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Trump is raging at Michigan's @GovWhitmer for criticizing him.

But here's the backstory.

A recent federal delivery of coronavirus supplies to a hospital on front lines was enough for *one shift.*

I spoke to Whitmer's office. It's hair-raising stuff:

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@GovWhitmer Trump, on Michigan's @GovWhitmer:

"All she does is blame the federal government. And we send her a lot."

This is just deeply wretched and depraved.

Here's what's really going on in Michigan right now, according to Whitmer and her office:

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@GovWhitmer Let's get real:

It's perfectly plausible that Trump sees his explicit hand-washing of responsibility for the mounting death toll in certain parts of the country as something that will appeal to parts of the country that he perceives as his own.

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@GovWhitmer Simply extraordinary, from the AP:

"Trump has kept a close eye on the coronavirus media coverage and noted which local officials were praising or criticizing him."

The very idea that this would be preoccupying Trump at this moment is utter madness:

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Greg Sargent
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Newsflash:

When one side shapes its coronavirus response around facts and science, and the other prioritizes cultlike devotion to Trump over protecting American lives, this isn't "tribalism" or "partisanship."

We need a deep language reset.

New piece:

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Yes, this is real:

"One adviser said the president recognized that the data about the potential impact of the virus in the US was bad, and could not be bent to his will."

Of course, Trump did try to bend the data to his will for months:

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A deep perversity:

Trump is attacking the media and Dem governors for criticizing him on coronavirus. But he actually owes them a huge debt of gratitude.

They're reorienting him onto a far more constructive course, for the country and for *him* as well:

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Greg Sargent
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As coronavirus took hold in the US, "large-scale testing of people who might have been infected did not happen...the result was a lost month, when the world’s richest country...squandered its best chance of containing the virus’s spread."

Utterly damning:
nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/…
Amazing detail from NYT's deep dive on Trump's epic testing fiasco:

HHS chief Azar *actively downgraded* his warning to the country about the severity of what was coming, contradicting another top official who *got it right* but had infuriated Trump:

nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/…
Here, in a nutshell, is the brutal and damning conclusion of this remarkable NYT report:

"Faced with the coronavirus, Trump chose not to have the White House lead the planning until nearly two months after it began."

nytimes.com/2020/03/28/us/…
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Greg Sargent
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NO, Trump is not going to magically transform himself into FDR. Stop sweating over his approval ratings.

Also, the Biden campaign tells us it will absolutely continue making a robust case against Trump's rolling coronavirus fiasco.

@paulwaldman1 and me:

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@paulwaldman1 We looked at the soaring approval ratings enjoyed by LBJ, Jimmy Carter, and George W. Bush amid their crises, as a point of comparison to Trump now (cc @redistrict):

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@paulwaldman1 @Redistrict This entire website went nuts because an unnamed outside Biden adviser told @RyanLizza that people don't want to hear Trump criticized right now.

We did something crazy and asked the Biden campaign for their view of this. They shot it down hard:

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