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Here's a longer quote https://t.co/nudD1zjnEq — PolitiTweet.org

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"I'm sure people are enjoying it," Trump says of his long coronavirus briefing. He adds it's an incredibly dark topic but also "incredibly interesting." People are "going crazy, they can't get enough," he says. — PolitiTweet.org

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"You can talk rabbis...I have tremendous support from religious leaders." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says Pence once during this crisis went the entire day without sleeping, all 24 hours, and then went back to work the next day. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says this is probably the worst thing the country has "ever seen." He specifically invokes the Civil War and world wars. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump wrongly suggests he "stopped" travel from parts of Italy before he imposed his broader European restrictions. He issued travel advisories for hard-hit Italian regions, but never stopped travel from Italy in particular. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: I knew how bad it was. All you had to do was look at the initial numbers from China. But "I'm not about bad news, I want to give people hope, I want to give people a feeling that we all have a chance." — PolitiTweet.org

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(I am officially withdrawing my tweet about how this press conference did not involve a barrage of specific false claims.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says "who would ever think" you'd need 16,000 ventilators? Here is an entire article about all the warnings about how a severe pandemic would require many thousands of ventilators. One specified 60,000. https://t.co/UFZJozyYnL — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump declined to address the substance of Cuomo's criticism of this ventilator acquisition process that pits states against other states. Instead, he accuses Cuomo of being a complainer and says he should appreciate what the state has been given. — PolitiTweet.org

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Reporter says Cuomo's criticism of ventilator-acquisition process, which Cuomo said involves states fighting other states. Trump: "He was complaining?" He adds, "He shouldn't be complaining because we gave him a lot of ventilators." "No matter what you give, it's never enough." — PolitiTweet.org

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"They probably illegally impeached me," Trump says of his impeachment that was not at all illegal. (He then says he was talking about FBI problems/errors pointed out by the inspector general.) — PolitiTweet.org

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"We stopped all of Europe," Trump says of travel restrictions that did not apply to all European countries and contained multiple exemptions. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump February 26: "This is a flu. This is like a flu." "I mean, view this the same as the flu." Trump today: "A lot of people" said, "Ride it out. Don’t do anything, just ride it out and think of it as the flu.’ But it’s not the flu. It's vicious." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "We watch the shows at night." He is talking about how military leaders are "the best guests." He says, "I guess I'm tired of the other guests, in all fairness." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump repeats his regular false claim that "we had no ammunition in the military." He has taken military officials' real previous remarks about a shortage of precision-guided bombs, because of the anti-ISIS campaign, and turned it into "no ammunition" period. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump keeps saying we know that hydroxychloroquine won't kill you because it's been previously approved for other purposes. That is just not how this works. There can be serious side effects even when it's used for the approved use. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump explains that the strategic reserve of medical supplies is like an oil reserve, except more valuable. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on ventilators: If the surge is strong in Louisiana, as it could be, we can "immediately" bring 1,000 or 2,000 ventilators to them. "We have great flexibility...we'll be able to distribute them very quickly..." "Detroit came out of nowhere...it comes out of nowhere..." — PolitiTweet.org

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Rather than the usual barrage of specific false claims, this briefing has featured a dishonest overall narrative -- a Trump effort to cast himself as the leader who stood strong against the faction that downplayed the severity of the virus. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump describes the oil price crash as, in a way, "the greatest tax cut we've ever given." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says that there is oil all over the ocean right now. "The boats are all filled...ships that were dying..." — PolitiTweet.org

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All together now: Americans pay the tariffs. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump, who downplayed the situation for weeks even after it was clear it would be a crisis here, is portraying himself as the person who defended the country against a "ride it out" faction that didn't take the crisis seriously enough. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says "a lot of people" wanted him to just "ride it out" as if it was "the flu." "It's not the flu," he says, correctly. But *HE* repeatedly likened it to the flu. He said four days ago that you can call it a flu. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump agrees it is "sobering" when the "minimum number" is 100,000. "100,000 is, is -- according to modeling, a very low number." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is making a persistent effort to argue that he is responsible for saving the country from a much worse fate than the 100,000+ deaths he's now saying are projected. https://t.co/EFWVAxq1gb — PolitiTweet.org

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If he had done nothing, Trump says, there would be death "all over" -- people dying "on airplanes" and "in hotel lobbies" -- so that wouldn't have been a reasonable course. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says he's been asking Fauci and Birx for a long time what would've happened if they did nothing, if he listened to the "group" he says advised him to "ride it out." And in that case, he repeats, it'd be 1.5 to 2.2 million people. — PolitiTweet.org

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I deleted and reposted this tweet because I didn't hear him the first time saying he "would." My fault. — PolitiTweet.org