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It’s worth noting that this Fox News “virtual town hall” as they are calling it, is a very controlled interview environment, compared with President Trump’s usual daily White House briefings. He is being interviewed with two Fox news anchors and taking some phone calls.
Fox has selected the questions to put to Trump from “thousands” of video questions and calls it has received from viewers over the past week.
More on Trump’s town hall now, from AP:
Trump declared Sunday that he believed a vaccine could be available by year’s end, despite his own pandemic task force predicting it could be another 18 months.
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