Kushner defends Trump Administration on COVID, says US is “somewhere in the middle” of pandemic

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Watch: In an August 2020 interview for GZERO World, and with 180,000 known coronavirus deaths in the US, Jared Kushner defends the Trump administration's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, though he admits there is still much work to be done before the nation reaches the end of this challenge.

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