And good evening at the end of the day that saw American coronavirus fatalities surpass

120,000.

The White House was busy defending the president's use of a racist name for the disease and

has claimed that he ordered a slowdown on testing, which the people who get taxpayer salaries

and speak for him are now saying was made ingest.

None of which is doing anything to contain this disease.

In Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he made that so-called joke, new cases of the virus are rising

sharply as you see there.

As they are in Phoenix, where the president speaks tomorrow at a mega-church.

If it's a joke, what he said, again, is his defenders call it.

He made it on a trip in which eight of his own campaign staffers, eight of them, have

now tested positive for the disease.

We learned of the latest too, just today.

So that makes them the butt of the president's so-called joke as well.

And if it was a joke, it came with the expense of tens of thousands of people who'd need

not have died and might not have died, had more testing been available to contain outbreaks

instead of letting them grow.

Of a national plan for it, were in place, which it was not, and which still is not.

The plan put out by the White House is one that the White House and the president is now

actively working to subvert.

If it's a joke, it landed on the first of many Father's Day weekends in which some

children will not have their fathers around anymore.

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