(CNN)— In a shocking admission during his Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally on Saturday night (Sunday in Manila), US President Donald Trump said he had told o

President Trump said 'slow down the testing' about coronavirus at Tulsa rally

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2020-06-21 05:54:39

(CNN)— In a shocking admission during his Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally on Saturday night (Sunday in Manila), US President Donald Trump said he had told officials in his administration to slow down coronavirus testing because of the rising number of cases in America, and used a racist term to describe the coronavirus.

"You know testing is a double-edged sword," Trump said while complaining about press coverage of his handling of the virus. Claiming the US has now tested some 25 million people, he added: "Here's the bad part ... when you do testing to that extent, you're going to find more people; you're going to find more cases. So I said to my people, slow the testing down please."

It was a stunning revelation given that nearly 120,000 people have died in the United States from the coronavirus and medical experts have long said that testing is critical to identifying cases, tracing them and stopping the spread of the virus.

An administration official told CNN that the President was "obviously kidding." But the Biden campaign and Democratic organizations are now racing to get this comment in as many ads as possible, a Biden aide and operatives from multiple Democratic super PACs tell CNN.