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Psaki refuses to praise Trump's role in vaccine-distribution plan: 'I don't think anyone deserves credit when half a million peo

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on March 4. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Jen Psaki on Thursday refused to praise the Trump administration for its vaccine rollout. "I don't think anyone deserves credit when half a million people" in the US have died, she said. Biden said this week that there would be enough vaccines for every American adult by the end of May. Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories. White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday refused to praise the Trump administration for its vaccine-distribution efforts before President Joe Biden took office."I don't think anyone deserves credit when half a million people in the country have died of this pandemic," Psaki told reporters after she was asked whether the Trump administration should receive any acclaim for its vaccine rollout.Psaki said that when Biden became president, there were shortages of vaccines, vaccinators, and distribution locations that would be required to get the COVID-19 pandemic under control."There's no question, and all data points to the fact that there were not enough of any of those things when he took office," Psaki added.Psaki's comments on Thursday echoed previous statements from Biden, who has called former President Donald Trump's handling of the public-health crisis "even more dire" than he had anticipated.

 

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