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Trump Launches Vicious Attack on Reporter For Daring to Ask About Jared, ‘You Should Be Ashamed of Yourself!’
Donald Trump is holding another press briefing today, and thus far the president is sounding very hoarse.
Trump started off yesterday’s briefing by encouraging Americans to stay home for the next 30 days in order to flatten the curve and save lives, adding that they have made “a lot of progress” on a vaccine.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin later claimed Americans can “call any FDIC bank” regarding the small business loan program, but MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle fact checked the statement and said “That’s absolutely not true.”
Trump then railed against “endless partisan investigations” of his administration amid the outbreak, labeling them “a witch hunt after witch hunt after witch hunt.”
First son-in-law and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner also spoke during the briefing, and received criticism for calling the federal stockpile of medical supplies “our stockpile,” adding, “it’s not supposed to be states stockpiles that they then use.”
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Today Trump announced that the CDC is recommending that everyone wear face coverings to help stop the spread of coronavirus, but then said he probably wouldn’t be following the guidelines.
Trump announces the CDC is now recommending people wear face coverings to stop spread of coronavirus, but then immediately says "I don't think I'm going to be doing it." pic.twitter.com/GRDLrNNJMD
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 3, 2020
UGH, Trump is the worst. I know he is trying to be reassuring here, as he is reading from prepared remarks that someone else wrote, but it just comes off as disingenuous.
TRUMP: "Stay at home. This is ending. This will end. You'll see some bad things, and then you're gonna see some really good things … we're getting better. We're getting better very quickly. This was artificially induced." pic.twitter.com/I8CNY92B7a
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 3, 2020
Then then attacked CNN’s Jim Acosta for asking why Dr. Fauci didn’t attend today’s briefing. Typical mean Trump.
Trump says he doesn't know where Dr. Fauci is and then attacks @Acosta for asking him about his whereabouts in the first place pic.twitter.com/WWvw2KYPUy
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 3, 2020
Trump then blamed Obama for not having the proper supplies, even though Trump has been president for over three years.
ACOSTA: Why don't we have enough masks or equipment?
TRUMP: "Previous administrations gave us very little ammunition for the military and very little shelf space."
(Trump was president for 3 years before the coronavirus hit.) pic.twitter.com/vuugvWItYR
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 3, 2020
Then reporter Weijia Jiang asked the question we all wanted the answer to…what did Jared Kushner mean when he said federal stockpiles are not for states, and Trump LOST IT:
The President makes an ass out of himself trying to defend Kushner’s stockpile statement from yesterday pic.twitter.com/fyMey49nFa
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) April 3, 2020
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