Four Pinocchios –> Trump’s bogus effort to blame Obama for sluggish coronavirus testing https://t.co/CB8hx3W3hu
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) March 6, 2020
FACT CHECK: Pres. Trump is falsely blaming the Obama administration for the slow rollout of U.S. tests for the new coronavirus—ignoring his administration’s own fumbles in responding to the health crisis and mischaracterizing Obama-era policies. https://t.co/gQfUsXAEWM
— ABC News (@ABC) March 7, 2020
Charlie Kirk and Rudy Giuliani received nearly 40,000 combined retweets since yesterday pushing a false claim about Obama and H1N1 in response to the coronavirus (with Giuliani taking the claim from Kirk). The false claim has already been debunked by multiple fact checkers. pic.twitter.com/2YqZ0RCjN8
— Alex Kaplan (@AlKapDC) March 10, 2020
Asked why the US has been slow in testing, Trump says "no," the US has done a "very good job" with testing, then repeats a vaguer version of his false claim that something done by the Obama administration slowed things down.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 10, 2020
Trump again falsely blames the Obama administration for the CDC's coronavirus test kit shortage.
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) March 10, 2020
The CDC was slow out of the gate because it developed and deployed it own tests, which didn't work. https://t.co/3dlOVHsMe9
Obama actually declared a national emergency after only 20 cases were detected. Then he poured $ into testing and treatment for Swine flu.
— Dr. Robert Fortuna (@psychdr100) March 10, 2020
The latest far-right defense of Trump's botched COVID-19 response is a lie about Obama and H1N1 https://t.co/bKKHPu8GZw
“Experts on lab testing said they were unaware of any Obama-era rule that would have hindered the administration from authorizing lab-developed tests for the coronavirus in an emergency.“- https://t.co/19lmkk5qbK
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 5, 2020
Trump blames his administration's failure to conduct testing for the coronavirus (less than 500 tests as of last Friday) on OBAMA.
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 4, 2020
This is not a joke. https://t.co/Qbu9Gc3RsN
Sad! 