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At a White House coronavirus briefing, Trump suggested the U.S. case count would soon be close to zero, even as officials were organizing a much broader response. The message was wildly out of sync with the evidence and set up a credibility problem that got worse by the hour.
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At a White House coronavirus briefing, Trump suggested the U.S. case count would soon be close to zero, even as officials were organizing a much broader response. The message was wildly out of sync with the evidence and set up a credibility problem that got worse by the hour.
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