Thread by @jennfranconews

#HappeningNow: President Trump deliver's today's WH briefing, opening with the number of jobs added to the economy in recent months.

"We've been affected less than any Western nation..."

Says we're witnessing fastest recovery, slams Obama for slowest recovery.

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#NEW: President Trump says Europe yesterday saw 50% more deaths than the U.S. and "you don't hear these statistics."

"I really do believe we're rounding the corner... we already have therapeutics out there."

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#NEW: President Trump once again makes his pitch to resume in-person learning, saying less than 0.2% of COVID-19 deaths are among people under the age of 25, which the President says most had underlying conditions.

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#NEW: President Trump accuses Joe Biden of using the pandemic "for political gain."

Says Democrats and Biden called his ban on travel to China "Xenophobic."

"Biden has launched a public campaign against the vaccine which is so bad."

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#NEW: President Trump says Joe Biden is willing to endanger the lives of the American people because his poll numbers are slipping.

Says Democrats are throwing statistics "out the window" by imposing "blanket shut downs"

"We're not going to be doing that."

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#BREAKING: President Trump says Sec. of State Pompeo is heading to Qatar for the start of intra-Afghan peace negotiations.

Says "no deaths, no problems since early February."

Says we'll be down to 4,000 soldiers in Afghanistan very soon, & down to 2,000 in Iraq "very soon."