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Trump spent the surrounding days trying to have it both ways on COVID vaccines: praising the shots, admitting he took them, and still leaving plenty of room for his movement’s anti-vax fever swamps to keep spinning. On September 19, that contradiction mattered because his own words were still being used as political cover by Republicans fighting Biden’s vaccine push. It was a messaging screwup with real public-health fallout.
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Trump spent the surrounding days trying to have it both ways on COVID vaccines: praising the shots, admitting he took them, and still leaving plenty of room for his movement’s anti-vax fever swamps to keep spinning. On September 19, that contradiction mattered because his own words were still being used as political cover by Republicans fighting Biden’s vaccine push. It was a messaging screwup with real public-health fallout.
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Trump spent the surrounding days trying to have it both ways on COVID vaccines: praising the shots, admitting he took them, and still leaving plenty of room for his movement’s anti-vax fever swamps to keep spinning. On September 19, that contradiction mattered because his own words were still being used as political cover by Republicans fighting Biden’s vaccine push. It was a messaging screwup with real public-healt…
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