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Finally someone asks Trump a common-sense question, that caused Trump to blow a fuse …
It was a very short trip. From blatant BS — to BS on auto-pilot ...
Trump is blaming Obama for leaving him with “broken tests” for a virus that didn’t exist. Yes, really.
by Aaron Rupar, Vox.com -- Apr 30, 2020
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During a White House press availability on Thursday, CNN’s Jim Acosta asked Trump to explain how it makes sense to blame former President Barack Obama for testing problems pertaining to a virus that didn’t even exist until nearly thee years after he left office.
“The last administration left us nothing. We started off with bad, broken tests, and obsolete tests,” Trump asserted, prompting Acosta to jump in and ask: “You say ‘broken tests’ — it’s a new virus, so how could the tests be broken?”
Acosta’s question succinctly revealed the fundamental absurdity of Trump’s ongoing efforts to pin blame for coronavirus testing problems on his predecessor. Trump, however, just plowed forward with variations of the same false claim over and over again.
“We had broken tests. We had tests that were obsolete. We had tests that didn’t take care of people,” Trump insisted, before pivoting to bashing Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden for their handling of the 2009 H1N1 flu outbreak, which killed about 12,500 Americans. (As of April 30, the coronavirus has killed more than 61,000 people in the US.)
Trump never answered Acosta’s question. [...]
Could simple commonsense logic — be Donald’s Trump’s Achilles heel?
That makes him crumble to confetti — like the fake papier-mache Mis-leader he really is …
Could be.
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Reporters really need to keep asking those simple questions.