TRUMP: "I will always protect your Social Security, your Medicare, and your Medicaid. We are protecting your Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid." (REALITY: Trump's most recent budget proposal includes steep reductions to those programs.)pic.twitter.com/CoXMKr3cu5
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Rear Adm. John Polowczyk on scarcity of personal protective gear for health care workers: "If you are in a hospital and not seeing PPE, I would look up to the state level first."pic.twitter.com/bTd4Pi9ZsB
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Here's Peter Navarro saying that completing a task in "Trump time" means doing it "as fast as possible"pic.twitter.com/vlLcMOvBvB
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Trump says that he considered prohibiting an American company from sending "important outfits" to Italy, but decided against itpic.twitter.com/biNQ7GI7GT
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"The states should have building their stockpiles ... we're a backup. We're not an ordering clerk." -- Trumppic.twitter.com/3QxDMAmQzw
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REPORTER: Can you assure Americans tonight that you will be open for an Obamacare marketplace for coverage in this time? TRUMP: "We are doing better than that. We are going to get a cash payment to the people."pic.twitter.com/c1NTtoSWZw
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"Long before this pandemic arrived, they should have been on the open market just buying" -- Trump tries to shift blame for medical gear shortages to the statespic.twitter.com/vtw3xDC3o6
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DR. BIRX: "I know you have seen the slope in the United States versus the slope in Italy. And we have to change that slope. We have to change the logarithmic curve we are on ... what it means in the United States is that not everyone is doing [social distancing]."pic.twitter.com/0rt3ELon2b
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REPORTER: The Navy is reportedly set to fire a captain who raised red flags about a Covid outbreak on his ship. It appears as if he's being punished for trying to save lives-- TRUMP: "No, I don't think so at all"pic.twitter.com/4h9A0g4SaZ
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Trump on accepting planeload of medical gear from Russia: "They have excess medical equipment things. And I'll take it ... it was a large plane of very high-quality medical supplies." (Other counties have reportedly received low-quality medical supplies from Russia.)pic.twitter.com/7GfGbCt8Rv
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Trump makes sure to take a question from OAN staffer Chanel Rion even though she was banished from the White House Correspondents' Association for attending briefings she wasn't supposed to be atpic.twitter.com/Gn35DBj0Jh
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JARED KUSHNER: "The notion of the federal stockpile was it's supposed to be our stockpile. It's not supposed to be states stockpiles that they then use."pic.twitter.com/9Q7j8QBCMv
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"Some governors you speak to or senators, and they don't know what's in their state" -- Jared Kushner says he knows better than state governors and US senators about how many ventilators are in their statespic.twitter.com/26pQltZtI7
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Trump on some states doing better than others with coronavirus cases: "Some states they stay in better, they're not touching, they're not whatever it is, they're not going out, they're not in groups. And some states are not probably as good, or for whatever reason."pic.twitter.com/GJySE8cyTh
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Trump says he thinks the US is doing a "good job" overall because most states don't have exponential coronavirus curves like New York and New Jerseypic.twitter.com/IkQ0MaexgL
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"To my face they're very nice ... I watch very closely" -- Trump claims that some Democratic governors praise him and thank him for his efforts in private only to blast him on TVpic.twitter.com/527Uh9wNRU
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Trump says he's looking into options to prevent states and localities from releasing prisoners from jails and prisons amid the coronavirus pandemicpic.twitter.com/piwULagkde
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Trump's message to the 6 million people who filed unemployments claims in the last week is that "it's an artificial closing. It's not like we have a massive recession or worse. It's artificial because we turned it off ... we will probably do more."pic.twitter.com/FGVi6xIvbq
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Trump closes with this: "When this is over, it's gonna be a day we're gonna celebrate. Because everyone's gonna go to work and I think we're gonna have boom times ... we've learned so much that I think we really have a chance to be bigger and better and stronger."pic.twitter.com/4LX399UynQ
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Jared Kushner’s ventilator remarks contradicted a government website. Hours later, the site was changed.https://www.vox.com/2020/4/3/21207140/jared-kushner-strategic-national-stockpile-ventilators …
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