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Remenber this jackassery? (Original Post)
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Dec 2021
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Celerity
(43,545 posts)1. How to medical
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)2. Yup, and some more jackassery
The former guy figured that if nobody was getting tested for Covid, infection numbers and rates couldn't be updated, and he wouldn't look so bad. So he told one of his interminable rally audiences that he told the CDC to "slow the testing down, please." When that went over like a lead balloon, his minions came out to say that he was just joking. But he wasn't:
Link to CNN story here.
Trump now says he wasn't kidding when he told officials to slow down coronavirus testing, contradicting staff
By Maegan Vazquez, CNN
Updated 10:50 AM ET, Tue June 23, 2020
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump now says that he was not kidding when he told rallygoers over the weekend that he asked staff to slow down coronavirus testing, undercutting senior members of his own administration who said the comment was made in jest.
"I don't kid, let me just tell you, let me make it clear," Trump told a reporter on Monday, when asked again if he was kidding when he said Saturday he instructed his administration to slow down coronavirus testing.
By Maegan Vazquez, CNN
Updated 10:50 AM ET, Tue June 23, 2020
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump now says that he was not kidding when he told rallygoers over the weekend that he asked staff to slow down coronavirus testing, undercutting senior members of his own administration who said the comment was made in jest.
"I don't kid, let me just tell you, let me make it clear," Trump told a reporter on Monday, when asked again if he was kidding when he said Saturday he instructed his administration to slow down coronavirus testing.
Sneederbunk
(14,308 posts)3. When the village idiot ran the village.
Ray Bruns
(4,111 posts)4. You have to watch the whole press conference to see what a dumbshit he is.
He is responding to the comments earlier of disinfecting surfaces with bleach and UV light.
Of course, Donny Dumbshit either wasn't listening or he didn't understand the previous speaker's comments.