Afraid of spooking the stock markets or impairing his reelection chances, Trump lied about the lethality of the virus. He insisted the contagion was under control and would soon magically disappear. Of course, the coronavirus was already spinning out of control in many of America’s cities and towns and stayed very much present throughout Trump’s fourth year in office. By fall, as voters decided whether Trump deserved another four years, more than 225,000 people had died in the United States, a higher death toll than any other nation had reported. The most powerful nation in the world held 4
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