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Trump Leads Pro-Plague States of America to a COVID Civil War

BREAKING OUT

He is telling us plainly that he will stoke civil unrest and further harm public health to find a political pathway out of a galactic-scale fuck-up of his own making.

Rick Wilson

Editor-at-Large

Updated Apr. 18, 2020 10:36AM ET / Published Apr. 17, 2020 8:54PM ET 
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Donald Trump fired the first shots in the COVID Civil War this week, a modern-day Jefferson Davis of the Pro-Plague States of America sending his opening salvo from Fort Twitter at Democratic governors who dared to question if it wasn’t just a wee bit early to end the stay-at-home orders in states still far to the left of the peak.

He started the week with claims of “total authority” and then cried about a supposed mutiny by mouthy state leaders. By Friday, he was up to calls to “liberate” states. 

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