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Trump’s Town Hall is back from an ad break, and the next video call is from a business which has not qualified for any financial support.
“At some point we have to open up our country. We can’t stay closed as a country or we won’t have a country left.”
Trump says the “greatest thing we can do is get rid of the virus”.
Meanwhile in Michigan:
Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan issued a rebuke of the armed protesters who gathered inside the state capitol last week in defiance of statewide lockdown orders, saying the demonstrators embodied some of the “worst racism” of the nation’s history.
Related: 'Swastikas and nooses': governor slams 'racism' of Michigan lockdown protest
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