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On the recordMarch 7, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic came to America in 2020, of course, when Donald Trump was President. And that President's policy failures, magical thinking, and total recklessness caused, according to his own special advisor on COVID, Deborah Birx, the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

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Raskin criticizes Trump's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences.

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