AP FACT CHECK: Trump falsely blames governors for virus test

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AP puts President Trump's claims this weekend regarding the coronavirus pandemic under a microscope. APFactCheck

testing and declaring victory over what he calls relatively low death rates in the U.S. That’s too soon to tell.TRUMP, on governors urging wider availability of virus tests: “They don’t want to use all of the capacity that we’ve created. We have tremendous capacity. ...They know that. The governors know that. The Democrat governors know that; they’re the ones that are complaining.” — news briefing Saturday.

“We have to have something in place that is efficient and that we can rely on, and we’re not there yet,” Fauci, a member of the White House’s coronavirus task force, said Tuesday. “It’s a perilous set of circumstances trying to figure out how to make this work, and until we’ve got the testing up to speed — which has got to be part of the federal government stepping in and helping — we’re just not going to be there.”

“And I can tell you, I talk to governors on both sides of the aisle nearly every single day,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “The administration, I think, is trying to ramp up testing, and trying — they are doing some things with respect to private labs. But to try to push this off to say that the governors have plenty of testing, and they should just get to work on testing, somehow we aren’t doing our job, is just absolutely false.

THE FACTS: His suggestion that the U.S. response to the coronavirus has been better than many other countries’ because its mortality rate is “far lower” is unsupported and misleading. The only way to tell how many went uncounted early on is to do a completely different kind of testing — blood tests of the population to find how many people bear immune system antibodies to the virus, something only now starting in selected places.TRUMP: “China was supposed to catch us. ... For years, I’ve heard, ‘By 2019, China will catch us.’ There’s only one problem: Trump got elected in 2016. That was a big difference. And we were going leaps and bounds above China.

 

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Where’s the fact check article on Adam Schiff and rest of Dems and almost all media saying they had proof of Trump/Russian collusion which was false. Taking down a President elected by US citizens is a bigger story. Except to media that helped

hopeyen1 I am so glad my state and local governments are directing the COVID-19 reopening.

100% of us want you to stop airing the WH 'presser' which is nothing more than misinformation and harassment of reporters. EVERY reporter needs to support each other and walk out en masse the next time he disrespects a reporter. StopAiringTrumpNow

hopeyen1 Just printed out this article for some wiping paper. Garbage.

So you interpret inheriting a broken system to mean testing? The ability for large scale testing of any virus was not in place from any previous administration. Not specifically testing for the novel (new)coronavirus. If this is your idea of fact checking, I'll do my own.

Where is the AP on this

This is not what he said it just AP lieing take away

Trump spot on.

If Trump took charge of all the states regarding COVID-19 you would call him a dictator but because he’s not you say he’s not doing enough

Just call them lies please.

How about putting AP under a microscope

AP has its own agenda, one of which is not unifying the country during an emergency.

Trump is the Chernobyl of the US

I'm sure they are. Would they put forth the same effort if it was somebody else?

orwell4ever Quelle surprise?

All reputable news outlets should be fact checking Fox News too since they also spew lies by the minute.

Trump is now the poster child for the old saying “How you you know he is lying? ... Because his lips are moving”

🖕🍊🐷 for 🇺🇲

Talk about the size of his penis

When will you put China's and Xi's lies under any kind of scope?

😭Trump hurts my feelings. Let's criticize his every move.😭 Stopthebias APamericanpropaganda

A lot of talk from the press and government officials. But no one is doing anything to stop the murderous carrot.

APis fakenews!

Time you put China under the microscope. They caused this virus.

DanielNewman

Keep shedding light on his lies.

Please do this every day.

Why is it that states want their autonomy when deciding their citizens liberties? Yet look to the federal government for everything else

He’d likely have blamed the Hawaiian governor for not being prepared for Pearl Harbor [had Hawaii been a state back then].

The fake news microscope... what a joke.

So some States don't have ANY tests Do Tests cure COVID19? Do we need 350 Million Tests? ..700 Million to get job done? Issue looks more like Lazy Governors blaming POTUS.

“My mushroom dick is THIS big”. realDonaldTrump

I heard the governors didn't us all the testing capacity in their States.

The AP only tells half truths and calls them accurate.

It’s this big

I have zero confidence you will do this accurately or objectively, so.....

Gotta love photos of Trump inflating the size of his erect penis ...

Fact check his lying ass.

US has only 25% of global total deaths... Trump knows that he needs 51% to win.

Trump will try and blame anybody but himself, because he's not man enough to admit it was his fault.

Is he showing his actual size

Yes thank you for the fact check.trump drop the ball on coronavirus

U.S.A: the worlds petri dish

Don’t need a microscope.

Blah blah blah. Who believes anything you write re the virus when every single thing is anti Trump?

That is the size of his dick DonaldJTrumpJr

Trump exaggerating the size of his penis.

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