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In a Fox News town hall on May 3, Trump told viewers the U.S. would likely end up with about 100,000 coronavirus deaths, a grim revision from earlier hopes that the toll would stay far lower. The new number was not reassuring so much as surrender: a newly normalized catastrophe wrapped in upbeat language about reopening and recovery.
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In a Fox News town hall on May 3, Trump told viewers the U.S. would likely end up with about 100,000 coronavirus deaths, a grim revision from earlier hopes that the toll would stay far lower. The new number was not reassuring so much as surrender: a newly normalized catastrophe wrapped in upbeat language about reopening and recovery.
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In a Fox News town hall on May 3, Trump told viewers the U.S. would likely end up with about 100,000 coronavirus deaths, a grim revision from earlier hopes that the toll would stay far lower. The new number was not reassuring so much as surrender: a newly normalized catastrophe wrapped in upbeat language about reopening and recovery.
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