Trump blocks national testing program -- why? Because tests make us "look bad"

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Amid Trump's flagrant lies, a truth comes out: He's never wanted "all this testing" because he fears the optics

Dan Froomkin
May 8, 2020 11:00AM (UTC)

The single most disastrous element of the failed federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic is Donald Trump's continued refusal to launch a massive federal effort to develop the capacity to test more Americans for the virus.

Without magnitudes more testing, public health experts agree, reopening the country amounts to a death sentence for countless Americans, particularly the less affluent. And only the federal government is capable of doing what's required.

On Wednesday, Trump explained himself with an extraordinarily revealing quote — one that included both a lie and a confession. "In a way, by doing all this testing we make ourselves look bad," Trump told reporters on Wednesday, It was a lie because the number of tests administered in the U.S. — currently about 7 million — is tiny compared to the actual need.

It was a confession because Trump was acknowledging what many of us have perceived all along: He sees testing as a matter of his own political health rather than an urgent question of public health.

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https://www.salon.com/2020/05/08/trump-blocks-national-testing-program--why-because-tests-make-us-look-bad/

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1. Proudly killing more Americans.

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2. EVERYTHING about the Cretin has made US look bad for over 3 years. n/t

[A HERETIC I AM]

3. I've said this before, but he is playing a part in a TV show he is writing...

Producing, editing and starring in. It’s all about how it looks to HIM

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4. War Criminal President in action, what more evidence do you need?