Disgraceful! Senator Mitt Romney Uses Dr. Fauci To Degrade President Trump (VIDEO)
The battle between “Republican” Senator Mitt Romney and President Trump continues to rage. During Dr. Fauci’s testimony before the Senate Romney used his time to hammer the President about testing and vaccines.
Below is a transcript:
SEN. MITT ROMNEY: I understand politicians are going to frame data in a way that is most positive, politically. Of course, everyone doesn’t expects that from admirals. But yesterday you celebrated that we had done more tests and more tests per capita even than South Korea. You ignored the fact that they accomplished there’s at the beginning of the outbreak, while we treaded water in February and March. And as a result, by March 6, the U.S. had completed just 2,000 tests, whereas South Korea had conducted more than 140,000 tests. Partially as a result of that, the have 256 deaths and we have almost 80,000 deaths. I find our testing record nothing to celebrate, whatsoever. The fact is their test numbers are going down, down, down, because they don’t have the type of outbreak as we have. Ours are going up, up, up, as they have to. I think that’s an important lesson for us as we think about this future.
On a separate topic, my impression is that, with regards to vaccines, where I’m critical of what we have done at testing, at vaccines we’ve done a pretty darn good job of moving ahead pretty aggressively. And yet the president said the other day that President Obama is responsible for our lack of a vaccine. Dr. Fauci, is President Obama, or by extension President Trump, did they do something that made the likelihood of creating a vaccine less likely? Are either President Trump or President Obama responsible for the fact that we don’t have a vaccine now, or in delaying it in some way?
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI: No, senator. Not at all. Certainly, President Obama nor President Trump are responsible for our not having a vaccine.
Sen. Mitt Romney: “The president said the other day that President Obama is responsible for our lack of a vaccine … are either President Trump or President Obama responsible?”
Dr. Anthony Fauci: “No, senator, not at all.” https://t.co/VaIHw2PUWT pic.twitter.com/JvYBlOdLBX
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 12, 2020
Sen. Mitt Romney criticizes the Trump administration’s progress on access to coronavirus vaccines: “I find our testing record nothing to celebrate whatsoever.” https://t.co/CSeoMFjHJ5 pic.twitter.com/fpnd3DtUrX
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 12, 2020
Transcript Courtesy of Breitbart News