TRUMP: "We have a stockpile. It is a federal stockpile. We can use it for states, or we can use it for ourselves. We do use it for the federal government. We have a very big federal government."
After Dr. Birx defends Trump& #39;s handling of the coronavirus, @Acosta points out that "the president was saying this is going to go away."

"I said it& #39;s going away. And it is going away," Trump retorts.
. @jonkarl: Cuomo says NY may be days away from running out of ventilators. Can you assure NY that they will have the ventilators they need?

TRUMP: "No. They should& #39;ve had more ventilators at the time. They should& #39;ve had more ventilators."
Trump has been president for more than 3 years and has never done anything for infrastructure but now he says, "infrastructure is a great thing for me."
Trump has jokes: "The models show hundreds of thousands of people are going to die and you know what I want to do? I want to come way under the model. The professionals did the models and I was never involved in a model. At least this kind of a model."
Trump ends the press briefing with some thoughts on voting rights: "I think a lot of people cheat with mail-in voting. I think people should with ID -- voter ID ... you should have a picture for voting. It should be called voter ID."
Rather than do everything he can do to save lives in New York right now, Trump seems to prefer holding ventilators in reserve for a future circumstance where other states (perhaps ones more crucial to his reelection hopes) are in need. https://www.vox.com/2020/4/3/21207650/trump-coronavirus-press-conference-new-york-ventilators-cuomo">https://www.vox.com/2020/4/3/...
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