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How the Media Completely Blew the Trump Ventilator Story

The administration handled the potential shortage deftly.

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Then-president Donald Trump speaks at the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House, April 18, 2020.

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At a coronavirus-task-force briefing at the beginning of April, White House adviser Jared Kushner explained the approach that would — as events proved — get the country through its ventilator crisis.

He was relentlessly pilloried, mocked, and distorted in the press for it.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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