Fauci: Trump Never Told Officials to Slow COVID-19 Testing
U.S. disease expert Anthony Fauci told Congress Tuesday that Donald Trump never told him or other officials to curb coronavirus testing, essentially contradicting the president who told supporters he had urged such slowdown.
"None of us have ever been told to slow down on testing," Fauci told a House panel on U.S. efforts to mitigate the pandemic, adding that "in fact we will be doing more testing" instead of less.
Trump raised alarm bells Saturday when he told a Tulsa campaign rally -- where most attendees were not wearing masks or following social distancing guidelines -- that testing is a "double-edged sword," and that he had told his experts to "slow the testing down."
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In a decisive display of his weakness, Trump has promised Lebanon's dwindling Christian minority, installed in power by a constitutional set-aside of half of parliament, that the US will revert that arrangement to the prior one whereby Christians, so-designated, receive a six-to-five advantage in parliamentary seats, allowing them to effectively govern. Crowds on the streets in Lebanon erupted in spontaneous songs of joy and thanksgiving.
