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Day 1264: "Really not good."


Monday, July 6, 2020

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  • ???? Dept. of “We Have It Totally Under Control.”
  • Global: Total confirmed cases: ~11,600,000; deaths: ~537,000

  • U.S.: Total confirmed cases: ~2,923,000; deaths: ~131,000

  • Source: Johns Hopkins University

  • Live Blogs:
  • Friday: New York Times / Washington Post

  • Saturday: New York Times / Washington Post

  • Sunday: New York Times / Washington Post

  • Monday: New York Times / Washington Post / ABC News / Wall Street Journal

1/ Trump used the Fourth of July weekend to sow division during a global pandemic that has killed over 130,000 Americans, shirked his responsibility to contain the coronavirus, and promoted an updated version of his “American carnage” vision for the country. In a pair of remarks – at Mount Rushmore on Friday and from the White House on Saturday – Trump depicted the recent protests against racism and police brutality as an “angry mob” looking to “unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities” by “tear[ing] down our statues” in order to “erase our history” and “end America.” Trump, making no mention of the victims of police violence, warned of a “growing danger” to the values of the nation through a “merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children.” “Make no mistake,” Trump told several thousand people mostly without masks, “this left-wing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American Revolution.” Trump also claimed that media outlets “slander” him and “falsely and consistently label their opponents as racists.” Trump provided no evidence to support any of his claims. (New York Times / Washington Post / Associated Press / NPR / CNN / ABC News / Los Angeles Times / New York Times / Axios /


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