Daniel Dale

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Trump warns of a "horrific" period coming up with the virus. Back to script for a bit, he touts Americans' "unbreakable" spirit. He says he's never seen such unity. He says the economy used to be the best in world history. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says the National Guard is moving critical equipment from warehouses into hospitals or other places they're needed, since states were having issues, he says, getting them there from the warehouses. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is touting companies' efforts to produce and deliver critical medical supplies. He says, "We have large cargo planes coming in from various parts of the world" and landing in various US cities he lists. "They're actually coming in ahead of schedule." — PolitiTweet.org

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Esper says the best early use of the hospital ships is to treat trauma patients, since they're set up and trained for that, but they'll adjust as necessary. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says we're looking at "building" two new hospital ships, "probably two brand-new ones." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says the stockpile of personal protective equipment is indeed nearly empty: "It is." He says that this is "because we're sending it directly to hospitals." (Can't immediately fact-check this; here's CNN's story. https://t.co/zQ43aU9s6B) — PolitiTweet.org

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(To be clear, Trump was saying here that there used to be caravans but aren't anymore.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "I have hundreds of millions of people. Number one on Facebook...did you know?...I just found out." (He's never explained what "#1" means; he's not most-followed.) Shortly before that comment, CNN cut away from live-airing this not-coronavirus-so-far Trump session. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says he's seen "many families" that have been "wiped out" because of drug addiction. He touts the wall repeatedly. He laments the state of illegal immigration before he took office. He calls AMLO "a great guy." "All of the caravans coming up...marching through Mexico..." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on medical supplies: "We do have excess of certain things, and we don't have enough of others." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "We're soon going to have more ventilators than we need." He adds, "Nobody could've known a thing like this would happen." Again, there were years of warnings from inside and outside government. https://t.co/UFZJozyYnL — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump, touting the border wall, said 160 miles had been built. Per the latest official update from CBP, it was 147 total miles as of March 27. But only 2 of those miles were entirely new. Here's the info, via @priscialva: https://t.co/jk4mREOCZj — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says his Twitter warning about a possible "sneak attack" by Iran or its proxies was about plans by "not necessarily Iran, but groups supported by Iran. But that, to me, is Iran." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is now touting the border wall. "Nobody's seen anything like it, that's how good it works." He falsely says "everybody" wanted a wall five years ago. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on today's narcotics announcement: "For a long time we've had a lot of drugs coming into our country...Families are being ruined, lives are being ruined, it's an incredible thing...I see things that nobody would believe...I see reports that nobody would believe." — PolitiTweet.org

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The briefing is now discussing the threat posed by Mexican drug cartels. I'll resume tweeting when it gets to the pandemic. — PolitiTweet.org

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Defense Secretary Mark Esper is at the coronavirus briefing. He's talking about "enhanced counter-narcotics operations" in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific. https://t.co/aGGWR8Wgj7 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Yamiche: .@wolfblitzer repeats Q after VP Pence doesn't answer directly: Why was U.S. so late in its coronavirus response? Pence: We c… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ryanstruyk: Pence on @CNN just now: "We think Italy may be the most comparable area to the United States at this point." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KFILE: Remember the mid-March Rose Garden announcement with executives from CVS, Target, Walgreens and Walmart where Trump said they’d… — PolitiTweet.org

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Ok here’s a video https://t.co/B0JiANcThG — PolitiTweet.org

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Day 20: For scale https://t.co/xGJ77V61g2 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ddale8: After depicting the coronavirus as the flu and arguing life should go on as normal, Trump now portrays himself as the man who s… — PolitiTweet.org

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@jeskeets Is this lady from the future? https://t.co/klXSWiQFRZ — PolitiTweet.org

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@JLew1050 Serge was the only other Raptor who seemed non-overwhelmed offensively that day. Kawhi was like the team dad and Serge the team uncle — PolitiTweet.org

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After depicting the coronavirus as the flu and arguing life should go on as normal, Trump now portrays himself as the man who saved lives by standing up to the people who depicted the coronavirus as the flu and argued life should go on as normal. https://t.co/U047SoYyP3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s Trump’s public schedule for tomorrow. (Public schedules don’t include all of a president’s activities.) https://t.co/HqSOr7KeUs — PolitiTweet.org

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@patrick_hruby @david_j_roth Question: what does it mean when people put up the Roth Siren? — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked if he knew how severe this problem could get back when he was falsely claiming the virus was under control, Trump said, "I thought it could be. I knew everything. I knew it could be horrible. And I knew it could be maybe good." — PolitiTweet.org

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Per Bill Frischling of @FactbaseFeed, that press conference was the longest Trump public event of any kind since he launched his campaign, with the exception of debates. It was even longer than his 2019 CPAC speech. — PolitiTweet.org