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Coronavirus US: 61,492 new cases recorded, second highest day on record – live updates
California dramatically rolls back reopening processHow racial bias dogs US coronavirus response at every levelAlabama, Maine and Texas to vote in primaries todayUS carries out first federal execution for 17 yearsSign up to our First Thing newsletter 1.48pm BST Adm. Brett Giroir has been doing the TV round this morning, and gave a pretty snappy response when he was asked about the accusation that Donald Trump retweeted yesterday that the CDC and “most” doctors were lying about the coronavirus outbreak.Asked directly on NBC’s Today whether the CDC and other doctors are lying, Giroir, a top member of the White House coronavirus task force, said that mistakes have been made and that public guidance is updated when more is learned about the virus, “but none of us lie. We are completely transparent with the American people.” 1.36pm BST Richard Wolffe has a new column for us today - where he argues that Donald Trump may be no good at leading America – but he’s really, really good at lyingCredibility was one of the most potent weapons in America’s arsenal of soft power. The kind of potency that allowed Kennedy’s secretary of state to convince Charles de Gaulle to support his case against the Soviet Union in the Cuban missile crisis. Based on Kennedy’s word, not the photographic evidence. Today America’s credibility has been contorted to protect the feelings of one man-child, not the security of a nation. That’s why someone like Anthony Fauci is so deeply offensive to the factory of fraud built inside this White House. Related: Trump may be no good at leading America – but he is really, really good at lying | Richard Wolffe Continue reading...
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