Otis Mayfield
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Documents released Friday reveal how in early 2020 the Trump administration downplayed the deadly danger posed by the nascent Covid-19 pandemic, silencing and sidelining top health officials who tried to warn the public and destroying evidence of political interference while issuing rosy declarations that the outbreak was "totally under control" and would soon be over.
"The Trump administration's use of the pandemic to advance political goals manifested itself most acutely in its efforts to manipulate and undermine CDC's scientific work."
The emails and transcripts—released by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis—show that as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) became aware that the highly infectious virus that causes Covid-19 was spreading rapidly, agency officials requested to hold briefings about mask guidance and other issues. Their requests were denied.
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Documents expose 'staggering pattern of political interference' in Trump's Covid response
Documents released Friday reveal how in early 2020 the Trump administration downplayed the deadly danger posed by the nascent Covid-19 pandemic, silencing and sidelining top health officials who tried to warn the public and destroying evidence of political interference while issuing rosy...www.rawstory.com
And those efforts cost a million people their lives, crashed the economy, started the supply shortages of goods, and divided the nation.
trump's sole hope of winning the 2020 election was the economy.
COVID said "fuck your economy."
So trump said to Hell with the hundreds of thousands of dead Americans, lets keep the economy open!
And the bodies piled up by the thousands.
trump was kicked out of office.
Joe saved us.