Fact check: Trump falsely claims he 'inherited' the faulty coronavirus test. It was developed this year

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Fact check: President Trump has falsely claimed four times since last week that he inherited a faulty coronavirus test — which was, in reality, developed this year

In March, Trump initially made a debatable claim that he had inherited a flawed testing"system." By the final days of March and the first days of April, however, he was making a demonstrably inaccurate claim about inheriting the actual tests. Read MoreTrump's clear suggestion was that the flawed test had been left to him by President Barack Obama's administration.

Fact check: Trump misleads on coronavirus testing 01:52Soon after that, there were reports that some of the test kits were not working properly. The CDC -- which has been led since 2018 by Dr. Robert Redfield, a Trump administration appointee -- admitted the problem on February 12. It announced on February 28 that it had manufactured brand new, functional test kits that addressed the problem, which had been caused by a flaw in one of the three components of the original test.

 

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Idiot

It's almost like he's lying.... TyphoidTrump

Omg! You guys do this deliberately or just ignorant, i do not know. He said 'the process of approving test kits is not proper, or inherited improper methodology' His grammar may be bad, but still people get him, why not you!

Obama did it? LOL. idiotpresident

That’s not what he claimed.

we need the money mr. President could you please help us we are starving mr. President we have no food mr. President and I know you're a good president

I am curious as 2 how the media can b fake news when it's all on video & you can c & hear it 4 yourself. I am also wondering how they got 1000's of employees from all over the world 2 cooperate. Where do they hold their meetings? Who caters? Use your PC research if u think false

GovHowardDean Are you surprised that Trump lies? Are you surprised he blames Obama for something that didn't exist when Obama was president over 3 years ago? Stop carrying the lie fests on

GovHowardDean They’re called LIES. Say it with me.

Can we just vote this disgusting orange troll out of office EARLY, please

Commander of confusion lying as usual!!

Daggg People!! He's a Liar!! EVERYDAY he's a Liar..He's Untrustworthy He has been Impeached For Trying to Extort a Foreign Government, Now HE has Put America in THIS POSITION Because of his SelfServing Arrogance foxheadlines SenateFloor

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WhiskeyMD247365 Stop giving him free air time to spread his lies and disinformation!

Because lies prevail among his supporters and enablers. Years from now history will be arguing which documentary is true. The one full of the GOP lies or the one full of actual historical truths.

That's not what he said he said he inherited a failed system that CDC only did the testing God you guys keep lying.

Why the hell would there be a test for this coronavirus from the Obama administration when COVID-19 didn’t come around until 2019?! It’s a completely different virus which is why none of us have the antibodies for it?

jaketapper

Why do you still call yourself a news organization? You gave that up a long time ago. You’re nothing more than the propaganda wing of the Democrat Party. Your “news” stories are nothing more than an opposition mud slinging campaign.

He was referring to the testing system which relied on County Health Boards used commonly in Flu surveillance. You know this but this is why your network is imploding FakeNewsCNN

Blame blame blame. Sorry u are it the big responsible person in this mess and believe me Americans and the world will not forget it. We will never forget how many thousands die because of Donald J Trumps lack of action. No strategy no plan

He does nothing but lie

Dr. Brinx said the test were showing false positives, so the test were faulty! She said this from day 1!

Fact Check: it’s all improving now, The President has once again guided the nation soundly through, and he will get re-elected 🇺🇸

It's never his fault and always someone else.Trump is in his complete psychotic mind believes he's infallible. November can't be here any sooner.

jaketapper Yeah yeah, a wonderful twitter point. Why not confront that con-man in real time with this?!?!

Vote this idiot out office!! He is a murder

So there was not a test at all, yet that was his fault? It came into being during his waych and still not his accomplishment? Which is it, your news coverage seems more propaganda than news.

Trump is incapable of accepting responsibility when things go wrong for him. It is never his fault. He has never made a mistake, and everything he does is better than anyone on earth.

Fact check - Zucker and CNN partisan hacks are the Propaganda arm of the Democratic Party.

Man child!

You need to use the word liar when Trump lies. He's not misrepresenting, He's not falsely claiming, He's openly lying, he's a homicidal liar.

Fake news .he inherited an antiquated system that was unable to provide massive testing.

jaketapper Stop talking about inheriting things from the previous administration! We have an election coming up and you have been in the office for three plus years!

jaketapper Facts First... 😂

It's CNN. We all know they tell lies.

Great reason to STOP AIRING HIS DAILY MAGA RALLIES!!!!

Yet another LIE to try and shift blame. Pos

He loves to throw blame for his incompetence. Please resign

I sure hope that a reporter will bring this up at today’s propaganda party. John King .”The Obama administration could not have developed a test for a virus that did not exist at the time.” whpresscorps

That’s a lie CNN he has said he has inherent a fuxked up pandemic response system.

Obama bin laden his tests were all f***** up our great president fixed it

Trump is a liar. He himself has no integrity, and he has made the United States dishonest in participating in international affairs.

The U.S. is really lucky they have such an honest, selfless and intelligent President. I wish he would take some time for himself. He deserves it... ZahbiaWazirgul

Trump is lying to the american people the whole time. Other countreys lying about the corona victims? What a joke. He self said he is a cheerleader for America. And that he left critical informatie behind because he didnt want to scare people. His own words have let people died😱

When reporters take over the world angels will sing in heaven.

No credibility. Zero!

Can CNN also fact check JoeBiden, from what I know realDonaldTrump was fact checked from the time he was an aspirant. DOUBLE STANDARDS!

jaketapper Lie,Lie,Lie Trump You Really Love Spinning Your Dialogue,To Attempt To Look Good In The Eyes Of Your Little Flock!You Are Doing A Fine Job Of Making A Bigger Mess And Blaming Everyone Else But Your Administration!You Are A Sad Sad Little Man!

He is the dumbest POTUS in American history

jaketapper Then should stop promoting his lies by carrying his daily briefing on tv. That can be summarized in highlights.

FAKENEWSCNN

He is the biggest liar in the land

Why does CNN lie so FN much

China sent faulty test kits and masks globally and countries caught them out, China will be sued by all. Fact

Ask Dr Fauci at next Press call.

TRUMP 2020 !!!!!!!

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He is a babbling fool

When are the reporters going to press Trump harder at these briefing rallies, if they aren’t then no point being there...

How i wish he will visit the hospital and see what we go through every single day.

Kokomothegreat Please do not run his rallies live. Fact check them first.

Apparently Trump did inherit a faulty brain make up. Beyond that limitation, the choices he does or doesn’t make are all on his scorecard.

He is like a desperate 6 year old trying to blame everyone for something he has done. He is a pathetic low life

CNN a fact checker bahahaha.

Maybe that a part his statement is false. What if in fact there were no masks available at all ( should there have been any)!!!

jaketapper Lies FakeNews

reghud LIAR

What does Trump smoke? Must he make passing the buck to Obama regime the cornerstone of his leadership? In any case, Obama cleared 2 solid terms, clearing this first term has been bumpy. Sort out your govt, you are President and CinC. He seems clueless....

What’s up

jaketapper “Never to admit a fault or wrong; never to accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time; blame that enemy for everything that goes wrong; take advantage of every opportunity to raise a political whirlwind” Henry Murray towards Hitler but it works for realDonaldTrump COVID19

I’ll rather fact check CNN propaganda machine working overtime to sabotage this President. Very soon many would see for what you truly are.

As usual..confirming what a complete idiot he is..bla bla...whats next

jaketapper Jake, CNN. this tells voters i work for Democrats. Facts: CNN's most watched program was The Lead with Jake Tapper, averaging 1.4 million viewers and coming in 22nd PLACE. This is what yr bash President during a crisis gets. 22cd place. IF YR IN 22CD, NO TELLING WHERE OTHERS ARE.

Lol thats a reach.

FU CNN, Story should be thanks Trump for fixing a broken system, cutting through BS red tape and getting new covid test out so fast.

Blame. Blame. Blame. Blame. He is No Leader and a disgrace to the Office.

Trump’s children and grand children will suffer for the things he done and say about other people and countries. For people will remember the hardships they suffer due to his racist and prejudice remarks to the rest of the world when Trump WAS President of the USA.

has ZERO Credibility to pretend to be a non partisan fact checker ! May I remind you of just a few of their doozies: - 3 Yr lie TrumpRussiaCollusion 24/7 - CovingtonBoys racist punks - Teenage serial rapist Judge Kavanaugh

USA has reported approx 367,000 cases with 11,000 deaths Here is the timeline of the novel coronavirus 2020 in the US COVID19 CoronaOutbreak

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DISMISSED!

.....and it’s faulty. Thanks CNN for your astute observation and reporting....

Trump=großmaul=Mafiosi

He’s preaching to his cult. They will believe him.

JoeBiden This site is political commentary and parody of Joe Biden's Presidential campaign website.

He couldn’t have inherited a coronavirus test anyways because the coronavirus is a new virus. The test would have recently been developed. Unfortunately a lot of people don’t think logically & will believe what he says.

We were stuck with the cheap Chinese garbage TPP negotiations gave us. Pftht, Burn, Booya... 🤟

jaketapper Fact check: CNNisFakeNews

just say lies

Orange man bad. Rinse and repeat.

Trump is the dumbest human on earth

Please convince those who drank his koolaid

Mr. President, this is embarrassing

President Trump has falsely claimed... that's it. That's the beginning of every sentence involving Trump.

Yeah yeah yeah blah blah blah

Hey falsely claimed = lied. Stop with the euphemisms, pls

Lol.. that’s h boy he is in trouble

CNN has fact LOL

Only damned fools believe anything that comes out of LiarInChief trump's noxious cake hole.

WELL WE ALREADY KNEW THAT SMARTS WERE NOT PART OF HIS QUALITIES

Looking at recent posts, CNN going full throttle against trump since stats show pandemic easing. They’re in a panic

We have boycotted your station during the trumppressbriefing - stop airing this crap

So he inherited no test.....even worse than a faulty one

CNN = Chinese News Network

Trump2020NowMoreThanEver

It's sad that this German word has no English equivalent.

FakeNewsMedia

Trump Say He Is In Control And Numbers Are Looking Good! More than 12,000 Americans now dead from coronavirus as the infection number in the US increases to over 380,000 . TrumpIsALooser TrumpVirus TrumpOwnsEveryDeath

Fact check.... Don't trust CNN's 'fact checks'

CAnt even stand watching his news conference now.CNN! Do u mind not airing his new briefing everyday? Makes me sick watching this man

That's not exactly true. Come on now.

Fact check: CNN is FakeNews

According to whom?

He lied not ‘falsely claimed’.

So, lying liar lies again. It's important to keep documenting this, because truth does matter to some of us... however much of a beating it takes from others.

Stoke the fires of hate and division during a crisis. You are very sick, wallowing you your hate. This is not news. This is only a hateful, cruel spin by the partisan democrat party media.

Fake news

Fake news cnn is fake news

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