.MaddowBlog: With bogus claim, Pres. Trump tries to blame coronavirus missteps on Obama
Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty Images fileIn the wake of a series of avoidable mistakes, Donald Trump and his team have confronted quite a bit of criticism over their handling of the coronavirus outbreak. For the most part, the president has responded by arguing that the unflattering assessments are part of a"Yesterday, however, during a White House event, Trump switched gears a bit, implicitly acknowledging the missteps, but insisting that Barack Obama deserves the blame.
In context, the president seemed to be responding to criticisms that the administration's failures to enact widespread COVID-19 testing have contributed to the escalating public-health emergency. To hear Trump tell it, rascally Obama administration officials imposed some kind of regulation, which was responsible for the failure, and which the current president's team reversed"a few days ago.
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