Long live death: Trump sidelines task force, says open economy
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By C.J. Atkins

"There will be more death," President Donald Trump said yesterday, less than 24 hours after a leaked CDC document showed new government models projecting the possibility of the U.S.' daily COVID-19 death toll doubling to 3,000 and infection rates soaring to 200,000 per day by June 1st in the wake of mass re-opening mandates.

Despite acknowledging the obvious, Trump said twice on Tuesday-in an interview and at a press conference-that the country must be willing to pay that price in order to save the economy.

"We can't keep our country closed," he declared. "Will some people be affected? Yes. Will some people be affected badly? Yes. But we have to get our country open." But "the people of our country are warriors," Trump said. "The virus will pass."

CNN reported that two officials from his government said the grim numbers in the leaked CDC report "are not currently expected to affect the White House's plans for reopening the country," and that the president intends to proceed with his deadly bargain.

With the U.S. facing what is expected to be its worst unemployment rate ever and the stock market gyrating wildly from week to week, Trump is rushing to reopen businesses in an attempt to salvage his flagging re-election campaign. Up until the coronavirus crisis, the president had said a vote for a second Trump term was a vote to continue the supposed economic boom....

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