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Trump's mixed messages about the coronavirus pandemic aren't helping

Here's one of the great journalistic questions in our age: If a politician does something scandalous in plain sight, even on purpose, is there still a scandal?

President Donald Trump has raised that question in my mind many times. The latest came in an over-the-shoulder photo that Washington Post photographer Jabin Botsford caught of the president's speech text during his daily coronavirus news briefing Thursday.

Blown-up, the photo shows the word "corona," a medical term for a family of viruses, crossed out and the word "Chinese" put

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