President Trump once again blamed the Obama administration for a slow roll-out of coronavirus tests, even though the virus only emerged late last year. Trump was questioned by CNN’s Jim Acosta.
Jim Acosta: “You say 'broken tests.' It’s a new virus. So how could the tests be broken” —
President Donald Trump: “We had a broken” —
Jim Acosta: — “when you needed a new test?”
President Donald Trump: “Jim, we had broken tests. We had tests that were obsolete. We had tests that didn’t take care of people.”
In Indiana, Vice President Mike Pence wore a face mask Thursday as he toured a General Motors plant that is now making ventilators. Pence’s about-face came two days after he violated hospital policy by refusing to wear a facial covering while meeting with doctors and COVID-19 patients during a tour of the Mayo Clinic.