By Daniel Dale, Tara Subramaniam, Em Steck and Liz Stark, CNN
Updated 3:12 AM ET, Tue April 21, 2020
Washington (CNN)A reporter reminded President Donald Trump that he held campaign rallies in February and March. He responded by suggesting he didn’t recall these rallies — and saying that hasn’t left the White House in “months” except for a coronavirus-related trip to Virginia in late March.
Trump’s laughably obvious false claim about his travels was one of several false claims at his White House coronavirus briefing on Monday.
Though numerous Republicans and independent experts have emphasized the importance of a major increase in coronavirus testing, Trump claimed that talk about testing is “not bipartisan” and is happening to try to damage him politically. He also repeated his usual inaccurate claim that he had banned travel from China and Europe, his usual exaggerated figure for the past US trade deficit with China and his usual erroneous description of a comment from President Barack Obama about manufacturing jobs.
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