8/1/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Enhanced unemployment benefits expired for millions overnight. We don’t have an effective [coronavirus] nationwide testing program or a plan to control the virus. Our health care workers still don’t have enough PPE. Enough with the weekend golf trips, Mr. President. Do your job.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 1, 2020 7:59 pm […]

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8/1/2020

HOUSING/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Rent is due today. Donald Trump abdicated his responsibility to lead us out of this COVID-19 crisis—and we now face a potential housing crisis because of it. Mr. President: Act now to make sure Americans don’t have to choose between a roof over their heads or food on the table.” -Joe […]

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8/1/2020

ECONOMY/HOUSING/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today is the first day of another month where rent and mortgage payments are due for millions of Americans who are already living on the edge. It comes a day after President Trump and Leader McConnell sent the Senate home for the weekend and allowed enhanced unemployment insurance, which millions of […]

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8/1/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I actually agree with this. Too much income disparity. Changes must be made, and soon! RT @businessinsider While 40 million Americans filed for unemployment during the #coronavirus pandemic, billionaires saw their net worth increase by half a trillion dollars“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 1, 2020 9:37 am […]

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8/1/2020

ENDORSEMENT/FLORIDA/POLICE/RALLY/SOCIAL DISTANCING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Jake, this wasn’t a Trump Rally, but rather a very successful gathering of the great Sheriffs and Law Enforcement (of Florida) who gave me their unequivocal ENDORSEMENT. No Defund the Police here. Best Wishes! RT @TheLeadCNN Trump holds event with Florida supporters at Tampa airport, with little distancing or mask-wearing @ryanobles […]

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7/31/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As scientists and pharmaceutical companies work at breakneck speed to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, public health officials and senior U.S. lawmakers are sounding alarms about the Trump administration’s lack of planning for its nationwide distribution… Right now, it is unclear who in Washington is in charge of oversight, much […]

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7/31/2020

JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re facing some of the biggest challenges in our history — and it’s abundantly clear Donald Trump just isn’t up for the job. We need real leadership — and we need it now.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, July 31, 2020 1:05 pm […]

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7/31/2020

COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s been over six months since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States, and President Trump still doesn’t have an effective plan to contain its spread. It’s an unjustifiable failure of leadership that costs lives every day.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, July 31, 2020 9:45 am […]

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7/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re months and months into this pandemic, and still President Trump has failed to step up and mobilize an all-out response to COVID-19 or to drive a safe and effective recovery. It’s unacceptable. We need to extend meaningful and substantial relief for workers now and ensure our states and local governments […]

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7/30/2020

2020 ELECTION/IMPEACHMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have voted Republican in every presidential election since 1980, including voting for Donald Trump in 2016… But I am frankly appalled by the president’s recent tweet seeking to postpone the November election… this latest tweet is fascistic and is itself grounds for the president’s immediate impeachment again by the House […]

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7/30/2020

GOP/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Had President Trump taken immediate and decisive action, tens of thousands of lives and millions of jobs would never have been lost. And now, Trump is failing to effectively manage our recovery — and Republicans in Congress are refusing to give working families the help they need today. We won’t get […]

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7/30/2020

HEALTHCARE/MEDICAID/MEDICARE/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Medicare and Medicaid have extended lives, enhanced liberty, and put the pursuit of happiness within reach of tens of millions of Americans… In the midst of a devastating pandemic, we should be united in our desire to strengthen these lifesaving programs — but instead, President Trump is once again threatening to […]

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7/30/2020

HUMAN TRAFFICKING/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Protecting people from human trafficking should be above politics. President Trump and his administration claim to care about combating human trafficking. But the reality tells a different tale. They have demonized the communities most susceptible to trafficking, and as a result, have hampered the federal government’s ability to fight this […]

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7/30/2020

2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/JOE BIDEN/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At fund-raising events where he has pulled in more than $24 million for Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s campaign in the past two months, former President Barack Obama has privately unleashed on President Trump to party donors, bringing up past accusations of Mr. Trump’s “assaulting women” and warning of his efforts […]

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7/30/2020

ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The last three months were the worst period for economic growth our nation has experienced in the 70 years since we started measuring it — a drop of nearly 33 percent. Let’s be clear: This is no act of God, it’s a failure of presidential leadership.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, July 30, […]

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7/29/2020

ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump has shown that he can’t beat the pandemic or turn the economy around. And he is unsurprisingly stoking the flames of division for political gain. He is the worst possible person to lead our nation through this moment.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, July 29, 2020 3:57 pm […]

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7/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We need an effective, coordinated nationwide [coronavirus] testing and tracing program. We need more PPE for health care workers. We need a comprehensive plan to get this virus under control. We need this president to do his job.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, July 29, 2020 12:17 pm […]

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7/29/2020

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The radical left wants to tear down everything in its way. And in its place, they want power for themselves. They want power. Hard to believe — power. They want to uproot and demolish every American value. They want to wipe away every trace of religion from national life. They want to […]

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7/29/2020

CLIMATE CHANGE/ENVIRONMENT/KEYSTONE/PIPELINES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I withdrew from the one-sided, energy-destroying Paris Climate Accord. It was a disaster. It cost us billions of dollars, and it would have made us a noncompetitive nation. We cancelled the Obama administration’s job-crushing Clean Power Plan. You know all about that. I approved the Keystone XL and the Dakota Access […]

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7/29/2020

CHINA/IRAN/NATO/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Nobody has been tougher on Russia. Nobody has been tougher on China. Nobody has been tougher on Iran than me, and it’s not even close. And everybody knows this. Nobody has been tougher on Russia, China, or anybody else than me, including our allies — NATO, who I got to pay $140 billion […]

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7/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “Donald Trump doubled down on his decision to retweet a video of Houston doctor Stella Immanuel in which Ms Immanuel touts the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating patients of Covid-19 and dismisses masks as unnecessary in stopping its spread. In the past, Ms Immanuel has made several dubious medical claims, including the […]

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7/29/2020

MEDIA/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I was on Air Force One flying to the Great State of Texas, where I just landed. It is AMAZING in watching @FoxNews how different they are from four years ago. Not even watchable. They totally forgot who got them where they are!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 29, 2020 6:58 am […]

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7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VACCINES: “[W]hat percent is American people saying if the [coronavirus] vaccine were there tomorrow, they wouldn’t take it? And it’s not the usual anti-vaccine crowd it’s beyond that because people are losing faith in what the president says. Think about it. The words of a president matter significantly. They can, as I […]

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7/28/2020

2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Look, I’m running because Trump is the president. And I think our democracy is at stake for real. And what seems to be the case is many Americans, those who don’t like me and those who do, view me as the antithesis of Trump. And I believe that I am. […]

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7/28/2020

JOE BIDEN/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[W]hen the president decided he had to walk across from the White House through a group of peaceful demonstrators to an Episcopal church to hold a Bible upside down, which I don’t know how often he reads, and he used the military to do that, did you ever think you’d see […]

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7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DACA/IMMIGRATION/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s unconscionable that the Trump Administration has continued its attacks on DACA recipients, especially while our country is battling COVID-19 and many of these young people are risking their lives to keep us safe and healthy. Nearly a third of all current DACA recipients are essential workers helping our communities respond […]

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7/28/2020

DACA/IMMIGRATION/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After failing at the Supreme Court, the Trump Administration took another cruel step in its misguided crusade to repeal DACA. President Trump will stop at nothing to push his anti-immigrant political agenda, even at the expense of young people who have grown up in this country and are Americans through and […]

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7/28/2020

2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This election is not just about voting against Donald Trump. It’s about rising to this moment of crisis, understanding people’s struggle, and building a future worthy of their courage and ambition to overcome.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, July 28, 2020 3:37 pm […]

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7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Right now, we’re in the midst of one of the greatest threats to small businesses our country has ever seen. What does Donald Trump do? Give big banks the green light to make millions of dollars in fees by favoring their most well-off and well-connected clients while shutting the door on […]

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7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A change of ‘tone’ over a few days does not change the facts of the last four years. Donald Trump fails the basic threshold test of being president — the duty to care about the entire country, not just himself. He has shown that he can’t beat the [coronavirus] pandemic to keep […]

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7/27/2020

DACA/DRUGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The drug prices in our country will be coming down very substantially. I was given that right because of the DACA decision. The DACA decision allowed me to do things that some people thought the President didn’t have the right to do. I was given that right. Drug prices will be coming […]

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7/27/2020

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[I]t’s been a great three and a half years, but it’s been very unfair. It’s been very unfair. A lot of phony witch hunts and it’s — it’s made it less fun. But I’m not sure I could have done anymore because we’ve really done a lot. We’ve done I think more […]

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7/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VACCINES: “The White House should not weigh in on these matters or push the FDA to provide emergency authorizations prematurely, as they did for hydroxychloroquine. The President should not ‘hype’ [coronavirus] treatments or vaccines, overstate their results, or undermine confidence in scientific findings.” -Joe Biden, “My Statement on Vaccines,” medium.com, July 27, […]

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7/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VACCINES: “The American people’s health depends on confidence in the safety of any vaccine… Today, I am calling on President Trump to commit to the three principles of integrity in the development of a [coronavirus] vaccine… First, scientists and public health experts decide on safety and efficacy… Second, clinical data for any […]

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7/27/2020

COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VACCINES: “It’s great news that scientists are making progress in the search for a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine. We all hope the next phases of clinical trials will yield positive results to support an approval based on the scientific evidence, but the development of a new vaccine requires a dedication to […]

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7/26/2020

HEALTHCARE/JOE BIDEN/OBAMACARE (ACA)/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I was immensely proud to cosponsor the ADA, which was forged through fearless advocacy and tough bipartisan negotiations — a Democratic bill signed by George H.W. Bush, a Republican President… Today, President Trump threatens that progress, consistently disparaging Americans with disabilities with his rhetoric and actions. His administration has attempted […]

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7/25/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump ordered his administration to slow down coronavirus testing, he tried to block CDC funding, and he has ignored the experts from day one. His actions defy both logic and humanity. What kind of president actively undercuts efforts that will save lives?” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, July 25, 2020 1:00 pm […]

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7/25/2020

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One of the greats in the history of television, Regis Philbin has passed on to even greater airwaves, at 88. He was a fantastic person, and my friend. He kept telling me to run for President. Holds the record for ‘most live television’, and he did it well. Regis, we love you…. […]

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7/24/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/PRESS SECRETARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: “Kayleigh, the President’s tone on the virus this week seems to have changed. He’s advocated a few different times for Americans to wear masks.”] “There has been no change [in tone]. The President said, on March 31st, before there was even a recommended but not required guidance given by the […]

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7/23/2020

2020 ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Sean Hannity: “If you are given the four more years, what will this country look like, in your view, four years from now?”] “So it’s all going to be about America first. We always put other countries before us, which is so foolish and so horrible. And it has been so […]

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7/23/2020

GOP/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have just great enthusiasm in the party. I don’t think we have ever had it, even more so than 2016. And you see what’s going on with the polls… You have all of these fake, these suppression polls, and just like 2016, when they put out these phony polls, the media. […]

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7/23/2020

CIVIL UNREST/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Recently watched failed RINO Tom Ridge, former head of Homeland Security, trying to justify his sudden love of the Radical Left Mayor of Portland, who last night was booed & shouted out of existence by the agitators & anarchists. Love watching pathetic Never Trumpers squirm!” ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 23, 2020 […]

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7/23/2020

LIZ CHENEY/MILITARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WAR: “Liz Cheney is only upset because I have been actively getting our great and beautiful Country out of the ridiculous and costly Endless Wars. I am also making our so-called allies pay tens of billions of dollars in delinquent military costs. They must, at least, treat us fairly!!!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, […]

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7/22/2020

/JOE BIDEN/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “What President Trump has done in spreading his racism — the way he deals with people based on the color of their skin, their national origin, where they’re from, is absolutely sickening. No sitting president has ever done this. Never, never, never. No Republican president has done this. No Democratic president. […]

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7/22/2020

JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I asked the doctor, I said, ‘Is there some kind of a cognitive test that I could take?’… It was 30 or 35 questions. The first questions are very easy. The last questions are much more difficult. Like a memory question. It’s, like, you’ll go: ‘Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.’ So […]

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7/22/2020

CRIME/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: “Mr. President, I just wanted to ask you a question about the surge of federal agents to various cities… You are only targeting cities, though, run by Democrats. Is this just a political stunt?”] “Yeah, the cities, unfortunately, that are in trouble are all run by Democrats. You have radical-left Democrats […]

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7/22/2020

POLICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We don’t need federal troops. We don’t need unnamed, secret, federal agents roaming around the streets of Chicago, taking off our residents without cause, and violating their basic constitutional rights… The President has been on a campaign now for some time against Democratic mayors across the country, whether it’s me, whether it’s […]

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7/21/2020

DHS/JOE BIDEN/PROTESTS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We have a president who is determined to sow chaos and division… Now Homeland Security agents — without a clearly defined mandate or authority — are ranging far from federal property, stripped of badges and insignia and identifying markings, to detain people. They are brutally attacking peaceful protestors, including a U.S. […]

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7/21/2020

ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump simply doesn’t understand: We can’t deal with our economic crisis without solving the public health crisis. And for all his bluster about his expertise on the economy, he is unable to explain how he will actually help the working families hit the hardest.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, July 21, 2020 […]

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7/21/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s been reported by the president’s staff, that the president is quote, ‘Not really working this anymore.’ He doesn’t want to be distracted by it. Doesn’t want to be distracted by it. His own staff admits that Donald Trump fails the most important test of being an American president, the duty […]

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7/20/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Morning after morning, Americans are waking to the heart-wrenching news of escalating infection and death totals — and an economic crisis exacerbated by Donald Trump’s catastrophic failure to get the virus under control. How is President Trump responding? He is making a push to block $25 billion for testing and contact […]

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7/20/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: “So you’re bringing back the coronavirus briefings?”] “Well, we had very successful briefings. I was doing them, and we had a lot of people watching — record numbers watching. In the history of cable television — television, there’s never been anything like it… But we’ve have had this big flare-up in […]

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7/19/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I’ll be right eventually. I will be right eventually. You know I said, ‘It’s [coronavirus] going to disappear.’ I’ll say it again… It’s going to disappear and I’ll be right… Because I’ve been right probably more than anybody else.” -Donald Trump as quoted by Fox News, “Transcript: ‘Fox News Sunday’ interview with […]

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7/19/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Chris Wallace: “California locking down again. Florida, deadliest day of the entire pandemic. Hospitals at capacity at a number of places around the country… We don’t have a national plan. Do you take responsibility for that?”] “Look, I take responsibility always for everything because it’s ultimately my job, too. I have to […]

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7/19/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s long past due for President Trump to listen to somebody other than himself in how to fight this virus, because after six straight months of deadly mismanagement it is spiraling even more out of control. He can start by immediately adopting the proposals I have laid out for months now […]

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7/19/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump isn’t just attacking our leading health experts — he’s waving the white flag and actively undercutting our ability to save lives and stop COVID-19 by shamefully trying to block critical additional new funding for the CDC, as well as for testing and tracing.” -Joe Biden, “My Statement on Donald […]

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7/19/2020

ANTHONY FAUCI/CDC/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s astonishing that even after 140,000 Americans have died in the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the developed world, President Trump continues his offensive against the CDC and scientists like Dr. Fauci, instead of heeding their clear advice about the steps we must take to stop this virus — from ramping […]

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7/19/2020

CDC/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Yet again this morning, President Trump attacked the CDC and the public health experts who should be guiding our response to COVID-19, saying that they ‘don’t know’ what they’re talking about. The past six months have proven again and again that it’s Donald Trump who doesn’t know what he’s talking about […]

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7/19/2020

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Chris Wallace: “will you consider a national mandate that people need to wear masks?”] “No, I want people to have a certain freedom, and I don’t believe in that. No, and I don’t agree with the statement that if everybody wear a mask everything disappears. Hey, Dr. Fauci said don’t wear a […]

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7/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Former Trump administration economist Todas Philipson said on Friday [July 17, 2020] that his team alerted the White House about the dangers of a looming pandemic outbreak about three months before Covid-19 is believed to have made its way into the United States… On Friday, he told CNN’s Poppy Harlow that he […]

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7/16/2020

MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Another one of many Fake T.V. Ads, this one about the Tennessee Valley Authority, which for years has paid its top executive a ridiculous FORTUNE. Not run by the U.S., but I have long been fighting that crazy ‘salary’ & its polices. Strange ad paid for (?) by ‘U.S. Tech Workers’.“ ––Donald […]

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7/15/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump needs to do everything in his power to surge nationwide [coronavirus] testing — including developing and evaluating more accurate, affordable, accessible, faster tests so we can reopen safely. Infection rates are rising at an alarming pace. Mr. President, act now.” -Joe Biden, Twitter.com, July 15, 2020 2:50 pm […]

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