President Donald Trump’s latest coronavirus press conference on Saturday afternoon was littered with false claims about both the pandemic crisis and various unrelated matters Trump decided to talk about, from North Korea and Iran to Chinese tariffs.
Trump continued to be dishonest on the critical subject of coronavirus testing, wrongly claiming he “inherited” faulty tests — they were developed this year, during his presidency — and painting an overly rosy picture of the US testing situation.
He also repeated several of the false claims he likes to make at his campaign rallies.
It’s hard to know where to begin fact checking.
President Donald Trump’s latest coronavirus press conference on Saturday afternoon was littered with false claims about both the pandemic crisis and various unrelated matters Trump decided to talk about, from North Korea and Iran to Chinese tariffs.
Trump continued to be dishonest on the critical subject of coronavirus testing, wrongly claiming he “inherited” faulty tests — they were developed this year, during his presidency — and painting an overly rosy picture of the US testing situation.
He also repeated several of the false claims he likes to make at his campaign rallies.
A rundown of the claims and the facts at https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/18/politics/fact-check-coronavirus-briefing-april-18/index.html
Trump Blows Up at CNN Reporter Grilling Him for Self-Praise After More Than 40,000 Coronavirus Deaths [article includes video and transcript] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/19/trump_rips_cnn_reporter_at_briefing_you_dont_have_the_brains_you_were_born_with.html
CNN’s Dana Bash says President Donald Trump treats female reporters differently than he treats male reporters. Trump lashed out at Weijia Jiang of CBS News during a tense exchange at the daily coronavirus task force briefing. https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/04/19/dana-bash-female-reporters-trump-briefing-tsr-vpx.cnn
(April 19): At Sunday’s White House coronavirus task force briefing, CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang asked President Trump why he waited so long to warn people that the virus was spreading like wildfire instead of holding political rallies with thousands of people. [includes video and transcript] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/19/reporter_vs_trump_why_didnt_you_warn_people_virus_was_spreading_like_wildfire_instead_of_holding_rallies.html
“The 52 most off-the-wall lines from Donald Trump’s Sunday night coronavirus briefing” https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/20/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-task-force-sunday/index.html