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The White House tried to project confidence and reopening momentum on April 30, but the underlying pandemic reality was much uglier. The gap between Trump’s upbeat performance and the testing, case, and public-health constraints on the ground left him open to the charge that he was pretending the crisis had already passed.
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The White House tried to project confidence and reopening momentum on April 30, but the underlying pandemic reality was much uglier. The gap between Trump’s upbeat performance and the testing, case, and public-health constraints on the ground left him open to the charge that he was pretending the crisis had already passed.
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