Trump White House Repeatedly Blocked Critical COVID Warnings, Officials Tell House Probe

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Donald Trump administration intervened multiple times to block critically important warnings to the public from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as COVID-19 was exploding across the nation, top health officials have told congressional investigators, according to newly released interviews and other records released Friday.

A furious Trump immediately curtailed CDC officials’ media appearances after agency health expert Dr. Nancy Messonnier warned early last year that the spread of COVID-19 was inevitable, she told the House select subcommittee on the pandemic.

“Our intention was certainly to get the public’s attention,” Messonnier told investigators, but she was later reprimanded for the warning, including by then-Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.

The CDC held no news briefings between early March 9 and the end of May last year as the pandemic was building and despite repeated requests from the agency, The Washington Post noted.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-white-house-repeatedly-blocked-044314803.html

[andym]

1. Irresponsible actions from a sociopathic President

Trump is the ultimate representative of selfishness, the key defining trait of the modern day GOP, in that he tries to do only that which helps himself--not that his actions actually did help him. By not spreading the word he made things much worse for himself, but he was not bright enough to understand that.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Which is better? Socialism or Sociopathy? Tough choice? False choice. It's not even socialism

It boils down to People or Profit.

The sociopaths are trying to turn it into Pestilence ("Demonrats" ) versus Prophet.

[erronis]

18. Most of the people we want to have change their minds don't understand those words.

Socialism or Sociopathy.

And the enemies of society (currently repuglicons) have tried to change the meaning of "socialism". It is anything that isn't rabid free capitalism or libertarianism.

They have also embraced sociopathy as a necessary way of ruling their poor peons. Look at all those stellar examples of Bolsonaro, Orban, Hitler, Putin/Stalin, trump.

And most of these are psychopaths also. Enjoying watching the "others" suffer and die.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Yeah, but it's not libertarianism. It's faux pseudo-libertarianism: "liberty for me, not for you"

Most especially, they don't believe in liability, as true libertarians do.

"Why shouldn't I pollute the air and river? It's free!"

It's white privilege libertarianism, like the jetting real estate agent: "I'm too white and too blond to go to prison".

[elleng]

2. USE THIS, Dems!

Do NOT forget.

[calimary]

5. Definitely!

Dems: DO NOT Forget!!!

[malaise]

7. These are crimes against humanity

plain and simple

[triron]

14. Hoping (in vain?) that they will get treated as such.

Yet so many still support this sociopath criminal. Looney tunes!

[LiberalFighter]

3. The crack is widening

Should really help TFG get reelected. But as some have suggested he can't run for election in 2024 if he is president now.

[lame54]

4. Prisoners of Love...

They can make a fortune

[malaise]

6. Meanwhile listen to this shit

[erronis]

19. That made me realize how false these people were and how they caused so many deaths

The fawning behavior of the officials in front of that bloated piece of shit is disgusting.

I have worked in government. I don't know if I would have had the moral strength to say "you're a lying bad of shit" and lost my job.

But I'm hoping every individual that kowtowed to the trumpists during this horrific regime are properly rewarded (punished).

[malaise]

20. The worst was Azar suggesting that the Slobfather was saying the same thing as

Fauci. They all committed crimes against humanity and should be punished.

[malaise]

21. The worst was Azar suggesting that the Slobfather was saying the same thing as

Fauci. They all committed crimes against humanity and should be punished.

[LuckyCharms]

26. And now, there are over 783,000 US Covid deaths

And this glimpse of these assholes at the beginning of the pandemic in this country is nothing less than obscene.

I can't post what I am thinking about that cartoonish figure with the black jacket and red hat.

Thanks for posting this, malaise. Clips from this conference should be played aggressively by MSM, as a reminder of what got us to this point.

[malaise]

28. I bookmarked this

Self-serving denial on steroids

[monkeyman1]

8. well,well,well, - republican's have a huge anchor around their damn neck !

didn't want to fight c-19 because of election's coming up ? who would have guessed ?that's a great message to stump on in '22 ! they should have power because we helped kill over 700,000 people ! makes ya want to vote for them ?

[johnnyfins]

16. I am amazed at the stupidity

TFG could have gotten re-elected easily if he would have taken his head out of his ass. All he needed to do was listen to the experts and shut the F up.

[triron]

17. But there are so many stupids that will.

[regrestic]

10. We always recall when she said it was coming..

I remember when she was on RMS, stating that it was coming and we should beware.. That night & name stuck in our heads, my wife is a nurse, she took that as a serious warning..

[cstanleytech]

11. CDC as well as the DOJ need to put outside the area for any President to pervert.

[NewJeffCT]

12. near genocidal in his actions

I would think

[TeamProg]

13. No surprise there.. n/t

[OMGWTF]

15. What a fidiot! I remember when he wanted to stop all testing to make the number look better.

WTAF? How stoooooopid is he?

[Snackshack]

23. 782,000

This is the real crime 1/6 is was too distract from this IMO. What DT/ Pence/ Meadows/ Kushner et al did in the response to COVID-19 is a horrific crime. DT lying about C19’s seriousness when he knew how deadly it was because he wanted to “play it down”. The bull 💩he put Governor’s thru for ventilators. The reporting that said Kushner and others thought C19 was hitting blue states hardest and slow walked the response. Never signing the Defense Authorization Act to get PPE to states. This above keeping vital information from the public that could have saved lives. All the disinformation, which a study done by Cornell showed that DT himself was the source of the greatest amount of misinformation…and so much more.

COVID-19 is the greatest single death event of Americans in our entire history. No other single event has killed so many not the Civil War or Wars 1 or 2 or 1918. ~782,000 Americans (actually probably many, many more) because of the skewed recording of COVID death in certain states. A small group of people led by a narcissist con man has killed over 3/4 of a million Americans and people are still dying. Everyone in that small group from DT on down should have been charged with reckless homicide at the very least to murder and looking at spending the rest of their lives in prison.

There should have been a special prosecutor tasked to investigate this by the end of January. The GOP went ballistic over the tragic deaths of 4 Americans in Benghazi yet they have been silent on the deaths of ~782,000 except to encourage more to die by under cutting the vaccine all in order to hurt Biden. I will never forget or forgive what the GOP has done.

[triron]

31. This is the insane asylum we live in now.

For your own sanity maybe best to find distractions, at least much of the time.
After all, what control do we have except our own personal lives (and even that is questionable)?

[moondust]

24. crimes against humanity

For his mishandling of the pandemic:

Jair Bolsonaro is accused of crimes against humanity in Brazil

Brazil Senate recommends Bolsonaro be charged with crimes against humanity

[triron]

32. Yeah, but this is the country is the greatest in the world (sarcasm).

[Skittles]

25. put that fascist bastard under oath for eleven hours

WTF - how can it be possible he can run again to be "president" -- this is INSANITY

[malaise]

29. How can M$Greedia even mention the thought of him running without

talking about his crimes against humanity.
There must be consequences

[malaise]

30. How can M$Greedia even mention the thought of him running without

talking about his crimes against humanity.
There must be consequences

[calimary]

27. Schmuck.

That's my word for you, donald. Own it.

SCHMUCK.

[Orsino]

33. Exactly as Putin ordered. n/t