shot down by allies of Mr Trump, who had played up - without any evidence - the spectre of voting-by-mail fraud.
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