President Donald Trump had a lot to say, not to mention made several revelations, at his recent re-election rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was the first time that the re-electionist held an event since the COVID-19 pandemic started to grapple the United States.
Here, Donald Trump revealed that he intentionally called the slowdown of the coronavirus testing in the country so that there would be fewer cases. However, he now denied that he ever gave an order to slow down the examination, although he admitted that he did say that the U.S. would look better if there were fewer tests performed.
According to CNN, several White House officials stressed that Melania Trump's husband was only joking when he said that he was slowing the coronavirus testing. In an interview with CBS News, the POTUS claimed he told his people about the disadvantage of expanding the testing, but he never ordered to lower the testing levels.
He also added that they are "good at testing," as they do more tests today than any other counties in the world. This way, the public learns all the new cases. However, instead of doing 25 million tests, they opt for only 10 million.
Donald Trump explained that through this, the country would look like it was doing better with the testing but would have far fewer cases. As he asked if the network got his point, he then again stressed that the U.S. did much more than other countries. Although it made them looked bad, he believed that they were doing the right thing.
He then acknowledged what he said in Tulsa, explaining his comment was "semi tongue in cheek." He also insisted that when they did more testing, there would be more postive cases. If it were fewer, there would be fewer cases, too.
White House adviser Peter Navarro supported Donald Trump's claim, also saying that he was only "tongue in cheek" when he admitted his order to slowdown the coronavirus testing. He also told CNN's Jake Tapper that he said the right thing when he heard him claimed that the coronavirus was a made by the "Chinese Communist Party," The Guardians noted.
Navarro seemed to be sure that the Asian country created the COVID-19 pandemic, explaining that it hid the virus and sent thousands of its citizens to spread it around the world. However, he added that it remained to be seen if China did it in purpose, although he insisted that his claim was a fact.
