During a Fox News virtual town hall meeting, Trump said, “I think we’re doing very well, but you know, it’s a two way street. They have to treat us well also. They can’t say, oh gee we should get this, we should get that. We’re doing a great job.”
He went on to repeat false claims that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo turned down an offer to buy 15,000 ventilators and that an economic shut down would kill more Americans than COVID-19.
Later that same week, Trump directed Pence not to respond to Democratic governors.
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