Task Force Admiral Calls Out CNN’s Tapper for LYING About COVID Testing

Nicholas Fondacaro | July 26, 2020
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During a Sunday interview with the Coronavirus Task Force’s Admiral Brett Giroir, MD, CNN’s State of the Union host and political activist (not a journalist) Jake Tapper assailed the Admiral with conspiratorial accusations of withholding information and not pushing President Trump, lies about testing, and claims his guest “spent this entire interview talking about how great and perfect everything is.” But Admiral Giroir was having none on Tapper’s shrill nonsense and called him out for lying.

Early in the interview, Tapper asked Giroir a fair enough question: “Are you happy where testing is right now?” “I'm never going to be happy until we have this under control and we're going to continue to push every single day to improve the testing, the type of testing that we have, and the rapidity of turnaround,” the Admiral answered earnestly.

But while Giroir was explaining where they’re putting resources to grow testing capacity, Tapper rudely interrupted his guest because of “audio problems.” And while Tapper was getting it sorted out, meaning he still couldn’t hear, he pressed Giroir on “why is the Trump administration not doing everything it can to get testing where it needs to be,” in terms of “not fully activated all of the labs available. Including hospital labs, commercial nonclinical labs, academic labs, veterinary labs.”

It was a lie and the Admiral called him out on it.

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