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This serves as a metaphorical example of the Mt. Everest of lies the Trumpist narrative is built on.
Trump is blaming Obama for leaving him with “broken tests” for a virus that didn’t exist. Yes, really.
An exchange with CNN’s Jim Acosta revealed just how impervious to correction the president’s falsehoods can be.
www.vox.com
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 has been using this particular “Pants on Fire” lie for weeks now, even though anyone with a basic understanding of how time works can easily see how absurd it is. The novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19 didn’t even exist until late 2019, and didn’t arrive in the US until January. So barring some sort of time travel, it was not possible for Obama to develop a test for a virus that didn’t exist until nearly three years after he left office.
It’s total nonsense, but for those not paying close attention, it perhaps sounds plausible enough. And so Trump keeps saying it again and again and again in his efforts to distract from his government’s failure to develop and mass-produce a reliable coronavirus test during a crucial period in January and February, when the virus was spreading across the country in a mostly undetected manner.*
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Not coincidentally, Trump responded to Acosta's question the same way The Following does. With bluster, more factual inaccuracies heaped upon the previous ones, and outright denial of objective truth.
That...........my friends...........is the essence of Trumpery.
Trump is blaming Obama for leaving him with “broken tests” for a virus that didn’t exist. Yes, really.
An exchange with CNN’s Jim Acosta revealed just how impervious to correction the president’s falsehoods can be.
Trump is blaming Obama for leaving him with “broken tests” for a virus that didn’t exist. Yes, really.
An exchange with CNN’s Jim Acosta revealed just how impervious to correction the president’s falsehoods can be.
www.vox.com
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 has been using this particular “Pants on Fire” lie for weeks now, even though anyone with a basic understanding of how time works can easily see how absurd it is. The novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19 didn’t even exist until late 2019, and didn’t arrive in the US until January. So barring some sort of time travel, it was not possible for Obama to develop a test for a virus that didn’t exist until nearly three years after he left office.
It’s total nonsense, but for those not paying close attention, it perhaps sounds plausible enough. And so Trump keeps saying it again and again and again in his efforts to distract from his government’s failure to develop and mass-produce a reliable coronavirus test during a crucial period in January and February, when the virus was spreading across the country in a mostly undetected manner.*
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Not coincidentally, Trump responded to Acosta's question the same way The Following does. With bluster, more factual inaccuracies heaped upon the previous ones, and outright denial of objective truth.
That...........my friends...........is the essence of Trumpery.
