President Trump used Sunday's White House briefing to repeat some of his favorite false claims about the coronavirus crisis and to make some new ones.
Trump falsely claimed, again, that he"inherited" a defective coronavirus test; the faulty test was developed this year. He falsely claimed, again, that"nobody ever thought" there would be a crisis like this; there were years of warnings. And he falsely claimed, again, that his travel restrictions on China and Europe, for which he exempted large groups of travelers, amounted to a complete"ban.
Travel restrictionsThe President responded to questions regarding criticism of his administration's slow response to the coronavirus by touting travel restrictions he announced at the end of January and in mid-March. In a heated exchange with CBS News White House Correspondent Weijia Jiang, Trump said"I did a ban, where I'm closing up the entire country.
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