Documents reveal new details of Trump political interference in COVID-19 response

[sabra]

Source: The Hill

Top political officials in the Trump White House tried to block public health guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and to eliminate evidence of political interference into scientists' reports on the coronavirus, according to newly released documents from congressional investigators.

The latest documents from a House committee investigating the former administration's response to the pandemic shed additional light on the efforts of some of former President Trump's political appointees to blunt or even block the messages of career officials because they did not align with Trump's rosy projections.

During a press briefing on Feb. 25, 2020, former senior CDC official Nancy Messonnier warned about the coming dangers of COVID-19. She told reporters that the spread of the coronavirus was essentially inevitable.

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Her statement angered Trump, and the administration subsequently stopped granting CDC officials permission to brief the public. The agency held no briefings from early March until June, during some of the earliest and most confusing times of the pandemic.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/581322-documents-reveal-new-details-of-trump-political-interference-in-covid

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[BlueWavePsych]

1. Corona thanks you ...

[Skittles]

2. put Trump under oath for 11 hours

if Hillary can be grilled over four deaths, Trump can be grilled for over 100,000 deaths due to his incompetence

[llmart]

3. He'd fold like a wet noodle.

He's nothing but a loud-mouthed bully and bullies are always cowards.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

4. It would take less than 11 minutes

for him to incriminate himself.

[cstanleytech]

5. Incompetence implies it was not done on purpose which we all know that it was.

That imo makes the +100,000 deaths a deliberate act thus first degree murder.

[Meowmee]

6. It is over 760,000 murders due to intentional malice

[Skittles]

7. I was going by this

https://www.businessinsider.com/analysis-trump-covid-19-response-40-percent-us-deaths-avoidable-2021-2

although I would argue people continue to die because he was "president" - not masking, for example

[IbogaProject]

8. His son in law figured it would hit the blue areas

His son in law figured it would hit the blue areas and they could just run against the blue state lockdowns and rake in cash amidst the chaos. A totally stupid idea but non of his family or team were very bright. This was almost if not more serious than Jan 06.