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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Jul 7, 2021, 02:05 PM Jul 2021

TFG wanted to use the COVID-19 pandemic to call off the 2020 election, Wolff book says [View all]

President Donald Trump suggested using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse not to hold the 2020 election, according to a new book.

An excerpt from Michael Wolff's book "Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency" published in The Times of London on Tuesday said that Trump raised the prospect twice over the summer.

The excerpt said that in July 2020, Trump had been mulling ways of managing the pandemic without angering his largely anti-mask, anti-lockdown political base.

Then, Wolff wrote, Trump brought up another idea: delaying the election over the pandemic. He later spoke of "calling it off," the book said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-wanted-covid-19-pandemic-095124772.html

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