No Fauci for you
How can they do that?
I don’t understand how they have the authority to do that. Fauci is not an employee of Trump’s, and anyway employers don’t generally have the power to control what employees do in their own time, do they? I don’t understand what this “blocked” means.
The White House refused to allow Anthony Fauci or any of the medical experts on the coronavirus task force to appear on ABC’s “This Week,” host Jon Karl said Sunday.
But why is it a matter of the White House “allowing” any medical expert on the task force to go on a news show?
There are lines of work where you’re not allowed to share everything you know – the law, intelligence gathering, research, and so on. Doctors can’t blab patient information, and there’s doubtless a long list of items like that. But this? Just “shut up because you’ll make us look bad”? Is it really that simple? The White House can enforce it?
I suppose it can be just that they say we’ll remove you from the task force if you do, and they don’t want to be removed because they hope to be able to steer Trump in the right direction.
President Trump has previously faced criticism for silencing Fauci, and White House officials have refused to answer basic questions about President Trump’s COVID test results, as it scrambles to respond to an outbreak within its own ranks.
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The president is facing a credibility gap on the coronavirus issue. An ABC News/Washington Post poll out Sunday indicates 62% of Americans distrust what Trump says about the coronavirus, and 60% said they don’t trust the administration to provide accurate information about Trump’s health.
Sooooo the way to fix that is to silence Fauci.
They don’t think too good, do they.
“We had hoped to talk to Dr. Fauci about both the outbreak at the White House and across the country,” Karl said at the start of the show.
“He was more than willing to join us, but the White House wouldn’t allow you to hear from the nation’s leading expert on coronavirus.”
“In fact, they wouldn’t allow any of the medical experts on the president’s own coronavirus task force to appear on this show.”
Well, it’s looking as if in three weeks plus a couple of days they’ll be facing the consequences.
I’ve been saying and/or thinking some version of that at least once a day ever since someone made Trump the nominee and I was forced to notice that he exists.
Donnie has called himself “the most transparent president.” Regarding his hair, his contempt for people, what?
Maybe he’s getting kickbacks from the tell-all books he has inspired, and there are a few. Maybe he’s in negotiations with Fauci for his cut of Fauci’s inevitable book deal. Or maybe ALL politicians are just lying bastards who wouldn’t know the truth if it was wrapped in a piano that flattened them from a third floor drop. Can we test that theory? :P
I guess if no one stops you, you can do it. And it appears the bodies that have the power to stop him have no desire to stop him.
Donnie has tweeted he’s immune now and not contagious. Twitter decided to hide that under a ‘misleading’ spoiler. Heh.
I am waiting for the let-down. An awful lot of people have felt better at first, only to get sicker a week to 10 days later.
I’d expect Trump to have bullied his way to an extended supply of the drug cocktail. I really can’t see him wanting to lose the weird high he’s been on before the election’s over, and I can’t see his doctors having the nerve to tell him no. They’ll warn him of the dangers of course, but Donnie will get what Donnie wants, and what Donnie wants right now is the energy and euphoria the drugs are giving him. He ain’t gunna be like Sleepy Joe.
I don’t think his stance on drugs and alcohol will make any difference, either. He won’t equate his need for regular top-ups with the needs of the addicts he detests because he’ll see his own use as medicinal rather than recreational. It’s how a lot of addicts came to be addicts, of course, just as with Trump now, it started as purely medicinal for them, too.