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New York Daily News Uses Old Donald Trump Quote To Mark 500,000 Dead From COVID-19
The New York Daily News marked the grim national 500,000 death toll from COVID-19 on its front page Tuesday with an old quote from ex-President Donald Trump.
The tabloid newspaper’s cover recalled the then-president boasting on Feb. 26 last year that there were only 15 cases of the coronavirus in the United States and that those infections “within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
“So Far From Zero,” the headline screams in capital letters:
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Trump’s claim, however, contradicted his own admission in a Feb. 7, 2020, telephone call with journalist Bob Woodward that the virus was “deadly.”
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/new-york-daily-news-500000-coronavirus-cases-082831204.html
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