Celebrity Vetting and ‘Helping the President’ to Defeat Coronavirus Despair

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URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/politics/coronavirus-public-relations-trump.html
ISSN: 0362-4331
type: article-newspaper
title: Celebrity Vetting and ‘Helping the President’ to Defeat Coronavirus Despair
author:
  - given: Noah
    family: Weiland
  - given: Sharon
    family: LaFraniere
issued:
  - day: 29
    year: 2020
    month: 10
source: NYTimes.com
section: U.S.
abstract: In a letter to Alex M. Azar II, the health secretary, House Democrats detailed
  how a \$265 million public relations campaign tried to bolster President Trump.
language: en-US
container-title: The New York Times
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is an investigative report into the Department of Health and Human Services under President Trump. The report was published by the New York Times on October 29th, 2020. It revealed that the department attempted to use a $265-million dollar public relations campaign centered around COVID-19 in September 2020 to support the president's reelection bid.

## Report

[helping the president will help the country | helping the president will help the country]. The $265 million public campaign to “defeat despair” around the coronavirus was planned partly around the politically tinged theme that “helping the president will help the country”.

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