Mike Pence Scrambles After Google Contradicts Trump On Coronavirus Website

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Vice President Mike Pence promised “specific” clarifying information Saturday after a Google statement flatly contradicted President Donald Trump’s earlier tout that the tech giant would “quickly” have a national website up to help the public with coronavirus screening.

“We’re working 24/7 on this,” Pence told reporters at a White House news conference. “We’re going to have very specific details on the rollout of this new public-private partnership and testing at 5 o’clock tomorrow.” The “objective here is to have a website up very quickly,” he added. Pence said Google would launch a “pilot project” website Monday for “risk assessment.”

Trump’s announcement Friday in the Rose Garden apparently took Google by surprise. The company shortly afterward issued a statement from Verily — a subsidiary of Google’s parent Alphabet — that it has a site in “early development” that would be rolled out for testing in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the “hope of expanding more broadly over time.”

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Trump claimed Google had “1,700 engineers” working on the project, making “tremendous progress.”

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Verily representative Carolyn Wang described the operation to The Verge Friday as a “triage website” that was intended for health workers, not the general public, but that’s now being changed. The site was also intended to primarily be a mapping aid so users can type in their address and find the closest location for testing. It will only be able to direct people to “pilot sites” for testing in the Bay Area, though Verily hopes to expand that beyond California “over time,” she said.

As for Trump’s talk of 1,700 engineers working on the site, a Verily employee told The Daily Beast: “There’s absolutely not 1,700 engineers at Verily. I’m not even sure there are 1,700 people at Verily.” Google did note on Twitter that employees from outside Verily were “volunteering” on the project.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/mike-pence-donald-trump-google-coronavirus-website-032837724.html

[underpants]

1. It shouldn't be but this was jaw dropping to me

Trump takes a shot at Obama's rollout but Obama actually HAD a website.

That was just incredible

[procon]

2. Why lie about something that is so easily proven false?

Trump's credibility is already a rock bottom and no one believes anything he says, so why does he keep lying? It's a mental disorder. He must know that within hours (if not minutes), the major news stations are going to roll out their fact checking results and, once again, show that he lied.

Why should he care, none of his cult worshippers are watching real news networks so they'll never see Trump caught in lie after lie. Certainly Faux Noise isn't going to mention Trump's string of non-stop lies, that's their foundation for existing.

[malaise]

3. That is the part I don't get unless he expects fealty from

corporations as well as we peons.
He is a fucking lunatic.