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Trump’s diary of lies
President Donald Trump pauses as he speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House

DONALD TRUMP’S declarations on coronavirus are about as convincing as his false blond rug. 

One US media source has counted 1,517 misrepresentations, falsifications, untruths and just plain lies from their president over just the coronavirus pandemic. 

Many are tweets in the middle of the night, so some dates may be a day out. We don’t have room to print them all here. This is just small selection:

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