Trump Didn't Like Azar's Warnings. So He Disappeared Him.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-didn-t-azar-warnings-080620165.html


The more we learn about what went on behind the scenes during the critical early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the more Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar had emerged as a rare and unlikely hero pushing the White House for an early response.

Speaking truth to power has its price in the Trump administration. The former Eli Lilly executive was shouted down by White House aides as “alarmist” and sidelined by Jared Kushner, Mike Pence and others willing to give the president a more rosy view. And on Sunday night, Trump lashed out at Azar by name for the first time, following a New York Times report that Azar had “directly warned Mr. Trump of the possibility of a pandemic during a call on Jan. 30, the second warning he delivered to the president about the virus in two weeks.”

House, Azar's future is uncertain but his attempts to get top officials and President Trump to pay attention to the coming pandemic should not be lost in the fog of war as Trump recasts history in his favor.

Almost every Democrat voted against Azar’s confirmation as health secretary in January 2018. As the president of the U.S. division of Eli Lilly, he had approved the tripling of the price of insulin and spoken out against the Affordable Care Act, insisting the free market should handle health care.

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[WVreaper]

1. The truth will come out.

[sop]

2. I would love to be a fly on the wall of the Oval Office to see how Trump browbeats his henchmen

into abject submission. Does Trump order the secret service to put a gun to their heads while making them offers they can't refuse? Are their wives and children threatened by his associates in the Russian mob? Does he pull out a bone saw and mention Khashoggi and MbS? Does Trump's power over them involve Kompromat? Polonium?

I would really like to understand why so many of his inner circle are so afraid of this POS.

[malaise]

3. THIS

I would really like to understand why so many of his inner circle are so afraid of this POS

[ooky]

6. If he was the absolute dictator he aspires to be he would be having these people taken

out back and shot.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. Me too. But think/wonder if he only picks weak people

to begin with? People he knows have a subservient nature. Or maybe a "chain of command" adherent? I know people like the latter in business. They don't question the people up the chain. It's not their role, not in their scope.

I've said this before, and I may be in the minority but don't like or trust Fauci.

[sop]

8. Fauci's character has never been tested like this before. Every other president he's advised has

been sane. Not one of his previous bosses has so completely politicized a deadly pandemic, ignored and denied scientific and medical reality, and lied to the American public like Trump has. Fauci strikes me as a smart, competent, reasonable man, but he's a career government bureaucrat, not cut out to deal with a malevolent clown like Trump.

The expression on Fauci's face and his body language as Trump ordered him to the podium to issue his "clarification" was frightening. It was a mixture of fear, resignation and professional embarrassment. Fauci probably convinced himself he was just being a good soldier, helping to save lives, but one could see his heart wasn't into it.

Trump completely wears people out. That seems to be his gift. He has some sort of strange power over those who come into his orbit. Decorated generals and powerful CEOs cower and submit to this despicable POS. People act like he's a live grenade, ready to explode and take out everyone within a certain radius. I'd like to understand what makes intelligent, accomplished people act this way.

Nancy Pelosi seems to be the only one in DC immune to his bullshit. I think she should write the book about Trump.

[dalton99a]

4. Anyone who approved the tripling of the price of insulin is a mass murderer in my book.

Azar is not a good or decent person, which is why Trump nominated him to run HHS

[SoonerPride]

5. +1,000,000

this is spot on.

they are all evil incarnate.