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== J-L ==
* [["Just Joking" Justification]]: The White House staff routinely backpedaled on his more outrageous and controversial pronouncements with a "Just Joking" excuse. A few examples:
** His notorious speech where [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kxG8uJUsWU he asks Russia] for help finding Hillary Clinton's emails, claiming they'd be rewarded? His base will always claim he was just kidding.
** In June 2020, when Trump proudly announced at a rally that he had ordered a slowdown of COVID-19 testing in the middle of the pandemic, [https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-claims-trump-joking-ordered-covid-testing/story?id=71389171 the White House quickly declared that he had been joking].
** Likewise when in April 2020 Trump solemnly recommended that the American people inject disinfectants and drink bleach to cure COVID-19, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/24/trumps-ridiculous-defense-his-comments-about-injecting-disinfectants/ the White House helpfully clarified that he was being "sarcastic".]
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