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Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer delivered a harsh rebuke of Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Echoing Michelle Obama’s speech last night, Schumer criticized Trump for previously saying of the country’s coronavirus death toll, “It is what it is.”
Former acting attorney general Sally Yates, who served under Democratic and Republican administrations, opened her speech by noting she never expected to address a political convention.
Yates, who gained prominence after she was fired for refusing to defend Trump’s executive order banning travel from several predominantly Muslim countries, said the president’s “relentless attacks on our democratic institutions” should alarm every American.
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