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COVID-19 news: Trump suggests 100,000 U.S. deaths would be a victory; CNN defends airing Trump live NewsColony • In a Monday morning Fox & Friends call , Trump dismissed calls for vote-by-mail during the pandemic, suggesting the calls for easier voting were partisan. “The things they had in [the bill] were crazy. They had levels of voting that if you ever agreed to it you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” • Trump claimed, in a call with state governors desperate for medical supplies and test kits, that he “hasn’t heard anything about testing in weeks.” • General Electric workers protested today to demand GE rapidly retool its jet engine manufacturing plants to produce desperately needed ventilators. GE is already one of the nation’s largest ventilator manufacturers, but has announced layoffs of 2,600 aviation workers due to the pandemic’s industry effects. • After legislation to provide Americans with one-time payments of $1,200 to offset the economi...