Al Kipone schreef op 6 maart 2020 19:57:
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump made a rapid-fire series of false claims at a televised town hall event hosted by Fox News on Thursday in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
We counted at least 14 false claims in our first dive into the transcript, plus four claims that were lacking some important context.
The numbers might well rise as we delve deeper, but here's the preliminary list:.....
Trump repeated his claim that he had reversed an Obama-era decision that had somehow impeded testing for the coronavirus, saying, "They made some decisions which were not good decisions. We inherited decisions that they made, and that's fine ... We undid some of the regulations that were made that made it very difficult, but I'm not blaming anybody."
Facts First: There is no regulation from President Barack Obama that impeded coronavirus testing. The Obama administration did put forward a draft proposal related to lab testing, but it was never implemented. When asked what Obama administration decision Trump might be referring to, Peter Kyriacopolous, chief policy officer at the Association of Public Health Laboratories, said: "We aren't sure what rule is being referenced." Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, who was principal deputy commissioner of the FDA under Obama and is now professor of the practice at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said, "There wasn't a policy that was put into place that inhibited them. There was no Obama policy they were reversing."
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