Post by sharksrog on Dec 18, 2021 16:35:18 GMT -5
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration engaged in “deliberate efforts” to undermine the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic for political purposes, a congressional report released Friday concludes.
The report, prepared by the House select subcommittee investigating the nation’s Covid response, says the White House repeatedly overruled public health and testing guidance by the nation’s top infectious disease experts and silenced officials in order to promote then-President Donald Trump's political agenda.
In August of last year, for example, Trump hosted a White House meeting with people who promoted a herd immunity strategy pushed by White House special adviser Dr. Scott Atlas. The subcommittee obtained an email sent ahead of that meeting in which Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House Covid response coordinator, told the vice president’s chief of staff, Marc Short, that it was “a fringe group without grounding in epidemics, public health or on the ground common sense experience.” Birx also said in the email that she could “go out of town or whatever gives the WH cover” on the day of the meeting.
A few months later in October, National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins called for “a quick and devastating published take down” of the herd immunity strategy, according to emails obtained and released by the subcommittee.
In an interview with the subcommittee, Birx said when she arrived to the White House in March 2020 — more than a month after the U.S. declared a public health emergency — she learned that federal officials had not yet contacted some of the largest U.S. companies that could supply Covid testing.
Birx also told the panel that Atlas and other Trump officials “purposely weakened CDC’s coronavirus testing guidance in August 2020 to obscure how rapidly the virus was spreading across the country,” the report said.
Trump has killed more Americans than anyone in history -- except perhaps Jefferson Davis.
As Matt said, though, he doesn't like Trump, but look at what he's done for us. The sad thing is that when one looks at what Trump has done to Americans, it's darn near worse than he is.
Not disconcerting it is though that he is trying to subvert the congressional investigation into January 6th and that his minions are either taking the 5th refusing to testify despite threat of contempt citations. Have we ever known of a case where someone who hadn't been charged took the fifth if he was innocent? I can't think of ANYTHING I would have to take the fifth to hide. But it's common with Trump's minnions. The guy who just took the fifth, Roger Stone -- a smudge on my name -- was already convicted and then pardoned by Trump. Guys like Trump surround themselves with ... guys like Trump, who don't worry about breaking the law.
Trump portrayed himself as a defender of law and order. Yet he felt he was above the law. How can you call yourself a law and order president, then tell people in the White House to break laws and if they get arrested, he'll pardon them? Those who voted for Trump should re-examine their morals. What really irks me is Christians who voted for the devil incarnate.
The report, prepared by the House select subcommittee investigating the nation’s Covid response, says the White House repeatedly overruled public health and testing guidance by the nation’s top infectious disease experts and silenced officials in order to promote then-President Donald Trump's political agenda.
In August of last year, for example, Trump hosted a White House meeting with people who promoted a herd immunity strategy pushed by White House special adviser Dr. Scott Atlas. The subcommittee obtained an email sent ahead of that meeting in which Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House Covid response coordinator, told the vice president’s chief of staff, Marc Short, that it was “a fringe group without grounding in epidemics, public health or on the ground common sense experience.” Birx also said in the email that she could “go out of town or whatever gives the WH cover” on the day of the meeting.
A few months later in October, National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins called for “a quick and devastating published take down” of the herd immunity strategy, according to emails obtained and released by the subcommittee.
In an interview with the subcommittee, Birx said when she arrived to the White House in March 2020 — more than a month after the U.S. declared a public health emergency — she learned that federal officials had not yet contacted some of the largest U.S. companies that could supply Covid testing.
Birx also told the panel that Atlas and other Trump officials “purposely weakened CDC’s coronavirus testing guidance in August 2020 to obscure how rapidly the virus was spreading across the country,” the report said.
Trump has killed more Americans than anyone in history -- except perhaps Jefferson Davis.
As Matt said, though, he doesn't like Trump, but look at what he's done for us. The sad thing is that when one looks at what Trump has done to Americans, it's darn near worse than he is.
Not disconcerting it is though that he is trying to subvert the congressional investigation into January 6th and that his minions are either taking the 5th refusing to testify despite threat of contempt citations. Have we ever known of a case where someone who hadn't been charged took the fifth if he was innocent? I can't think of ANYTHING I would have to take the fifth to hide. But it's common with Trump's minnions. The guy who just took the fifth, Roger Stone -- a smudge on my name -- was already convicted and then pardoned by Trump. Guys like Trump surround themselves with ... guys like Trump, who don't worry about breaking the law.
Trump portrayed himself as a defender of law and order. Yet he felt he was above the law. How can you call yourself a law and order president, then tell people in the White House to break laws and if they get arrested, he'll pardon them? Those who voted for Trump should re-examine their morals. What really irks me is Christians who voted for the devil incarnate.