Trump lies in his attacks on Obama. Even if he was telling the truth, I don’t see how this helps solve the current crisis.
Trump attacks the Obama administration for their handling of the swine flu — as if that excuses his government's failures with respect to the coronavirus pandemic pic.twitter.com/XaChdLDQLK
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 13, 2020
Trump, bashing the Obama administration again, falsely claims that, with H1N1, "They didn't do testing like this" and that they didn't do testing until "far too late." The H1N1 testing numbers were exponentially higher.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 13, 2020
Another idiotic comment by @realDonaldTrump.
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) March 13, 2020
Trump Ties Obama to C.D.C.’s ‘Inadequate’ Testing System https://t.co/DbsfqFkgxt
1. Trump fired the pandemic response unit created by Obama after Ebola.
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) March 13, 2020
2. Trump cut CDC funding
3. During H1N1, 1 million people were tested within a month of the first diagnosis.
4. Stop Tweeting and do your job https://t.co/FnlsvzuweC
If the @BarackObama Administration made testing harder how did we manage to test 1 million people within the first month of the H1N1 outbreak? Why did you dismantle the White House office @BarackObama created in NSC post Embola? Why did you cut funding to CDC? Come on! https://t.co/hH7v31DdYj
— Valerie Jarrett (@ValerieJarrett) March 13, 2020
Trump now appears to be deliberately distorting the swine flu timeline in order to deflect criticism onto Obama. https://t.co/ra97ktiM7F
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 13, 2020
As Trump tries blaming Obama for CDC problems, let's recall:
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) March 13, 2020
-Every Trump budget has proposed cutting CDC's budget. His OMB chief still backs cutting $1.2 billion this year
-Trump's 2017 hiring freeze left 700 CDC positions vacant
(From May 2017👇) https://t.co/q5hO0g9flt
tfw you fired the whole pandemic response team proposed huge cuts to the cdc and squandered weeks of lead time before the new infection reached the country https://t.co/Gc83MDdEUa
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 13, 2020
TRUMP LIED AGAIN: PolitiFact confirms the Obama-Biden administration declared H1N1 a public health emergency BEFORE anyone in the US died, contradicting Trump’s tweet that desperately tried to deflect from his own incompetent response to the coronavirus. https://t.co/VP5cKGaD9o
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) March 13, 2020
Facts: The Obama administration tested 1 million people for H1N1 in the first month after the first US diagnosed case.
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) March 13, 2020
The first US #coronavirus case was 50+ days ago. And we haven't event tested 10,000 people yet. https://t.co/LxRH62NIDw
President Trump on Friday again claimed that his response to the coronavirus was hindered by the Obama administration, which left office 3 years ago https://t.co/3UO5wk7f8X
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) March 13, 2020
Fact checking President Trump's claim on swine flu tests
— CNN (@CNN) March 14, 2020
Facts First: Trump is wrong. The CDC did focus on testing — conducting 5,000 tests in the first month and sending out a total of 1 million tests in the first five months of the outbreak. https://t.co/Jd3eqVjmVh
Temporarily leaving aside the rest: The CDC estimate is that 12,469 people died in the US from H1N1, though “17,000” is within the estimate range. And Biden was not “in charge” like Trump has put Pence; Biden was involved but not the lead, contrary to Trump’s claims/suggestions. pic.twitter.com/o4r8qtQFjA
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 15, 2020
Sad! 