"H.H.S. backs Trump reelection, blocks C.D.C. science expertise - C.D.C. Testing Guidance Was Published Against Scientists’ Objections "hookrider, C.D.C. Now Says People Without Covid-19 Symptoms Do Not Need Testing "cdc-quietly-changes-testing-guidelines: IMO, Trump doesn't like the numbers so high from testing. So change the guidelines so he can say the numbers went down. Then he can say he is doing a great job!!! Like all things Trump it's lies & bull shit!!!" P - Trump history suggests you likely are right. It sounds almost criminally negligent to me. Potentially, at least.""
Trump in every way has proven himself a dishonorable man. A man not to be trusted. Still, McCarthy trusts Trump's word over Redfield's. Meadows trusts Trump too. Sen. Lamar Alexander takes a position worthy of any human weasel.
Undermining all who anger, oppose, or disagree with Trump has been a successful tactic for him so far, but you can't fool enough of the electorate to have you reelected. Or, you shouldn't be able to.
“If I just take the words of the CDC and the president, the president is right,” said Kevin McCarthy.
President Donald Trump listens to CDC Director Robert Redfield during an April 8, 2020, coronavirus briefing at the White House. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo
By QUINT FORGEY 09/17/2020 01:28 PM EDT
President Donald Trump’s congressional allies and White House aides backed his rebuke of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield on Thursday, insisting they trusted the president over the nation’s top public health official on matters of face masks and vaccine development.
“If I were a betting man, I’d bet on President Trump,” White House chief of staff Mark Meadows added in an interview .. https://video.foxnews.com/v/6191734881001#sp=show-clips .. on Fox News — saying his conclusion was “based on what I know behind the scenes [and] how quickly we are moving on the clinical trials.”
“I respect Dr. Redfield,” Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chair of the Senate’s health committee, told reporters. But he declined to answer whether Americans should have confidence in the federal pandemic response when the president is undermining the CDC director and offering conflicting information.
Redfield also predicted that while a vaccine could become available by November or December, it would likely not be “generally available to the American public” until the late second quarter or early third quarter of next year.
At a White House news briefing hours later, Trump took issue with both statements by Redfield, contending the CDC chief had “made a mistake” and that the “mask is not as important as the vaccine.”
Trump similarly dismissed Redfield’s vaccination timeline as “just incorrect information” and claimed there would be a “much faster distribution process” for the forthcoming vaccine — even telling reporters that his administration plans to distribute as many as 100 million doses by the end of the year.
Asked Thursday whether Trump’s or Redfield’s remarks were accurate, the president’s most senior aide sided with his boss.
Meadows said he anticipated the administration would “at least have some results” regarding a vaccine as soon as October, and that Trump was “pushing very hard to make sure that we’re delivering a vaccine before the end of the year.”
“So I’m not sure where Dr. Redfield got his particular timetable,” Meadows said, “but it’s not based on those that are closest to the process.”
Meadows also pushed back against Redfield’s comments on masks, arguing that face coverings alone would not return the U.S. economy to normalcy.
[They misrepresent the words of everyone who disagrees with the president. Redfield message was more that wearing a mask would help to stop the spread of the virus earlier than any vaccine would. He didn't say that masks alone would bring normalcy back. He didn't say masks were the panacea for everything.]
“If masks [are] the panacea for everything, then we can have everybody going back to work if they’ll just wear a mask. And I don’t know that Dr. Redfield would say that. I can tell you other doctors don’t say that,” Meadows told reporters .. https://www.c-span.org/video/?475942-1/mark-meadows-speaks-reporters .. outside the White House later Thursday.
“But if that’s the way that we open back our economy and get everybody back to work,” he continued, “I will gladly wear my mask each and every day, if that’s what makes the difference. And it doesn’t.”
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