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Donald Trump has turned to Twitter to argue that Black Lives Matter protesters, angered by the police murder of George Floyd, would have annihilated the city of Minneapolis if he had not sent the National Guard to stop the protests, also fighting with the presenter of CNN Chris Cuomo and Dr. Anthony Fauci as they seek to distract themselves from the coronavirus resurgence.
Dr. Fauci warned Thursday that the United States “is not going in the right direction” after the country reported 55,000 new cases of Covid-19 in one day, breaking the world record for a daily increase set by Brazil on June 19. .
The states of Arizona, California, Florida and Texas alone accounted for 25,000 of that total as assistant health secretary Brett Giroir warned: “We are not flattening the curve at this time. The curve keeps going up. “
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Trump says Black Lives Matter protesters would have ‘wiped out’ Minneapolis without National Guard intervention
Here’s Trump reuniting peaceful activists with the minority of arsonists and opportunistic looters on what turned out to be a busy night for him on social media.
He also mocked Cuomo, who recently recovered from Covid-19 and is the brother of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, with the insult “Fredo”, comparing him to the Judas character from The Godfather Part I and II played by the great John Cazale, a blow that the journalist has not taken into account in the past.
The president also reiterated his claim that “massive” testing efforts are to blame for the increase in the coronavirus, and again insisted that the vote by mail is ready for fraud and could lead to a skewed election result in November (ie , a victory for Joe Biden).
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