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   From the outset, Donald Trump has bungled our response to the coronavirus,   
   leaving America with the worst outbreak in the world with over 175,000   
   people dead, five million infected, and our economy reeling.   
      
       New York Times, 8/6/20: "one country stands alone, as the only   
       affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more   
       than four months: the United States."   
      
   Instead of listening to warnings from Vice President Biden and public   
   health experts, Trump praised the Chinese government's response and   
   mindlessly parroted their propaganda — failing to prepare America to deal   
   with the virus.   
      
       Washington Post, 3/20/20: "Trump's insistence on the contrary seemed   
       to rest in his relationship with China's President Xi Jingping, whom   
       Trump believed was providing him with reliable information about how   
       the virus was spreading in China, despite reports from intelligence   
       agencies that Chinese officials were not being candid about the true   
       scale of the crisis." New York Times, 4/11/2020: "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." POLITICO,   
       4/15/20: "Trump, however, echoed many of those same assurances   
       regarding China and its response to the virus throughout January and   
       February, as the unique coronavirus began to infiltrate countries   
       around the world. Just days before the U.S. recorded its first death   
       from Covid-19, Trump touted China's government for its transparency   
       and hard work to defeat the coronavirus that causes the illness."   
      
   As COVID-19 swept across our country, Trump bungled testing, leaving us   
   with persistent shortages and delays even now. And, Trump inexcusably   
   failed to get protective equipment to the heroes on the front lines of   
   this fight, opting to side with corporate lobbyists instead of heeding   
   Vice President Biden's call to fully invoke the Defense Production Act to   
   mobilize our economy to fight the virus.   
      
       New York Times, 3/28/20: "As the deadly virus spread from China with   
       ferocity across the United States between late January and early   
       March, large-scale testing of people who might have been infected did   
       not happen — because of technical flaws, regulatory hurdles,   
       business-as-usual bureaucracies and lack of leadership at multiple   
       levels." New York Times, 7/6/20: "In recent weeks, as cases have   
       surged in many states, the demand for testing has soared, surpassing   
       capacity and creating a new testing crisis." Washington Post, 7/8/20:   
       "Health-care workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic   
       are encountering shortages of masks, gowns, face shields and gloves —   
       a frustrating recurrence of a struggle that haunted the first months   
       of the crisis." CNN, 7/14/20: "Trump administration's delayed use of   
       1950s law leads to critical supplies shortages"   
      
   As the crisis mounted, Trump's failure to effectively lead undercut our   
   response to the pandemic at every turn and cost Americans their lives.   
      
       POLITICO, 3/7/20: "For six weeks behind the scenes, and now   
       increasingly in public, Trump has undermined his administration's own   
       efforts to fight the coronavirus outbreak — resisting attempts to plan   
       for worst-case scenarios, overturning a public-health plan upon   
       request from political allies and repeating only the warnings that he   
       chose to hear. Washington Post, 4/4/20: "It may never be known how   
       many thousands of deaths, or millions of infections, might have been   
       prevented with a response that was more coherent, urgent and   
       effective. But even now, there are many indications that the   
       administration's handling of the crisis had potentially devastating   
       consequences." NBC News, 3/14/20: "An examination of how the Trump   
       administration responded to the coronavirus outbreak that was first   
       documented in December reveals a story of missed opportunities,   
       mismanagement and a president who resisted the advice of experts   
       urging a more aggressive response."   
      
   Even after months of abject failure on COVID-19, Trump still refuses to   
   take the threat seriously, repeatedly claiming that it will simply   
   "disappear" even as he and his allies attack public health officials and   
   undermine the basic measures we need to control the virus.   
      
       POLITICO, 8/1/2020: "President Donald Trump publicly rebuked Dr.   
       Anthony Fauci on Saturday, forcefully rejecting the nation's top   
       infectious disease expert's testimony on why the U.S. has experienced   
       a renewed surge in coronavirus cases."   
      
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