Trump's 100 Days of Deadly Coronavirus Denial
The Mother Jones Podcast
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🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
It’s been 100 days since the first case of the coronavirus was diagnosed in the United States. And it's been 100 days of the Trump administration denying, deflecting, and shifting blame. What can the first 100 days tell us about the upcoming presidential election? How will Trump’s leadership (or lack thereof) during the pandemic affect him politically? How is Joe Biden adjusting to a remote campaign? On this week’s episode, Jamilah King talks to Mother Jones’ DC bureau chief David Corn and senior reporter Tim Murphy. They get into Trump’s “blame China” strategy, Joe Biden’s podcast, and how a Tiger King cast member helped spice up a congressional candidate’s live stream event.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Mother Jones Podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | I'm Jamila King in Brooklyn. |
| 0:04.4 | On today's show, it's been |
| 0:11.6 | on today's show, it's been 100 days since the first confirmed COVID-19 case in the United States. |
| 0:21.0 | 100 days of downplaying, spin, deflection, and denial. |
| 0:25.0 | Because of all we've done, the risk to the American people remains very low. |
| 0:30.0 | While Trump supporters take to the streets, demanding that the economy be reopened. |
| 0:35.0 | It's imperative that we get our economy going again. |
| 0:38.0 | How the first hundred days has already reshaped modern American politics, |
| 0:43.2 | and what the next 100 might hold. |
| 0:47.1 | That's all coming up. |
| 0:48.0 | Stay tuned. Don't forget. As the coronavirus rages across communities in the United States, |
| 1:02.3 | there's still a presidential election happening in the fall. |
| 1:10.0 | In April, as hundreds of Americans died each day from COVID-19, Donald Trump |
| 1:16.6 | sent a message to his supporters, offering them an exclusive deal. |
| 1:20.1 | If they donated just $31 to his campaign, they would get a pine glass. |
| 1:27.0 | Not a mask, not a hand sanitizer, or even paper towels. |
| 1:32.0 | The email was a fundraising effort to shore up the Trump-Pence |
| 1:36.8 | 2020 ticket. It's hard to remember while we're stuck in our homes or out doing our essential jobs, |
| 1:43.2 | but there's still a campaign going on. |
| 1:45.8 | And Trump, an expert in spin, |
| 1:47.8 | has spent most of his days deflecting blame |
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