March 13, 2020: "No, I Don't Take Responsibility at All."

 

3/13/20: A reporter asked the president on Friday if he takes any responsibility for the slow rollout of testing in this country.

 

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“No, I don’t take responsibility at all.” 

President Trump

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“No, I don’t take responsibility at all,” he replied. “Because we were given a – a set of circumstances, and we were given rules, regulations and specifications from a different time. It wasn’t meant for this kind of – an event with the kind of numbers that we’re talking about.” 

He’s only been in charge for the last 38 months. And he had a lot of important tweeting to do. (See: 3/15/20.)

 

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DR. ANTHONY S. FAUCI, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, also spoke with reporters Saturday. He was asked if he believed we had a grip on the spread of the coronavirus? “We have not reached our peak,” he admitted. “We will see more suffering and death, predominantly among the vulnerables in our society.”