The leftist math genius who thought Bloomberg had spent enough on ads to give everyone in the US a million dollars has now been caught in another failure after misquoting Trump’s earlier comments to governors in order to make him look bad:
Trump told governors this morning they are on their own:
“Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves,” Mr. Trump told the governors during the conference call, a recording of which was shared with The New York Times. https://t.co/K0sont7MBc— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) March 16, 2020
MSNBC has been known to pick up Gay’s tweets, so it’s best we correct this before Brian Williams makes it the subject of his show.
While Trump did say what she quoted him saying, he did not suggest that governors are ‘on their own’. She left out a key part of the quote in her mischaracterization: