Trump team weighs a CDC scrubbing to deflect mounting criticism

[Zorro]

With Trump under fire for his handling of the outbreak, his advisers are eyeing the federal bureaucracy for other culprits ahead of the election.

White House officials are putting a target on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, positioning the agency as a coronavirus scapegoat as cases surge in many states and the U.S. falls behind other nations that are taming the pandemic.

Trump administration aides in recent weeks have seriously discussed launching an in-depth evaluation of the agency to chart what they view as its missteps in responding to the pandemic including an early failure to deploy working test kits, according to four senior administration officials. Part of that audit would include examining more closely the state-by-state death toll to tally only the Americans who died from Covid-19 directly rather than other factors. About 120,000 people in the U.S. have died of the coronavirus so far, according to the CDC’s official count.

Aides have also discussed narrowing the mission of the agency or trying to embed more political appointees in it, according to interviews with 10 current and former senior administration officials and Republicans close to the White House. One official said the overall goal would be to make the CDC nimble and more responsive.

Politically, Trump aides have also been looking for a person or entity outside China to blame for the coronavirus response and have grown furious with the CDC, including its public health guidance and actions on testing, making it a prime target. But some wonder whether the wonky-sounding CDC, which the administration directly oversees, could be an effective fall guy on top of Trump’s efforts to blame the World Health Organization.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/23/trump-cdc-overhaul-coronavirus-335039

What a fucking disaster this president is.

[hedda_foil]

1. Jesus H. Christ! These people are all insane!

[soothsayer]

2. Wow rearranging the deck chairs is a real thing with them

However, since we’ve never heard boo from the cdc, I don’t think it will impress anyone. They’ve largely been silent and absent instead of in the lead (aside from their initial contaminated home grown test kits, having rejected WHO’s).

[Blue_true]

7. Please get facts into your post.

Trump didn't want the WHO test kits. He had earlier gutted our cooperation with the WHO and China's virus prevention efforts.

The problem was and is Trump. He has muzzled the CDC, EVERYTHING is on him.

[bdamomma]

11. He is

committing CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

He is a criminal and a thug.

[Blue_true]

12. Yes. And add soulless creep to your list. nt

[erronis]

3. It's not just a cleansing of non-trumpians; it's a dismantling of the the US gov't.

trump doesn't expect to be in this country when it all comes collapsing down.

He'll fly out on some unscheduled route to a supposedly secure location that doesn't allow extradition. Probably the USSR.

He has installed a whole lot of incompetents to lead most departments and agencies. They are dismantling any reasonable form of government and may be able to join the trump family in siberia.

Or not. I'm guessing that most of his cabinet who have actively dissed trump in the past will not be seated at the table with putin. They will have to fend for themselves in the US as the moscow-directed implosion and revolution happens in the US. Perhaps barr will enjoy a large seat. Not sure eric, barron, svetlana.

Or not. I'm also guessing that this is not going to go down as the machiavellian/opus-dei crowd are hoping. I'm guessing that the people of the US and the world are a lot more resilient to these human aberrations that trumputin expect.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Same Logic As "No Test, No Virus"

Of course they'd do it.
The stupid is, at least, consistent.

[Blue_true]

8. They want to turn the CDC into a cadre of political bootlickers.

Horrible idea. We have to vote him out.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Sure

Recommendations will be to forget masks, social distancing & it's all over now.
The professionals there will have an aneurysm.

[42bambi]

5. Trump is trying to erase his screw-ups with more screw-ups. He needs to have

his baby bib changed, it's getting mighty sticky from all of his drooling.

[Blue_true]

6. We HAVE to get rid of Trump on November 3. If we don't

our country is destroyed.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. So he's not trying to make the CDC more effective

He just wants them to cover his enormous ass.

[Corgigal]

13. Then we will be seeing

more drop in place videos. I remember seeing them out of China.

Trumps team can’t lie this way for re-election, Biden needs to hire scientists and medical experts for thinking scientific thinking Americans, and have a video briefing daily. Move Trump over from his office title, take it now.