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Trump admitted playing down coronavirus danger

It took US President Donald Trump months to wear a mask in public for the first time

President Donald Trump admits he tried to minimize the seriousness of the threat from Covid-19 at the outset of the pandemic in audio recordings released Wednesday from interviews with veteran US journalist Bob Woodward.

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