ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl was not happy and snapped at President Trump when the President pointed out the biased coverage from the mainstream media on ventilators.
According to Town Hall:
At Wednesday’s coronavirus task force briefing, President Trump sparred with ABC’s Jonathan Karl over ventilators. For weeks Karl and other White House reporters have been demanding to know how the government was going to be able to supply all the ventilators our hospitals need for the overwhelming influx of coronavirus patients. Now, when they’ve exceeded those expectations and we have a surplus of ventilators, Trump observed that the media has gone silent.
“We’re now supplying ventilators all over the world because no other country could have done what we did, and you should say that’s a great story,” Trump instructed the press corps. “Instead, you say Trump was slow – slow, we were so fast. Plus we put the ban on so much earlier when Nancy Pelosi as an example – you don’t say this. When she’s having her rally in San Francisco in Chinatown in San Francisco nobody wants to say that.”
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“So if we gave 350 [million people] a test ten times, the fake news media would say, where’s the eleventh time?” Trump said. “He didn’t do his job. Trump didn’t do his job. Because you have a lot of bad reporting out there.”
Karl shouted, “that’s not true!” a few times.
Trump said to Karl: “you are one of the leaders of bad reporting.”
Mic Drop.
.@foxandfriends We now have many Ventilators to spare. Thank you to all! https://t.co/brNmQKZ1FL
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 23, 2020
President Trump has made a valid point that the media works judiciously to hide or distort any of the positive news surrounding the coronavirus response.
