Former president Obama has been all over the news the last few days for the “leaked” audio of a phone call featuring him bashing Trump’s coronavirus response, the news about the Flynn case being dropped, and so on.
This morning, economic council director Larry Kudlow was asked about it by Clintonite George Stephanopoulos, and he gave Georgie and Barack an earful of fact-checking in response.
“With all due to respect the former president – and I really don’t want to get into a political back and forth here – I just, I don’t know what he’s talking about. I mean with all the assistance we’ve done, with all of the infrastructure that we the Trump administration, working with governors and mayors, and with congress, with respect to testing, with respect to all manner of PPE medical equipment, with respect to ventilators — you know, this President Trump, one thing that shouldn’t be lost here, he has, and it’s unusual in these emergency situations, he’s made great use of the private sector,” said Kudlow. “We have relied very heavily on the smartest people in this country.”
“Pharmaceutical companies, biotech companies, you’ve got automobile companies producing ventilators at a rapid rate, we’ve ramped up the testing, we have the world’s largest testing percentages by far,” he continued. “So I just, I don’t understand what President Obama is saying, it just sounds so darn political to me.”
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“The overall picture is we’ve created a massive health and safety infrastructure to deal with the pandemic here in the United States, and judging from the results, where there has been a flatting in the rate of growth in infection rates and mortality rates, it’s working, so we’re preparing to re-open the economy,” he said. “And when we do, I think, according to the congressional budget office and a bunch of private surveys, we’re going to see a very strong second half of the year.”