Donald Trump’s persistent see-no-evil posture on coronavirus testing — if you don’t look for the virus, the cases go away — defies both science and street sense.
Yet he took it a step further with a comment suggesting that testing be restrained so the pandemic doesn’t look so bad.His aides passed that off as a joke.
Trump contradicted them, saying he wasn’t kidding. Then he contradicted himself, saying he was.So it went over the past week as America’s reckoning with disease and racism navigated a fog of falsehoods and distortions from the president.
A sampling:JUST KIDDING?TRUMP: “You know testing is a double-edged sword. … Here’s the bad part. When you test to that extent, you are going to find more people, find more cases.