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Really important: Senator @ChrisMurphyCT has formally asked the IGs at numerous government agencies to review whether those agencies are assisting with GOP "investigations" into the Bidens -- while systematically refuffing oversight of Trump. New piece:
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@ChrisMurphyCT We need a national discussion about this.

Numerous government agencies appear to be assisting with GOP efforts to smear the Bidens, to boost Trump's reelection effort.

Meanwhile, those agencies are helping shut down all legitimate oversight into Trump.

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@ChrisMurphyCT Republicans appear to be pursuing two separate narratives about Hunter Biden.

I looked pretty closely at both of them.

Thus far, there's nothing there.

I wouldn't rule out more emerging, but for now, these are nothingburgers.

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@ChrisMurphyCT Here's the bottom line.

Trump and his allies are corrupting everything in sight to hold on to power.

They are perverting and manipulating the machinery of government, placing it at the disposal of Trump's reelection effort in all kinds of corrupt ways:

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Something bad just happened.

Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked point blank whether our failure to act fast on coronavirus has put us on a course like Italy, which now has over 10,000 cases.

Dr. Fauci declined to answer directly. Just devastating.

New piece:

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Stipulated:

In an important sense, Trump is entirely absent from the conversation about what the federal government must *actually do right now* about coronavirus.

It's nothing but lies and chaos pixie dust. His impact has been uniformly destructive.

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“I don’t know of anyone who thinks there’s a good reason why we would not end up in a very similar position to Italy within two weeks....We could have been preparing for this for two months."

@JeremyKonyndyk, to me, in this piece:

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It's crucial that @JoeBiden just offered a scathing indictment of Trump's use of the virus to spread reactionary nationalist panic. It bodes well for the campaign. The idea that our open society is the culprit is nonsense, even in its sophisticated forms:
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@JoeBiden Trump is using coronavirus to fuel his reactionary nationalist fearmongering.

But there are "sophisticated" versions of this argument, too: That the disease somehow undermines the "globalist" impulse.

All of these arguments fall apart under scrutiny:

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@JoeBiden Our open society is not to blame for the spread of coronavirus. Instead, Biden rightly placed the blame on Trump's serial degradation of facts, science and governing capacity, and incompetent leadership made worse by his cynical downplaying of the crisis:

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If Trump and Republicans reject the new Democratic proposal on coronavirus in bad faith, House Dems will simply pass it and dump it in Trump's lap, challenging him to reject it, an aide tells me.

This is a lifeline. Trump should grab it.

New piece:

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The new Dem plan rests on four principles:

* Anyone who needs a test must get it
* Aid must be targeted to most vulnerable
* We need a much stronger safety net
* Our biggest problem is the virus is already here and spreading

Rs reject these, apparently.

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Here's the thing.

Trump's speech blaming Europe and China for coronavirus isn't just the usual demagoguery.

It's also *dangerous.* It distracts us from the real problem -- that coronavirus is *here* and spreading.

I talked to @jasonfurman about this:

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