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The White House used its July 16 briefing to insist the president had “led the world” on testing and treatment, even as the pandemic kept raging and the administration was forced into increasingly strained messaging. The gap between the boast and the reality made the whole performance look less like leadership than an attempt to talk the virus into submission.
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The White House used its July 16 briefing to insist the president had “led the world” on testing and treatment, even as the pandemic kept raging and the administration was forced into increasingly strained messaging. The gap between the boast and the reality made the whole performance look less like leadership than an attempt to talk the virus into submission.
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The White House used its July 16 briefing to insist the president had “led the world” on testing and treatment, even as the pandemic kept raging and the administration was forced into increasingly strained messaging. The gap between the boast and the reality made the whole performance look less like leadership than an attempt to talk the virus into submission.
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