FLASHBACK: Ron Klain said in 2020 that Biden would use his ‘power’ to reverse COVID-19 testing shortages
The Biden administration is currently facing massive COVID-19 testing shortages, despite White House chief of staff Ron Klain saying during the 2020 campaign that President Biden would be “fixing Trump’s testing fiasco” and using his “power” to “demand that more tests be made.”
Klain, who served as a top adviser to Biden during the 2020 campaign, slammed Trump several times in 2020 over the shortage of tests, even going as far as criticizing the former commander-in-chief for not using his presidential power to demand the U.S. economy make more tests.
“Again President Trump talks a good game about his absolute power, but the power he really has—the power to take control of the supply chain, to demand that more tests be made, to demand that more gear be made, to get that gear out,” Klain said in a 2020 ABC interview. “That’s the power President Trump’s refused to use.”
“That’s a power Joe Biden would use as president if this is still going on when he becomes president to make sure that we are testing the American people — we are making our healthcare workers safe when they treat us,” he continued.
Klain also took similar shots at Trump in a 2020 campaign video, saying, “The Biden plan starts with fixing Trump’s testing fiasco. He’d make sure that all Americans have access to regular, reliable, and free testing.” During the campaign, he posted several times on his Twitter account about the COVID-19 test shortage. – READ MORE
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