Friday March 13, 2020
Trump declares a national emergency, freeing up $50 billion for relief efforts. Pressed about the slow rate of testing (at least partly due to a desire to keep case numbers low) and his axing of the pandemic prevention office, Trump states, "I don't take responsibility at all."
Trump also says hundreds of Google engineers are working on a website that will ascertain if a person needs a test and direct them to drive thru testing centers in big box store parking lots that will return a result in 24 hours. None of this came to pass.
Couldn't find a non Twitter link but here's a Maddow show comparison of what Trump and Pence were telling people versus what the government medical experts were saying. x.com/maddow/statu...
