Posted on 10/17/2022 5:18:59 PM PDT by lowbridge
Trump administration aides “usurped control of CDC communications and blocked public health officials from providing accurate information about the coronavirus to the American people,” the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, led by Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn, said in a report released Monday.
In its third wide-ranging investigation on the government response to the coronavirus pandemic, Democratic officials spoke with several senior officials who were at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention including former Director Dr. Robert Redfield, who said the Trump officials blocked the department from conveying information to Americans early on in the pandemic. The subcommittee also spoke to senior officials at the US Department of Health and Human Services during the Trump administration.
The 91-page report from the subcommittee utilized interviews with officials to make the case that former President Donald Trump and his team “installed political operatives who sought to downplay the seriousness of the pandemic.”
In one instance, a senior CDC communications officer, Kate Galatas, told the subcommittee Michael Caputo, a close Trump ally who was appointed as assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, used “bully-ish behavior” that made officials at the CDC “feel threatened.”
Caputo disputed the findings in the report in an interview with CNN.“That’s false. Donald Trump hired me to communicate the seriousness of the pandemic, that’s what I was hired for, I ran a team of 400 people to do that,” Caputo said in an interview with CNN.
“(Galatas) was a problem employee who I wrote up once and I can understand why she didn’t appreciate my management style because she was very difficult to manage,” Caputo added about the comments from the CDC communications officer.
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Somebody somewhere is going to have to invent a new superlative word for supercalifraganistic expialidocious projection
Of course they did…
Commie News says so....
It was only a matter of time for them to come out and openly Blame Trump for their lies about the clot shots. COVID Fraud endgame is near.
This is a sort of Newspeak meaning of “accurate”.
Hard to usurp control of something that is totally out of control to begin with. CDC was spewing so much hokum that anything President Trump did was an improvement.
October drip, drip, drip.
Covid was Demonrat/China
Timing was too perfect.
...they are truly evil entities.
And then after Trump left, they reported the truth?
No, the CDC is still fully capable of serial prevarication in the name of “Fauxcy Science”.
Kitchen sink incoming!!!
He also kicked puppies and and and drowned kittens. Even stole candy from a baby!!! A baby, I tell you!!!
Hmmm. The CDC embarrassed themselves so badly with changing and, ultimately, wrong information that any interference with their communications likely saved lives. BTW, they work for the administration and are subject to their oversight.
What scientific information? None of this stuff was properly tested, and the only narrative that was allowed out was whatever was developed by the bureaucracy. Even when there were therapies which were effective, the bureaucracy shut it down.
The Trump Admin didn’t get much sway, there.
Nah, none of our public health agencies were allowed to
make any public statements. /s
If anything, they were trying their beast to hobble Trump,
so he couldn’t say anything.
Once again, Leftist projection rears its fugly head.
There was no such thing as accurate COVID information.
There WAS no accurate information to rely on
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