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Trump calls CNN ‘dumb bast**ds’ in fiery attack during Arizona rally and hits out at Chris Cuomo
PRESIDENT Donald Trump called CNN "dumb bast**ds" during his campaign rally in Arizona on Monday.
claimed the news network is only covering the to try to prevent Americans from voting in the .
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"You turn on that's all they cover," Trump said. "Covid, Covid pandemic, Covid."
"They're trying to talk everybody out of voting. They're not buying it, CNN, you dumb bast**rds."
As of Monday, more than 8.3million Covid cases and over 224,000 virus-related deaths have been reported in the US.
Those numbers far exceed other countries’ reported coronavirus numbers, with coming in second with 7.5million reported cases and nearly 115,000 deaths.
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Trump went on to say that "all" , who was diagnosed with coronavirus earlier this year, talks about is Covid.
"I'm not sure he had it," the president alleged. "Only time his ratings were up was when he had Covid."
Trump explained to the crowd of his supporters that he was also diagnosed with Covid – .
"Well I had it and they say, 'You're not gonna catch it again,' and that's OK with me."
The president claimed CNN employees "were happy when they heard" he had the deadly virus.
He said commentators said that Trump "looks better now than he did before" – adding to the crowd he wasn't sure if it was a compliment.
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Trump went on to say he's planning to make regeneron – the that he claims cured his coronavirus –
In a recent Fox News interview, free of charge.
"I took a certain that was very miraculous to me – and I really don't think it's just in the head," he explained.
"I just felt very good," Trump said of the medicine. "You would have sort of a sore throat, but I felt really very good after taking this for a period of time.
“It’s a transfusion, not a shot. I’d like to send it to everybody. We're going to send it to everybody free of charge."
Trump told Rush Limbaugh during his radio show weeks ago that he could have become really sick and might not have recovered from coronavirus without experimental drugs.
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“I was asking the doctors today … and I said, ‘How bad was I?’ They said: ‘You could have been very bad. You were going into a very bad phase,'" Trump said.
After contracting the virus, Trump said he was “not in the greatest of shape" and said he “might not have recovered at all” without treatment with experimental drugs.
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“It was primarily this one drug," Trump said of regeneron. "It just wiped out the virus. It wiped it out.”
Trump said on Sunday that if he listened to coronavirus experts telling him to lock down the country,
said he was “absolutely not surprised” that Trump contracted coronavirus just over two weeks ago.
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"When I saw that on TV, I said, 'Oh my goodness. Nothing good can come out of that, that's got to be a problem,'" he continued.
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