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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Sep 13, 2020, 01:50 PM Sep 2020

Donald Trump says he didn't want to panic people ... then he tweeted this?

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump explained why he lied to the public in the crucial early days of the pandemic, publicly proclaiming the novel coronavirus no more dangerous than the flu while privately warning that it was “deadly stuff.”

“I don’t want people to be frightened,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday. “I don’t want to create panic, as you say. And certainly, I’m not going to drive this country or the world into a frenzy.”

This, from the president who on Thursday sent out this tweet:


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Trump lives on creating a frenzy

Trump’s entire political career is built on sending people into a frenzy, if not a full-blown panic …

… Whether it’s Mexicans who illegally cross the border (“The Mexican Government is forcing their most unwanted people into the United States. They are, in many cases, criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc.” drug dealers, criminals, rapists, etc”) …

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-says-didnt-want-110058820.html
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Donald Trump says he didn't want to panic people ... then he tweeted this? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
Trump is only one man, but all the republicans that enabled him are the ones I despised the most LuvJoe Sep 2020 #1
Absolutely. cilla4progress Sep 2020 #2
He is so mentally compromised he can't keep his bullshit straight... AZ8theist Sep 2020 #3
Ahh, I just laid another one. Time for the marshmallows. TheBlackAdder Sep 2020 #4
Putin pleasing though? Bannon too! czarjak Sep 2020 #5
Shit-for-brains Blue Owl Sep 2020 #6
rabble rouser spanone Sep 2020 #7
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