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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Apr 20, 2020, 12:53 PM Apr 2020

AP FACT CHECK: Trump's misdirection on virus testing, deaths

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is falsely assigning blame to governors and the Obama administration for shortages in coronavirus testing.

For much of the week, he was pretender to a throne that didn't exist as he claimed king-like powers over the pandemic response and Congress. But by the weekend, he was again saying governors called the shots and they are the ones to blame — not the federal government, not him — for any testing problems.

He says governors aren’t using all the testing capacity that the federal government has created. It's not true.

Meanwhile, Trump denied praising China’s openness in the pandemic, when he’s on record doing so repeatedly, and declared victory over what he calls relatively low death rates in the U.S. But that’s too soon to tell.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/ap-fact-check-trumps-misdirection-on-virus-testing-deaths/ar-BB12Twhy?li=BBnb7Kz

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump's misdirection on virus testing, deaths (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2020 OP
"for shortages in coronavirus testing?" Covid-19 wasn't ID'ed until 2019 ffr Apr 2020 #1
K & R IllinoisBirdWatcher Apr 2020 #2

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1. "for shortages in coronavirus testing?" Covid-19 wasn't ID'ed until 2019
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 12:57 PM
Apr 2020

When some asshat, thumb up his ass, orange anus was occupying the White House!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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