"The captain should not have written a letter. He didn't need to be Ernest Hemingway" -- Trump on Captain Crozier, who wrote a letter expressing concern that his ship was infected with coronavirus
Trump on February White House memo addressed directly to him that warned of potentially millions of coronavirus deaths in the US: "I didn't see it."
REPORTER: You said in February that within a couple days coronavirus cases would be down to zero.

TRUMP: Well, the cases really didn't build up for a while.
Trump wants you to believe that he never saw a memo written by one of his top advisers (Peter Navarro) directly addressed to him in February that warned of millions of US deaths
Trump's new coronavirus talking point is to try and offload blame to the WHO
An awkward moment as Trump is asked about the wisdom of cutting funding to the World Health Organization during a pandemic
Here's the president ranting at length about the Post Office during a #TrumpPressBriefing about a deadly pandemic
Trump still hasn't figured out that the 1918 flu pandemic didn't happen in 1917
Trump accuses Wisconsin Democrats of wanting to move today's election because they were scared about Trump endorsing a Republican, not because of the deadly pandemic. He then pushes lies about mail-in voting enabling cheating.
"I really think it's a great thing to try, just based on what I know" -- we've reached the Trump Pushes Unproven Drugs portion of the April 7 briefing
Trump indicates he has reservations about the work of any inspector general who wasn't appointed by him
Asked about whether it was a good idea to urge people to go vote today in Wisconsin amid a deadly pandemic, Trump dodges the question and mentions that he won Wisconsin in 2016.
Trump tries to blame Wisconsin's Democratic governor, who wanted to delay the election but was stymied by Republicans, for the fact the election wasn't delayed
Trump just completely makes shit up to try and make it seem as though mail-in voting enables cheating (there's no evidence it does)
Trump bizarrely refuses to take a question from a reporter about oil because the reporter can't tell him what the price of oil is
Trump takes a softball question from ultra-sycophantic OAN and then ends his portion of the news briefing
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