Former Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer accused President Trump of engaging in a cover-up to minimize the damage of the coronavirus.
Boxer, who served as a California senator from 1993 to2017, appeared on CNN Saturday afternoon where she claimed that the president’s response to the pandemic, specifically regarding testing, “will go down as a huge scandal” despite admitting that she doesn’t “know all the details about it.”
She explained that her basis for alleging a scandal was based on the country’s lack of medical equipment. Boxer also claimed that the president tried downplaying the pandemic to stabilize the market.
“We’re the cutting edge of science. We’re on the cutting edge of technology. We have Silicon Valley. We have all the universities, and somehow, somehow in this great country, we couldn’t get enough good tests,” she argued. “Something is wrong there with the federal government. I’ve never seen anything like it. We were late to the game.”
Boxer continued, “I think Trump was more interested in kind of covering the whole thing up so the market wouldn’t crash, and now, we have a market that crashes on a daily basis some days, and we hope it’s going to get better, and we have the spread of this virus. So, I think, if you don’t have the tests, it’s like walking around with a blindfold, and that’s the problem.”
The stock market has taken a massive hit this week as the pandemic continues. U.S. stocks closed on Wednesday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing nearly all gains since Trump was inaugurated into the White House.
Just under 300,000 people have tested positive for the virus globally, which has resulted in nearly 13,000 deaths, while more than 90,000 people have recovered from the virus, according to Johns Hopkins University.
