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Donald Trump: Led the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. By Election Day the United States had recorded roughly 9.4 million cases and more than 232,000 deaths, among the highest per-capita tolls of any large country at the time, and he told the journalist Bob Woodward that he had deliberately played down the virus in public.
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- Led the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. By Election Day the United States had recorded roughly 9.4 million cases and more than 232,000 deaths, among the highest per-capita tolls of any large country at the time, and he told the journalist Bob Woodward that he had deliberately played down the virus in public.
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