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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Greg Abbott, governor of Texas, not pictured, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, May 7, 2020.<\/p>\n

Doug Bills | The New York Times | Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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President Donald Trump<\/a> said Friday he’s not to blame after the Labor Department reported that\u00a0more than 20 million jobs had been slashed last month<\/a>, when the U.S. economy buckled under the strain of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

“It’s fully expected, there’s no surprise,” Trump said in a Fox News interview, which took place as the devastating jobs report came out.<\/p>\n

“Even the Democrats aren’t blaming me for that,” Trump said. “But what I can do is I’ll bring it back.”<\/p>\n

The president’s comments on the economy followed lengthy remarks celebrating the Justice Department’s move a day earlier to drop its case against Michael Flynn<\/a>, Trump’s first national security advisor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump decried the “deep state” and attacked the government officials who pursued the “hoax” investigation into whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia during the 2016 election.<\/p>\n

“These are dirty politicians and dirty cops and horrible people. And hopefully they’re going to pay a big price someday in the not-too-distant future,” Trump said.<\/p>\n

Trump was not asked about, and did not mention, the coronavirus pandemic\u00a0until more than 15 minutes into the interview.The virus has\u00a0killed more than 75,000 Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The coronavirus-induced economic freeze has taken a historic toll, the new Labor Department figures show: 20.5 million workers were slashed from nonfarm payrolls in April, and the unemployment rate shot up to 14.7%.<\/p>\n

The Great Recession peak was 10% in October 2009.<\/p>\n

Trump lamented on Fox that he was forced to virtually “close the country,” but added that “if I didn’t, we would have lost 2 million, 2\u00bd million [people], maybe more than that.”<\/p>\n

“And we’ll be at 100,000, 110 [thousand deaths] — the lower level of what was projected if we did the shutdown,” the president said.<\/p>\n

“Still, you’re talking about two Yankee Stadiums of people. It’s unacceptable.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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