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MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: NPR Source Says Trump Blocked Coronavirus Testing in January to Aid His Reelection Chances By Keeping US Infection Figures Low NOTE: Please RETWEET this—America needs to know what this monster did. Thousands of future deaths will rightly be laid at his feet.https://twitter.com/nprfreshair/status/1238186469690429440 …

PS/ We don't know—but would assume—Azar raised testing with Trump when he told him coronavirus required a major response in January; such conversations have since been classified by Trump. We also don't know if Dan Diamond's "recent weeks" extends back into January (6 weeks ago).

PS2/ The best-case scenario for Trump—albeit unthinkable—is that not a *single* adviser of his raised the utility of aggressive testing with him until mid-February, meaning that he only had a chance to be opposed to it (thereby actively hampering it) in the middle of last month.

PS3/ Of course, it's Trump's own extraordinary classification of his conversations with Azar—and coronavirus-response debates in the administration generally—that keeps us from knowing if anyone advised Trump to test aggressively in January. But it seems *impossible* no one did.