Jake Tapper grills Dr. Birx for 'generous approach' to Trump's bleach injection idea

[turbinetree]

Published 4 mins ago on April 26, 2020By David Edwards


White House coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx on Sunday downplayed President Donald Trump’s suggestion that sunlight or disinfectant could be injected into people who have the COVID-19 virus.

During an interview on CNN, host Jake Tapper asked about the dangerous remarks that the president made at a press briefing on Thursday.

“What should the American people know about disinfectants and the human body?” Tapper said.

“Well, first,” Birx began. “That was a dialog he was having between the DHS scientists and himself for information he had received and he was discussing. When he turned to me, I made it clear and he understood it was not as a treatment.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/doesnt-that-bother-you-jake-tapper-grills-dr-birx-for-generous-approach-to-trumps-bleach-injection-idea/

A fucking dialoge ............and the sky is pink...............trying to start the bullshit ..............and cover-up a raving lunatic , that is only worried about himself.....................fuck you........maybe the asshole should resign................ever think of that Birx...

[DURHAM D]

1. Colonel Birx is retired military.

She thinks it is her sworn duty to support her CIC.

F her.

[2naSalit]

2. +1

The indoctrination went to the core with her.

[Chainfire]

3. I think that she enjoys her position

too much.

She should go back to her military background; "no guts, no glory." Someone needs to have the courage to stand up and tell the truth and face the consequences.

She will always be remembered as another rotten cog in the Trump machine.

[bluestarone]

4. Total answer is

She's just another tRUMPY!

[earthside]

5. Birx is done.

'Everything Trump touches dies.'

[Skidmore]

6. She got Trump's message

out that he wants the media to move on and ignore his incompetence.

[brush]

7. Sad. With all her credentials she's become a Potemkin villager.

[atreides1]

8. She's in good company

Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, Dr. Drew...and now Dr. Birx...

[Walleye]

9. She looks like she has aged 10 years in the last month.

[Pachamama]

10. She has lost credibility and I honestly worry about how much truthful information we are given

She may have had a distinguished career - but that was then and this is now and she is flat out lying and covering for a very dangerous man at a very dangerous time.

[Goodheart]

11. "When he turned to me I made it clear and he understood that it was not as a (active?) treatment".

Did I miss this part? All I remember is her awkward unhappy reaction at the suggestion.

Is she lying?

[Guilded Lilly]

12. She's certainly injected the "kool-aid". n/t

[cp]

13. Zero trust

Bye bye Birx.

[malaise]

14. Just heard someone on AMJoy refer to her as Scarf lady?

[EarthFirst]

15. So first he misspoke; then it was sarcasm; now it was a dialogue?

JFC!

Get it together!

He’s been giving wack a doodle medical advice since Day One.

When do we address THAT?

[uponit7771]

17. +1, She is the queen of deflection, she's better than "Bowling Green Massacre" Kelly Ann at not ...

... answering questions.

[LAS14]

16. I disagree. I think Tom Rinaldo said it reallly well. I'm...

reproducing his whole post here.

My best spin for Birx
Well, for starters, she is an actual scientist so she doesn't spout babble and total lies that directly contradict the real science and known evidence. OK, that's a fairly low bar for someone who works in public health, but some times she does actually communicate facts. Maybe of greater significance, she has now positioned herself to retain credibility not so much with folks like us here, but with Trumpster FOX viewer types, and that matters because there are tens of millions of them. And my body will not politically differentiate between potentially getting infected from exposure, directly or indirectly, to an environmental activist Covid-19 carrier rather than from a Trump loving gun hugging racist Covid-19 carreir. Either way my life will be equally at risk. So someone has to be able to make the case to Fox viewers that the threat from Covid-19 is real and exists now in real time, regardless of how she may fudge about the future, without them muting the volume when they see someone with actual knowledge about the virus talking on their screen.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213350340

[Steelrolled]

18. Not interested in what Dr Birx has to say about this.

Waste of time.

[dalton99a]

19. Her gaslighting skills are way up there. Her future is bright indeed

[Glimmer of Hope]

20. So much eye blinking there.