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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE — APRIL 13, 2020

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Driving the Day: 

By The Numbers
Monday, April 13, 7:30 AM
Number of US cases reported: 557,590
Number of US deaths: 22,109
Total Number of People Tested in US: 2,816,674 (may not include all labs) 

Axios: U.S. passes Italy on recorded coronavirus deaths
Washington Post: Medical databases show 1 in 10 hospitalized middle-aged coronavirus patients in U.S. do not survive
Washington Post: The Pandemic’s First Wave

What to Watch For Today

President Trump has no public events scheduled today.  Vice President Pence will hold a video conference with the nation’s governors. The coronavirus task force briefs the press at 5:00 PM.  

Must Read Stories

He Could Have Seen What’s Coming

  • CNN: Fauci Admits Earlier Covid-19 Mitigation Efforts Would Have Saved More American Lives: “Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that calls to implement life-saving social distancing measures faced “a lot of pushback” early in the US coronavirus outbreak and that the country is now looking for ways to more effectively respond to the virus should it rebound in the fall…Asked why the President didn’t recommend social distancing guidelines until mid-March — about three weeks after the nation’s top health experts recommended they be put in place — Fauci said, “You know, Jake, as I have said many times, we look at it from a pure health standpoint. We make a recommendation. Often, the recommendation is taken. Sometimes it’s not. But we — it is what it is. We are where we are right now.”
  • New York Times: He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus: “Throughout January, as Mr. Trump repeatedly played down the seriousness of the virus and focused on other issues, an array of figures inside his government — from top White House advisers to experts deep in the cabinet departments and intelligence agencies — identified the threat, sounded alarms and made clear the need for aggressive action. The president, though, was slow to absorb the scale of the risk and to act accordingly, focusing instead on controlling the message, protecting gains in the economy and batting away warnings from senior officials. It was a problem, he said, that had come out of nowhere and could not have been foreseen.”
  • Associated Press: Trump Leaves Trail Of Unmet Promises In Coronavirus Response:  “For several months, President Donald Trump and his officials have cast a fog of promises meant to reassure a country in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic. Trump and his team haven’t delivered on critical ones. They talk numbers. Bewildering numbers about masks on the way. About tests being taken. About ships sailing to the rescue, breathing machines being built and shipped, field hospitals popping up, aircraft laden with supplies from abroad, dollars flowing to crippled businesses. Piercing that fog is the bottom-line reality that Americans are going without the medical supplies and much of the financial help they most need from the government at the very time they need it most — and were told they would have it.”

The Trump Administration Has No Plan To Get Us Out Of This

  • Washington Post: Trump Administration Has Many Task Forces — But Still No Plan For Beating Covid-19:  “The Trump administration still has no clear plan for ending the coronavirus crisis, but it does have many task forces. There is the official task force led by Vice President Pence that meets daily and is supposed to oversee the government’s sprawling response to the pandemic that has cratered the economy and, as of Saturday, killed more than 20,000 in the United States alone. There is the ‘Opening Our Country Council,’ an economic task force announced Friday that is focused on reopening portions of the economy as quickly as possible. There is the group that reports directly to President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, a cadre dismissively dubbed ‘the shadow task force’ that helps Kushner with his roving list of virus troubleshooting. And there is also the ‘doctors group,’ a previously unreported offshoot of the original task force that huddles daily to discuss medical and public health issues, created in part to push back against demands that the health experts view as too reckless. In theory, the task forces are all working toward the same goal: defeating the novel coronavirus and getting the nation back to work — and life — as quickly as possible. But the reality is far more complicated: a bureaucratic nesting doll of groups with frequently competing aims and agendas.”
  • Politico: White House Still Has No Road Map For Restarting The Economy: “With the White House moving to reopen the economy as early as May 1, top officials have yet to coalesce around a single plan to allow Americans and businesses to safely resume work as the coronavirus pandemic rages on. Instead, senior administration officials are engaged in an earnest yet scattershot effort to support President Donald Trump’s long-expressed desire to revive the downward-spiraling economy and stabilize the volatile financial markets in the middle of an election year.”
  • Washington Post:  A Plan To Defeat Coronavirus Finally Emerges, But It’s Not From The White House:  “A national plan to fight the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and return Americans to jobs and classrooms is emerging — but not from the White House. Instead, a collection of governors, former government officials, disease specialists and nonprofits are pursuing a strategy that relies on the three pillars of disease control: Ramp up testing to identify people who are infected. Find everyone they interact with by deploying contact tracing on a scale America has never attempted before. And focus restrictions more narrowly on the infected and their contacts so the rest of society doesn’t have to stay in permanent lockdown. But there is no evidence yet the White House will pursue such a strategy.”

Trump Turns Ventilators And Masks Into A Political Game 

  • Politico: States Still Baffled Over How To Get Coronavirus Supplies From Trump:  “The federal government’s haphazard approach to distributing its limited supplies has left states trying everything — filling out lengthy FEMA applications, calling Trump, contacting Pence, sending messages to Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, and trade adviser Peter Navarro, who are both leading different efforts to find supplies, according to local and states officials in more than half dozen states. They’re even asking mutual friends to call Trump or sending him signals on TV and Twitter. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn’t.”
  • NBC: Behind Closed Doors, Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force Boosts Industry And Sows Confusion:  “For weeks, Trump has resisted pressure to use the full power of his office to temporarily turn the private sector into an arm of the federal government in a national emergency. He and his lieutenants instead have used the crisis to make federal assets and personnel a support group for industry, rather than the other way around, according to NBC News’ interviews with dozens of public- and private-sector sources involved in various aspects of the coronavirus response. In doing so, the vice president’s coronavirus task force — mostly through a supply-chain unit led by Rear Adm. John Polowczyk, vice director of logistics for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and heavily influenced by White House adviser Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law — has favored some of the nation’s largest corporations and ignored smaller producers of goods and services with long track records of meeting emergency needs, according to officials at multiple federal agencies and people familiar with contracting. They have operated almost entirely in the dark, releasing few details of their arrangements with the big companies; created a new and convoluted emergency response system; and sown confusion and distrust in the states and among the people who need medical supplies.”
  • Washington Post: Trump Casts Himself As Pandemic Patron, Personalizing The Government’s Spread Of Cash And Supplies:  “As Americans confront a pandemic and struggle to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, Trump has placed himself at the center as their patron. The president has sought to portray himself as singularly in charge — except for when things go wrong. In those instances, he has labored to blame others and avoid accountability.  Day after day, in his self-constructed role of wartime president, the task Trump seems to relish most is spreading cash and supplies across a beleaguered and anxious nation.”
  • Associated Press:  Calling Trump: When Connections Help Steer Virus Supplies:  “Despite building a data-driven triage system in which FEMA allots supplies based on local needs, those who are politically connected and have the president’s ear have, at times, been able to bypass that process and move to the front of the line.”

Worth Watching

At the hour of Americans’ greatest need, the Trump administration is already scaling back efforts to help:

  • Politico: Small business loan effort might be less generous than advertised
  • New York Times: Small Businesses Wait for Cash as Disaster Loan Program Unravels
  • Washington Post: Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia faces blowback as he curtails scope of worker relief in unemployment crisis

Headlines

Trump’s Failures
Associated Press: Groups used to serving desperately poor nations now help US
Associated Press: Next potential shortage: Drugs needed to run ventilators
Associated Press (Analysis): Virus shows benefit of learning from other nations
Axios: 10 times Trump and his administration were warned about coronavirus
Axios: Surgeon general: Most of the U.S. won’t be able to reopen May 1
Bloomberg: U.S. States Prepare Test-and-Trace Programs to Reopen Their Economies
Bloomberg: What Happened to the CDC? Storied Disease Agency Takes a Back Seat
CNN: Fauci admits earlier Covid-19 mitigation efforts would have saved more American lives
Der Spiegel: How Trump Is Fueling a Corona Disaster
Kaiser Health News: Furor Erupts: Billions Going To Hospitals Based On Medicare Billings, Not COVID-19
Los Angeles Times: How a stockpile of 39 million masks was exposed as fake
NBC: U.S. spy agencies collected raw intelligence hinting at public health crisis in Wuhan, China, in November
NBC: More than 2,200 coronavirus deaths in nursing homes, but federal government isn’t tracking them
New York Times: He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus
New York Times: Government projections indicate a summer spike in US coronavirus infections if stay-at-home orders are lifted
New York Times: The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus
New York Times: Small Businesses Wait for Cash as Disaster Loan Program Unravels
New York Times: It’s ‘People, People, People’ As Lines Stretch Across America
New York Times: ‘There Will Be Losses’: How a Captain’s Plea Exposed a Rift in the Military
Politico: White House still has no road map for restarting the economy
Politico: Mayors look to each other, not Trump, on coronavirus response
Politico: America’s new opioid crisis
Politico: Trump officials, health experts worry coronavirus will set back opioid fight
Politico: Trump aides debate far-reaching demands on WHO
Politico: Inside America’s Two-Decade Failure to Prepare for Coronavirus
Politico: Small business loan effort might be less generous than advertised
Politico: U.S. still falling short on accurate testing, FDA chief says
Stat: ‘We’re being put at risk unnecessarily’: Doctors fume at government response to coronavirus pandemic
Vox: Trump is woefully confused about why more coronavirus testing is vital
Vox: Ford and GM are making tens of thousands of ventilators. It may already be too late.
Wall Street Journal: Slow Start for Rapid Coronavirus Tests Frustrates States
Wall Street Journal: U.S. Tariffs Hamper Imports of Sanitizer, Disinfectants, Some Companies Say
Washington Post: Spikes in demand from coronavirus patients are creating shortages of asthma drugs and sedatives for ventilator patients
Washington Post: A plan to defeat coronavirus finally emerges, but it’s not from the White House
Washington Post: The Trump administration has many task forces — but still no plan for beating the pandemic
Washington Post: Reopening U.S. economy by May 1 may be unrealistic, say experts, including some within Trump administration
Washington Post: As feds play ‘backup,’ states take unorthodox steps to compete in cutthroat global market for coronavirus supplies

Trump’s Lies and Misinformation
Associated Press: Trump leaves trail of unmet promises in coronavirus response
The Atlantic (Ideas): Some Patients Really Need the Drug That Trump Keeps Pushing
CNN: Fact Check: Trump’s new anti-Biden ad is filled with deceptive images and audio clips
Daily Beast: Trump Spends Easter Asking Confidants: ‘What Do You Think of Fauci?’
NPR: COVID-19 Patients Given Unproven Drug In Texas Nursing Home In ‘Disconcerting’ Move
New York Times: They Watch Trump’s Virus Briefings Daily. Here’s What They Have to Say.
New York Times: Trump Lashes Out at Fauci Amid Criticism of Slow Virus Response
New York Times: Small Chloroquine Study Halted Over Risk of Fatal Heart Complications
Stat:  A key ingredient that compound pharmacies need for hydroxychloroquine skyrockets in price
Vanity Fair: An Ex-New York Times Reporter Has Become the Right’s Go-To Coronavirus Skeptic
Washington Post: For Fox News hosts, the hydroxychloroquine controversy is fuel for the culture war

Trump and the GOP Not Looking Out For You
Associated Press: Trump winery eligible for bailout in virus relief law
Associated Press: Calling Trump: When connections help steer virus supplies
Associated Press (Analysis): Analysis: Will voters want a president who feels their pain?
CNN: Navarro publicly said Americans had ‘nothing to worry about’ while privately warning coronavirus could cost lives and dollars
CNN: Ivanka Trump seeks to headline administration’s small business recovery effort
The Hill: Florida Gov. DeSantis mulls reopening schools: Coronavirus ‘doesn’t seem to threaten’ kids
NBC: Behind closed doors, Trump’s coronavirus task force boosts industry and sows confusion
NPR: White House Seeks To Lower Farmworker Pay To Help Agriculture Industry
New York Times: Oil Nations, Prodded by Trump, Reach Deal to Slash Production
Politico: Trump personalizes the coronavirus — through a political lens
Politico: States still baffled over how to get coronavirus supplies from Trump
ProPublica: The White House Pushed FEMA To Give its Biggest Coronavirus Contract to a Company That Never Had to Bid
ProPublica: Medical Staffing Companies Owned by Rich Investors Cut Doctor Pay and Now Want Bailout Money
NBC: Trump pushes false claims about mail-in vote fraud. Here are the facts.
New York Times: Trump Backs Off Tougher Food Stamp Work Rules for Now
New York Times (Opinion): Trump Wants 50 Wisconsins on Election Day
Salt Lake Tribune: Utah Rep. John Curtis bought stocks boosted by coronavirus, disclosures indicate
Vox: How Trump turned ventilators into a form of patronage
Wall Street Journal: Trump Campaign Shifts Economic Message on the Fly
Washington Post: GOP pushes voting by mail — with restrictions — as Trump attacks it as ‘corrupt’
Washington Post: ‘Dreamers’ risk lives on pandemic’s front lines while they await a decision on their own future
Washington Post: White House rejects bailout for U.S. Postal Service battered by coronavirus
Washington Post: Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia faces blowback as he curtails scope of worker relief in unemployment crisis
Washington Post: Trump casts himself as pandemic patron, personalizing the government’s spread of cash and supplies

Affordability And Access
CNN: A nurse revealed the tragic last words of his coronavirus patient: ‘Who’s going to pay for it?’
Politico: Trump administration requires insurers to provide free antibody tests

Business
Axios: Apple, Google team up on coronavirus contact tracing

Campaigns and Elections
CBS: A traditional summertime convention amid coronavirus? Both parties wrestle cost and image issues
CBS: Down-ballot candidates walk a fine line raising cash in middle of a pandemic
Talking Points Memo: Wisconsin Health Officials Announce Plan To Track Voters After Tuesday’s Election

Congress
Politico: ‘Let’s hope to heck that it works’: Pandemic pressure mounts on Congress
Washington Post: GOP leaders refuse Democrats’ coronavirus demands, won’t negotiate over small-business lending

Democratic Response
The Atlantic: Gary Locke Is Mad About That Trump Ad
Axios: Michelle Obama to push absentee voting amid coronavirus
CNN: How coronavirus has reshaped Democratic plans for 2020
Daily Beast: Democrats Fear Trump’s New 2020 Strategy Is Working
The Hill: Pro-Democratic group blasts Trump discussion of China travel restrictions in new ad
NPR: Biden’s Health Play In A COVID-19 Economy: Lower Medicare’s Eligibility Age To 60
New York Times: How the Virus Crisis Could Help a Red-State Democrat Stay in Office
New York Times (Opinion): What It’s Like to Run a Rural State During a Pandemic
New York Times (Opinion): Joe Biden: My Plan to Safely Reopen America
Politico: Democrats scramble to close YouTube deficit amid quarantine campaign
Stat: Democrats scramble to turn the 2020 election into a referendum on Trump’s coronavirus response

Economic Impact
Axios: Survival of the biggest: Coronavirus transforms retail
Axios: The next economic crisis will hit states and cities
The Hill: Pollution drops 30 percent in Northeastern US amid coronavirus restrictions
Newsweek: More Than Half Of Voters Under 45 Say They’ve Lost Their Job, Had Hours Reduced, Or Gotten Furloughed
New York Times: On America’s Busiest Highways, The Virus Leaves An Open Road
New York Times: Everything Is Awful. So Why Is the Stock Market Booming?
New York Times: How the Virus Transformed the
Wall Street Journal: Farmers Dump Milk, Break Eggs as Coronavirus Restaurant Closings Destroy Demand

Hospitals and Health Care Workers
ABC: Health care workers fear losing their jobs during coronavirus pandemic
Associated Press: Nurses weigh their principles vs safety in virus fight
Boston Globe: Medical workers share concerns about masks delivered by Patriots plane
Business Insider: Doctors far from the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic are getting stimulus checks, and crucial hospitals say they’re being left behind
Wall Street Journal: ‘I’m Sorry I Can’t Kiss You’—Coronavirus Victims Are Dying Alone
Washington Post: Anguished nurses say Pennsylvania hospital risked infecting cancer patients, babies and staff with covid-19

Immigration And Travel
Washington Post: An immigrant community faces a ‘catastrophic’ pandemic without help

Inequality
Axios: America’s gaping coronavirus inequality
Buzzfeed: Why The Coronavirus Is Killing Black Americans At Outsize Rates Across The US
HuffPost: The Economic Devastation Of COVID-19 Is Hitting Women Particularly Hard
New York Times: The Coronavirus Class Divide: Space and Privacy
Washington Post (Analysis): 4 reasons coronavirus is hitting black communities so hard
Washington Post: ‘Wearing a mask won’t protect us from our history.’

International
The Atlantic (Ideas): Think 168,000 Ventilators Is Too Few? Try Three.
CNN: Beijing tightens grip over coronavirus research, amid US-China row on virus origin
The Guardian: Bolsonaro dragging Brazil towards coronavirus calamity, experts fear
New York Times: A New Front for Nationalism: The Global Battle Against a Virus
New York Times: Burning Cell Towers, Out of Baseless Fear They Spread the Virus
New York Times: In Scramble for Coronavirus Supplies, Rich Countries Push Poor Aside
Politico: Boris Johnson embraces NHS ‘lifesaver’ as UK heads into deep with COVID-19
USA Today: Iceland has tested more of its population for coronavirus than anywhere else. Here’s what it learned
Washington Post: As leaders seize powers to fight coronavirus, fear grows for democracy

In the States
The Atlantic: The City That Has Flattened the Coronavirus Curve
Buzzfeed: The People In Idaho’s Coronavirus Epicenter Have A Message For The Rest Of Us
Gothamist: Neglect & Death In NY’s Nursing Homes: “They’re Laying There Rotting”
Houston Chronicle: How many missed? Texas is second-worst in the nation for COVID-19 testing
Kaiser Health News: A Colorado Ski Community Planned To Test Everyone For COVID-19. Here’s What Happened.
New York Times: The East Coast, Always in the Spotlight, Owes a Debt to the West
New York Times: Deaths in New York City Are More Than Double the Usual Total
New York Times: Nearly 2,000 Dead as Coronavirus Ravages Nursing Homes in N.Y. Region
New York Times: As Morgues Fill, N.Y.C. to Bury Some Virus Victims in Potter’s Field
New York Times: The Costly Toll Of Not Shutting Down Spring Break Earlier
Politico: Is it safe to come out? SF Bay Area may provide clues for the nation
Tampa Bay Times: Florida’s count of coronavirus deaths is missing some cases

Media
New York Times: News Media Outlets Have Been Ravaged by the Pandemic
Washington Post: Hundreds of America’s TV meteorologists are working from home. Here’s how they do it.

Misinformation
Politico: Coronavirus-killing silver, fake tests, CDC impersonators: Feds rush to stamp out scams
Vox: Study: Nearly a third of Americans believe a conspiracy theory about the origins of the coronavirus

National Security
Yahoo News: Russia collecting intelligence on U.S. supply line failures amid coronavirus crisis, DHS warns

Public Safety
Associated Press: Crime drops around the world as COVID-19 keeps people inside
CNN: How social distancing fines are working, or not working, across America

Science
New York Times: Will an Antibody Test Allow Us to Go Back to School or Work?
Washington Post: The storm inside

Social Impact
New York Times: Inside the Strip Clubs of Instagram
New York Times: Whoosh! That Car That Just Soared by Might Be Heading for the Coast

Workers
CNBC: ‘This will lead to airline bankruptcies’ — flight attendant union furious with Treasury bailout offers
HuffPost: Delta Tells Sick Flight Attendants: ‘Do Not Post’ On Social Media Or Notify Fellow Crew
New York Times: Could the Pandemic Wind Up Fixing What’s Broken About Work in America?
Washington Post: Amazon developing coronavirus testing lab for workers
Washington Post: ‘It feels like a war zone’: As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear showing up at work

Trump Tweets 

The @nytimes story is a Fake, just like the “paper” itself. I was criticized for moving too fast when I issued the China Ban, long before most others wanted to do so. @SecAzar told me nothing until later, and Peter Navarro memo was same as Ban (see his statements). Fake News! [@realDonaldTrump, 4/12/20] 

I am working hard to expose the corruption and dishonesty in the Lamestream Media. That part is easy, the hard part is WHY?  [@realDonaldTrump, 4/12/20] 

Governors, get your states testing programs & apparatus perfected. Be ready, big things are happening. No excuses! The Federal Government is there to help. We are testing more than any country in the World. Also, gear up with Face Masks!  [@realDonaldTrump, 4/12/20] 

The big Oil Deal with OPEC Plus is done. This will save hundreds of thousands of energy jobs in the United States. I would like to thank and congratulate President Putin of Russia and King Salman of Saudi Arabia. I just spoke to them from the Oval Office. Great deal for all! [@realDonaldTrump, 4/12/20] 

If the Fake News Opposition Party is pushing, with all their might, the fact that President Trump “ignored early warnings about the threat,” then why did Media & Dems viciously criticize me when I instituted a Travel Ban on China? They said “early & not necessary.” Corrupt Media! [@realDonaldTrump, 4/12/20] 

For the first time in history there is a fully signed Presidential Disaster Declaration for all 50 States. We are winning, and will win, the war on the Invisible Enemy! [@realDonaldTrump, 4/12/20]

[@realDonaldTrump, 4/12/20]

The Opposition Party (Lamestream Media) and their partner, the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats, have put their political game plan in full swing. “Whether he is right or wrong, it doesn’t matter. Criticize ’Trump’ for everything, and don’t let the public see Biden. Hide him.” [@realDonaldTrump, 4/12/20]

Just watched Mike Wallace wannabe, Chris Wallace, on @FoxNews. I am now convinced that he is even worse than Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd of Meet the Press(please!), or the people over at Deface the Nation. What the hell is happening to @FoxNews. It’s a whole new ballgame over there! [@realDonaldTrump, 4/12/20]

Great businessman & philanthropist Bernie Marcus, Co-Founder of Home Depot, said that Congress was too distracted by the (phony) Impeachment Witch Hunt when they should have been investigating  CoronaVirus when it first appeared in China. Media played a big roll also!@dcexaminer [@realDonaldTrump, 4/12/20] 

A very good sign is that empty hospital beds are becoming more and more prevalent. We deployed 418 Doctors, Nurses and Respiratory Therapists from the hospital ship Comfort and the Javits Convention Center to hospitals in NYC & State. Have more bed capacity than was needed. Good!  [@realDonaldTrump, 4/12/20] 

Mail in ballots substantially increases the risk of crime and VOTER FRAUD!  [@realDonaldTrump, 4/11/20]

So now the Fake News @nytimes is tracing the CoronaVirus origins back to Europe, NOT China. This is a first! I wonder what the Failing New York Times got for this one? Are there any NAMED sources? They were recently thrown out of China like dogs, and obviously want back in. Sad!  [@realDonaldTrump, 4/11/20]

Governor @GavinNewsom of California has been very nice &  highly supportive about the great job we have done, working together, for California. That is the good news, but this is the bad. He is unfairly under attack by the Radical Left Dems, MSDNC etc. He is strong! Will he fold?  [@realDonaldTrump, 4/11/20]

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board doesn’t have a clue on how to fight and win. Their views on Tariffs & Trade are losers for the U.S., but winners for other countries, including China. If we followed their standards,  we’d have no Country left. They should love Sleepy Joe! [@realDonaldTrump, 4/11/20]

Watching @FoxNews on weekend afternoons is a total waste of time. We now have some great alternatives, like @OANN. [@realDonaldTrump, 4/11/20]

“The President and the Federal Government are doing an excellent job. When they say the death toll isn’t going to be as high as reported, they (the opposition) act like they’re sad because it’s lower. I think they are (Press Conferences) wonderful.” West Virginia Resident, C Span  [@realDonaldTrump, 4/11/20]

WE WILL BUILD IT AGAIN!  [@realDonaldTrump, 4/11/20]

When the Failing @nytimes or Amazon @washingtonpost writes a story saying “unnamed sources said”, or any such phrase where a person’s  name is not used, don’t believe them. Most of these unnamed sources don’t exist. They are made up to defame & disparage. They have no “source” Does anyone ever notice how few quotes from an actual person are given nowadays by the Lamestream Media. Very seldom. The unnamed or anonymous sources are almost always FAKE NEWS. [@realDonaldTrump, 4/11/20]

“I think the situation is unprecedented, and there is no question about that. It’s whiplash! The economy was moving forward at a rapid pace in terms of growth, jobs and even wage increases, and all of a sudden the pandemic hit and the economy was shuttered. This is unprecedented, it is unsettling and challenging but, we will rise to meet the occasion.” MACK MCLARTY, Clinton White House Chief of Staff. @LelandVittert @FoxNews Thank you Mack. We will be bigger, better and stronger than ever before! [@realDonaldTrump, 4/11/20]

The Invisible Enemy will soon be in full retreat! [@realDonaldTrump, 4/10/20]

Because the T.V. Ratings for the White House News Conference’s are the highest, the Opposition Party (Lamestream Media), the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats &, of course, the few remaining RINO’S, are doing everything in their power to disparage & end them. The People’s Voice!  [@realDonaldTrump, 4/10/20]