Mitt Romney Plays Lone GOP Trump Critic, Coronavirus Edition

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After the senator broke with the president to say America’s testing record is “nothing to celebrate whatsoever,” Trump's media supporters are breaking out their anti-Romney playbook once again

beneath the caption, “Democrats Continue Torching America,” the Utah Republican went on the offensive. “Yesterday, you celebrated that we had done more tests and more tests per capita even than South Korea” Romney

during a hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Tuesday, addressing Admiralthe president’s assistant secretary for Health and Human Services. “But you ignored the fact that they accomplished theirs at the beginning of the outbreak, while we treaded water during February and March.”

Politicians, he said, will “frame data in a way that’s most positive politically,” but he chastised Giroir, a military leader, for following suit. He went on to note that the “U.S. had completed just 2,000 tests” by March 6, the same date that South Korea’s testing total had shot up to 140,000.

By now, the president’s media supporters have a well-used anti-Romney playbook. The familiar attacks surfaced again on Tuesday and Wednesday, punishment for the Republican senator stepping out of line. “Still bitter he didn’t get picked by Trump,”a former top Trump communications aide who left his role after being caught in an alleged sex scandal, but who still acts as an unofficial surrogate, referring to Romney’s onetime potential candidacy for secretary of state.

who ran against and defeated Romney, is somehow “responsible” for the country’s coronavirus woes. “Is President Obama or, by extension, President Trump—did they do something that made the likelihood of creating a vaccine less likely?” he, to which Fauci replied, “Not at all.

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