If the coronavirus pandemic becomes for Donald Trump what Hurricane Katrina was for George W. Bush, we might come to look back at last Fridayâs press conference as Trumpâs âBrownie, youâre doing a heck of a jobâ moment. The presidentâs comments to reporters at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta were, as my colleague Adam Rogers has masterfully explained, riddled with bizarre and dangerous falsehoods. One stood out above the rest: Trumpâs flatly untrue claim that âanybody that wants a test can get a test.â The president was either lying about or ignorant of the central fact of the US governmentâs botched response to the disease. That alone could have been front-page news: âTrump Falsely Declares âAnybody That Wantsâ Can Get a Coronavirus Test.â
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