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“‘This is a historically new challenge and we’ve really risen to the occasion,’ Kushner said in an interview. ‘When history looks back on this they’ll say, man, the federal government acted really quickly and creatively, they threw a lot at the problem and saved a lot of lives.’” @graykimbrough/1256931067723948033On twitter.com
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“‘Sometimes — and I felt this way with 9/11 — things are so big, so horrible, that if you’re the guy in charge, it makes you a little more humble,’ said former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who as Trump’s personal lawyer has been speaking regularly with the president.”Permalink On twitter.com
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“A former senior administration official briefed on the internal dynamics described the consensus mind-set among this bloc [Short, Hassett, Kushner, Mnuchin, Kudlow &c] as believing health officials were ‘like the school nurse trying to tell the principal how to run the school.’”Permalink On twitter.com
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“‘There’s a little bit of a God complex,’ one senior admin official said of [task force members with medical degrees]. ‘They’re all about science, science, science, which is good, but sometimes there’s a little bit less of a consideration of politics when maybe there should be.’”Permalink On twitter.com
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“Trump had 25 one-on-one calls with governors from at least 14 states in April, aides said, while members of the Cabinet and coronavirus task force had at least 113 such conversations.” For reference • 50 states • 30 days • ~22 Task Force, 23 Cabinet members (overlapping)Permalink On twitter.com
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