Trump Launched a Coronavirus Economic Council Without Telling Members They Were on It

If an economic recovery task force is composed of members who didn’t know they’d been placed on it, does it really exist? That’s the question President Donald Trump confronts a day after he and his staff announced a lengthy list of business heavyweights, labor leaders, celebrities, informal Trump advisers, “thought leaders,” and defense contractors who, they implied, would be working in conjunction with the president to nudge the country back to work in the face of a rising body count, a crashing economy, and public-health officials and governors’ dire warnings. Trump proudly touted his “Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups” during a White House press briefing in the Rose Garden...