06-23-2020, 03:21 PM
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/23/trump-joking-slowing-coronavirus-testing-335459
Trump doubled down on his suggestion that he wants to slow down testing to lower Covid #'s.
At his rally he said: “When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people. You’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please.’”
His trade advisor then called it "tongue in cheek" while the press secretary then said “It was a comment that he made in jest. Any suggestion that testing has been curtailed is not rooted in fact.”
Trump made it clear that he was serious:
“I don’t kid. Let me just tell you. Let me make it clear. We have got the greatest testing program anywhere in the world. We test better than anybody in the world. Our tests are the best in the world, and we have the most of them. By having more tests, we find more cases,”
Trump doubled down on his suggestion that he wants to slow down testing to lower Covid #'s.
At his rally he said: “When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people. You’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please.’”
His trade advisor then called it "tongue in cheek" while the press secretary then said “It was a comment that he made in jest. Any suggestion that testing has been curtailed is not rooted in fact.”
Trump made it clear that he was serious:
“I don’t kid. Let me just tell you. Let me make it clear. We have got the greatest testing program anywhere in the world. We test better than anybody in the world. Our tests are the best in the world, and we have the most of them. By having more tests, we find more cases,”