Does anyone on earth (other then Trump and his fanatic followers) think crippling the CDC in the midst of a pandemic is a good idea?
https://news.yahoo.com/hand-grasping-trump-appointees-describe-133636121.html
“,what they witnessed during the coronavirus pandemic this year in the CDC’s leadership suite on the 12-floor headquarters here shook them: Washington’s dismissal of science, the White House’s slow suffocation of the agency’s voice, the meddling in its messages and the siphoning of its budget.”
“Last week, the editor-in-chief of the CDC’s flagship weekly disease outbreak reports — once considered untouchable — told House Democrats investigating political interference in the agency’s work that she was ordered to destroy an email showing Trump appointees attempting to meddle with their publication.”
The White House insisted on reviewing — and often softening — the CDC’s closely guarded coronavirus guidance documents…
“One of Campbell’s responsibilities was helping clear the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, a widely followed and otherwise apolitical guide on infectious disease renowned in the medical community. Over the summer, political appointees at the health department repeatedly asked CDC officials to revise, delay and even scuttle drafts they thought could be viewed, by implication, as criticism of President Donald Trump.”
“Every time that the science clashed with the messaging, messaging won,” McGowan said.
Episodes of meddling sometimes turned absurd, they said. In the spring, the CDC published an app that allowed Americans to screen themselves for symptoms of COVID-19. But the Trump administration decided to develop a similar tool with Apple. White House officials then demanded that the CDC wipe its app off its website, McGowan said."
The funding the CDC did receive this year was cannibalized. Redfield told lawmakers that $300 million was steered from the CDC’s budget to a vaccine public relations campaign that recently collapsed under scrutiny from reporters and lawmakers"
This is like treason by Trump. The Number One job of the President is to protect the American people. He has not only failed, he is actually working to harm and kill Americans.
We don’t need an impeachment. We need a trial for treason. Or, at the very least, conspiracy to harm and assault Americans with an intentionally destructive attack on the institutions that help Americans, that defend Americans against disease.
