In a series of recent appearances, President Donald Trump continued to wrongly insist that the U.S. compares favorably with Europe on both coronavirus cases and deaths.
Trump Reprises Inaccurate COVID-19 Comparisons with Europe
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Trump’s Misleading COVID-19 Comparisons to Other Countries
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