Trump on why he retweeted a #FireFauci tweet: "I retweeted somebody -- I dunno."pic.twitter.com/oGToAFsAbV
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TRUMP on possibility states won't want to relax social distancing as quick he would like: "The president of the United States calls the shots ... it's a decision for the president ... they can't do anything without the approval of the president."pic.twitter.com/a9f73Z8G3N
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TRUMP: "When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total. And that's the way it's gotta be. It's total."pic.twitter.com/zIuiBn1Mhw
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@kaitlancollins: You said when someone is the president, their authority is total. That is not true. TRUMP: "Okay -- you know what we're going to do? We're going to write up papers on this. It's not gonna be necessary. Because the governors need us one way or the other."pic.twitter.com/NUe1b2BvcTShow this thread -
"Enough" -- Trump shushes
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Trump takes a leading question from an OAN sycophant who basically asks him if he plans to crack down on Michigan and its Democratic governorpic.twitter.com/wyZtsw9OSc
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"You'd probably be the last person I'd tell" -- Trump again spars with
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"I support the president's leadership under the national emergency declaration he signed" -- Mike Pence suggests he has no objection to Trump (falsely) characterizing his power as "total"pic.twitter.com/N7QoSw9nOW
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TRUMP on reports of Chinese aggression in the South China Sea: "We have a relationship with China that, uh, we're not happy with certain things that happened over the last period of time ... we'll be just fine."pic.twitter.com/uxQYTY3Ip4
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TRUMP: "The federal government has absolute power. It has the power. As to whether or not I'll use that power -- we'll see ... I have an absolute right."pic.twitter.com/76wPDK1GPe
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Asked about Biden, Trump still tries some H1N1 whataboutism -- even though more people have died in a much more compressed period of time from coronaviruspic.twitter.com/jbJew9eoqO
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TRUMP: "We're having a religious leaders committee...you've been seeing what's going on at the churches...we're gonna to have a few committees, & then ultimately we're gonna make decisions & we're gonna make them fairly quickly & I think they're going to be the correct decisions"pic.twitter.com/5myQUN2BBx
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Trump closes with some thoughts on his friend Stanley Chera, who died from coronavirus: "He thought we'd do such a good job and he was so happy, and he was very proud of what we have done in this administration. But he was tested positive, & unfortunately he didn't make it."pic.twitter.com/kIzvnGJIRe
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"The only thing I can tell you is that I will give him the advice based on evidence -- you can tell Dr. Fauci is exasperated with Trumppic.twitter.com/paYUruuM9L
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"I don't want to have anything taken out of context, b/c I already one of those in the last couple days, so I don't want to go through it again. Could things have been done better? Of course" -- Fauci on the Covid response & Trump getting mad at him for pointing out the obviouspic.twitter.com/eXl0PXfE9f
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The April 13 White House coronavirus task force briefing finally ended -- nearly 3 hours and 15 minutes after its scheduled start time.
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Trump's latest coronavirus press briefing began with an epic meltdown and ended with the ramblings of an aspiring dictatorhttps://www.vox.com/2020/4/13/21219966/trump-coronavirus-press-briefing-meltdown-total-control-states-rights …
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