WATCH: Trump uses positive COVID-19 test of Pence press secretary to advocate against testing

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May 8, 2020

By David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement

President Donald Trump revealed that the member of the Vice President’s staff who tested positive on Friday for coronavirus is Mike Pence’s press secretary Katie Miller. Miller happens to be the spouse of Trump’s senior advisor Stephen Miller, as CNN reports.

The President used the news to advocate against coronavirus testing, suggesting that because someone could become infected any time after being tested it might not make sense to test for the virus that has killed more than 78,000 people in America to date.

“She’s a wonderful young woman, Katie, she tested very good for a long period of time and then all of a sudden today she tested positive,” Trump said during a lunch meeting with House Republicans in the State Dining Room.

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Trump did not appear to understand that identifying those who test positive prevents the spread of the virus and allows them and others they may have infected to be quarantined. It also gives them time to get medical attention, which could be life-saving.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/watch-trump-uses-positive-covid-19-test-of-pence-press-secretary-to-advocate-against-testing/

[applegrove]

1. When Sophie Trudeau tested positive, Justin sheltered at home.

Maybe we can quarrantine Stephen Miller for 14 days?

[Jarqui]

3. I'm sure ICE could rustle up a cage for Stephen Miller .. nt

[a kennedy]

2. Come on.....tRump threw the CDC's report in a closet......

and IS it bad of me to want them to all to get sick and LEAVE the airwaves???

[LakeVermilion]

4. So we don't get to decide if we want to be tested,

Trump decides.

Nice. We are at the mercy of a despot.

[Dave Starsky]

5. Good Lord, he's a fucking idiot.

He just truly doesn't understand how ANYTHING works, does he? I have never seen a creature on two legs that was so completely fucking ignorant.

[SammyWinstonJack]

10. He claims to have a knack for this stuff. Mused that maybe he should have

been a Dr. instead of running for president.

[tanyev]

6. Hell, then why have any medical tests ever?

Because even if you test negative, you could develop something afterwards and.....oh, dear God I can’t even.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Exactly LOL

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. Geez

Talk about taking the exactly wrong f**king lesson from something.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Dumber than a sack of hammers, that one.

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