Trump: We’d Have Few Cases If We Didn’t Test So Much

July 4, 2020 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies

The Hill reports:

President Trump voiced frustration Saturday with rising COVID-19 case counts as both the U.S. and many states have reported new record totals in recent days.

Administration officials have blamed the surges on increased testing, but health advocates have pointed out that rates of positive tests are also increasing.

At an indoor campaign rally in Oklahoma last month, Trump suggested that the country should test less so the number of cases wouldn’t increase, a statement his press secretary later said was a joke. Trump insisted both that he was being sarcastic and that he doesn’t kid around about testing.

Cases, Cases, Cases! If we didn’t test so much and so successfully, we would have very few cases. If you test 40,000,000 people, you are going to have many cases that, without the testing (like other countries), would not show up every night on the Fake Evening News…..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 4, 2020

….In a certain way, our tremendous Testing success gives the Fake News Media all they want, CASES. In the meantime, Deaths and the all important Mortality Rate goes down. You don’t hear about that from the Fake News, and you never will. Anybody need any Ventilators???

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 4, 2020

First you said the virus is going to disappear like a miracle.

Now you’re telling America to just “live with it.”

You failed. You cannot lie your way out of this.pic.twitter.com/ZgPetztBxb

— Biden War Room (Text UNITED to 30330) (@BidenWarRoom) July 4, 2020