Admiral Brett Giroir spoke his mind Thursday about the Biden administration’s alleged lies regarding the Trump administration’s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.
Admiral Brett Giroir spoke his mind Thursday about the Biden administration's alleged lies regarding the Trump administration's rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.
President Joe Biden has falsely claimed that the Trump administration left no plan in place for vaccine distribution to Americans.
“We’re moving in the right direction, though, despite the mess we inherited from the previous administration, which left us with no real plan to vaccinate all Americans,” Biden said Thursday in a statement.
“And every time we administer another 50 million shots, I’m going to use that milestone to report to the American people on our vaccination program and our overall fight against this pandemic," he continued.
Giroir countered, taking the President to task for his claim against Trump.
"I am so tired of the continuing lies that @potus inherited a #COVID19Vaccine mess, when in fact 99% of current vaccine manufacturing and distribution is EXACTLY as planned and explicitly described by Trump Administration’s Operation Warp Speed," Giroir tweeted.
Kamala Harris previously made a similar claim, saying that the new administration was starting from scratch with vaccinations.
“There was no stockpile … of vaccines,... There was no national strategy or plan for vaccinations. We were leaving it to states and local leaders to try and figure it out. So, in many ways we’re starting from scratch on something that’s been raging for almost an entire year," Harris said in an interview with Axios.
Multiple left-wing fact checking sources have debunked these claims, including The Washington Post, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org and Dr. Anthony Fauci himself.
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