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There's a virus in the world. For some people, the virus is easy to see. Others don't see it at all.

Some say the virus isn't that bad. Others say it's malicious. And dangerous.

Since there are those who still can't see it, wouldn't it be smart to tell the truth about the virus?

Since there is a virus. The Lincoln Project is responsible for the content of this advertising.

That's a controversial new campaign ad from the Lincoln Project. A group of never-trumper

Republicans who are seeking to weaponize the corona crisis and use it to defeat the president

in this fall's election. It was conceived as a play on the famous 1984 Bear in the Woods ad

used by Ronald Reagan's campaign to highlight the threat of Soviet communism.

When the virus narrator makes the point that the public needs to hear the truth, since as he says,

there is a virus. It dissolves into a picture of Donald Trump. We'll talk to one of the never-trumper

Republicans behind the ad, veteran GOP consultant John Weaver, and we'll talk to democratic strategist

Joe Trippi about what to expect in a campaign conducted in the middle of a national public health

emergency on this episode of Skull Duggery.

Because people have got to know whether or not they're presidents of crook, well, I'm not a crook.

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage. My heart and my best intentions still

tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not. I did not have sexual

relations with that woman. There will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth

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