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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 4448991" data-attributes="member: 54375">Trump’s video montage suggested that media figures were downplaying the risk while the president was taking action. In reality, Trump was attending <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-trump-was-doing-as-coronavirus-was-rapidly-spreading-2020-4" target="_blank">campaign rallies</a>, playing <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lincoln-project-trump-golf-rallies-impeachment-covid-19-coronavirus_n_5e8f9d97c5b6b371812df09c" target="_blank">golf</a> and <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-botched-delayed-coronavirus-response_n_5e9315c0c5b69ededcf2d2b5" target="_blank">downplaying</a> the risk himself in his public statements <a href="https://www.axios.com/trump-coronavirus-warnings-46ea8006-2e19-4810-82c1-0f10f4f9aa97.html" target="_blank">despite being warned</a> by<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/?arc404=true" target="_blank"> aides and experts</a> about the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-response.html" target="_blank">urgent need</a> for <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-coronavirus-response_n_5e6ab657c5b6bd8156f4183d" target="_blank">action</a>.The president declared on Jan. 22 that coronavirus was “totally under control,” on Feb. 10 predicted it’ll “go away in April” and on Feb. 26 said the number of cases “within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 4448991, member: 54375"] Trump’s video montage suggested that media figures were downplaying the risk while the president was taking action. In reality, Trump was attending [URL='https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-what-trump-was-doing-as-coronavirus-was-rapidly-spreading-2020-4']campaign rallies[/URL], playing [URL='https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lincoln-project-trump-golf-rallies-impeachment-covid-19-coronavirus_n_5e8f9d97c5b6b371812df09c']golf[/URL] and [URL='https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-botched-delayed-coronavirus-response_n_5e9315c0c5b69ededcf2d2b5']downplaying[/URL] the risk himself in his public statements [URL='https://www.axios.com/trump-coronavirus-warnings-46ea8006-2e19-4810-82c1-0f10f4f9aa97.html']despite being warned[/URL] by[URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/04/04/coronavirus-government-dysfunction/?arc404=true'] aides and experts[/URL] about the [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-response.html']urgent need[/URL] for [URL='https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-coronavirus-response_n_5e6ab657c5b6bd8156f4183d']action[/URL]. The president declared on Jan. 22 that coronavirus was “totally under control,” on Feb. 10 predicted it’ll “go away in April” and on Feb. 26 said the number of cases “within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” [/QUOTE]

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