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On the same day the virus kept grinding the country down, Trump leaned on executive orders and boastful messaging to suggest he had the crisis under control. The problem was that the administration’s own public remarks showed a White House still talking past the emergency rather than solving it. The gap between the spin and the reality was the story.
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On the same day the virus kept grinding the country down, Trump leaned on executive orders and boastful messaging to suggest he had the crisis under control. The problem was that the administration’s own public remarks showed a White House still talking past the emergency rather than solving it. The gap between the spin and the reality was the story.
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On the same day the virus kept grinding the country down, Trump leaned on executive orders and boastful messaging to suggest he had the crisis under control. The problem was that the administration’s own public remarks showed a White House still talking past the emergency rather than solving it. The gap between the spin and the reality was the story.
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