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Whether you like Trump or not, it comes across as petty to jump all over him for a misstatement like this, even if it is hyperbolic. In all likelihood, some aide probably mentioned that "Google has 1700 engineers building a testing website", that stuck with him and he ran with it.

BFD, come on people. Of all the things to pick on at a time like this, we've got a lot bigger fish to fry.

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In his last two coronavirus speeches he's given out just plain wrong information somehow. They're wrong in ways its hard to believe they couldn't get right and in ways it doesn't even seem helpful to him (unless he plans to blame Google for not having something ready).

These aren't answers to live questions or anything. For some reason his prepared statements are incorrect. (In the first one he talked about goods from Europe being banned and corrected it after on Twitter)

> In his last two coronavirus speeches he's given out just plain wrong information somehow.

To be fair, he does that in every speech, regardless of topic.

And so... that means we should forgive him for it when it’s about a life or death situation?

He was known to be a liar and a charlatan when he was elected, so we clearly didn't care then. And we haven't cared enough over the last four years to effectively remove him from office, so why pretend it matters now?

Because now a LOT of people are going to die because of it.

And some of us have cared the whole time. Unfortunately it’s only the geographic distribution of who cares that matters. Not just the count or percentage.

How could it be OK for the President to repeatedly give inaccurate statements about a crisis?

He made no less than three major mistakes in his scripted Oval Office address causing greater confusion.

The leading Democratic candidate is no better. According to him, half the country has been killed by gun violence since 2007.

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