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soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 09:19 AM Jul 2020

White House sidelining medical experts for 'too much focus on public health': AP reporter

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/white-house-sidelining-medical-experts-for-too-much-focus-on-public-health-ap-reporter/

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“ This is an administration that from the Oval Office itself has always viewed anyone who gets in the president’s way, even in the course of doing their job — career officials, longtime political servants — are political enemies and should be pushed aside,” Lemire said. “We’re seeing that as the president’s poll numbers continue to slip as he bet so much on the return to normalcy, the reopening of the economy, which includes the reopening schools, and they feel the CDC has been getting in the way, and the president has been listening less and less to the people there.”

That includes Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx, who have helped lead the coronavirus task force since the beginning, Lemire said.

“Dr. Fauci fell out of favor with the president some time ago, and now there’s stories that Dr. Birx has irritated the inner circle and a sense that she’s also losing her influence inside the building,” he said.

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White House sidelining medical experts for 'too much focus on public health': AP reporter (Original Post) soothsayer Jul 2020 OP
Dr. Birx is already in shithole's pocket but . . . Iliyah Jul 2020 #1
Donald Trump can't handle people MORE educated than he is.. ProudMNDemocrat Jul 2020 #2
But of course. They should be focused on Donny, the real victim of all of this. tanyev Jul 2020 #3

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
1. Dr. Birx is already in shithole's pocket but . . .
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 09:26 AM
Jul 2020

Dr. Fauci will continue to talk . . . plus medical experts around the country will continue to talk for the good of the country. Yes for the "good of the country", something the WH has NEVER embraced and apparently the republican party as well.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,786 posts)
2. Donald Trump can't handle people MORE educated than he is..
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 09:27 AM
Jul 2020

For no one can be smarter and more educated than he is it appears.

Talk about dangerous.

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