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Donald Trump: “The plan was to leave the hard work of tracking and containing the virus to the States. That's all the messy work, the…”

On the recordOctober 27, 2020
The plan was to leave the hard work of tracking and containing the virus to the States. That's all the messy work, the stuff that's you might get blamed for. The plan was they take credit for success. Human lives be damned, the opening up.
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Donald Trump
Republican · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Anderson Cooper discusses the Trump administration's approach to handling the pandemic, citing Jared Kushner's admission about the strategy.

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