Former TFG adviser claims to 'expose unvarnished truth' of Covid in new book

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In a new book, former Trump adviser Scott Atlas blames Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci for “headline-dominating debacles” about quack cures for Covid-19 – but omits to mention the chief proponent of snake-oil treatments, including hydroxychloroquine and disinfectant, was the US president he loyally served.

Atlas, a radiologist, is a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, California, specializing in health care policy. He became a special adviser to Donald Trump in August 2020, five months into the pandemic, but resigned less than four months later after a controversial spell in the role.

His book, A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop Covid from Destroying America, will be published on 7 December. Its publisher is Bombardier Books, an imprint of PostHill Press, a conservative outlet that will also publish a memoir by Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s fourth press secretary.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-trump-adviser-claims-to-expose-unvarnished-truth-of-covid-in-new-book/ar-AAR4NTI

Another attempt at historical revisionism that will be in the discount stack.

[RobinA]

1. Why Not Wait

to see what the man has to say before deciding that he is a revisionist.

[Poiuyt]

5. I think it's a pretty safe assumption

He was one of the biggest misinformation spreaders in the Trump administration.

[Crunchy Frog]

10. He's already said quite enough to know that it will be full of BS and lies.

[Caliman73]

2. Eventually the discount rack, but first the NYT bestsellers list.

This is what the right wing does. They will but the book in bulk to pump up sales numbers. it will go onto the NYT's Bestsellers List. The right will tout it as an "important" book. Then it will gradually fade. The problem is that the damage will be done. The lie will be out there.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Doubt it'll change anyone's mind

Only reaffirm the anti-vaxxers' and Trumpers' POV as many of them die off.

[PatSeg]

4. True

And I can't see the guy making much money off it, as Trumpers are not known to read actual books.

[keep_left]

8. Yup. Look for the little dagger or asterisk next to the title in the NYT list.

The NYT caught on to this scam years ago when the right-wing think tanks and foundations started buying up books in bulk to give away at their rubber chicken dinners, etc. Anything they couldn't give away either got sold to the dollar stores or was shredded. The wingnut welfare system is so large that it represents a significant distortion of the book market. So the NYT has booksellers report to them when they get lots of bulk sales for these kinds of books no one reads (e.g. Don Jr's multiple ghostwritten titles).

[Comfortably_Numb]

6. GFY, atlas. You were right there throwing' in with orange Foolius!

[gratuitous]

7. Between Condoleezza Rice and this quack

Stanford has much to answer for to the country.

[GoCubsGo]

9. Don't forget Brock Turner...