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I see a tweet with a picture and the text 'Chris Hayes: If you take the steps that Donald Trump is taking, not just refusing to combat the virus, but actively taking steps that will make people sick, then you are objectively pro-virus.'

After Mass, Biden visited the cemetery where his son is buried. The Director of Strategic Response for the Trump campaign: Claasy! Oh, and, don't use words you don't know the meaning of.

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He has been and is killing tens of thousands of us, soon hundreds of thousands, to increase his chances of reelection. New book reveals Trump played down the virus despite understanding its severity

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You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed, Trump said in a Feb. 7 call with Woodward. And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu.

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This is deadly stuff, the president repeated for emphasis.

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Trump told Woodward on March 19 that he deliberately minimized the danger. I wanted to always play it down, the president said.

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The Washington Post, where Woodward serves as associate editor, reported excerpts of the book, Rage on Wednesday, as did CNN. The book also covers race relations, diplomacy with North Korea and a range of other issues that have arisen during the past two years.

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The book is based in part on 18 interviews that Woodward conducted with Trump between December and July.

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Trump never did seem willing to fully mobilize the federal government and continually seemed to push problems off on the states, Woodward writes. There was no real management theory of the case or how to organize a massive enterprise to deal with one of the most complex emergencies the United States had ever faced.

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Yeah, that's what they said. We'll see if they can withstand McConnell's heavy artillery.