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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Jun 21, 2022, 01:01 PM Jun 2022

Jared Kushner convened 'China Virus Huddles' 3 times a week during the Trump administration to discu

As the Trump administration worked to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, White House advisor Jared Kushner began to convene thrice-weekly "China Virus Huddles" to strategize on pandemic messaging, according to newly-released documents.

Those "huddles, according to a House committee probing the US's COVID-19 response, would typically include Kellyanne Conway, a senior counselor to the president; Hope Hicks, an assistant to the president; Paul Mango, the deputy chief of staff for policy at the Department of Health and Human Services; and Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House's coronavirus response coordinator.

They also included Dr. Scott Atlas, a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution who was later brought into the administration as a special advisor to President Donald Trump on issues concerning COVID-19.

The meetings, according to the report, were "used to hone the White House's coronavirus messaging and address key 'operational aspects' of the response outside of the White House Coronavirus Task Force structure."



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jared-kushner-convened-china-virus-huddles-3-times-a-week-during-the-trump-administration-to-discuss-pandemic-messaging-documents-show/ar-AAYHYKd

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Jared Kushner convened 'China Virus Huddles' 3 times a week during the Trump administration to discu (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2022 OP
Wasn't Dr. Birx trying to tell us how shut out of the process she was? gratuitous Jun 2022 #1
Well, it's hard to believe that a meeting Hav Jun 2022 #3
More from the article- Scott Atlas (POS) was there from the beginning underpants Jun 2022 #2

gratuitous

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1. Wasn't Dr. Birx trying to tell us how shut out of the process she was?
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 01:09 PM
Jun 2022

Seems like just a few weeks ago Dr. Birx was peddling the tale of her non-involvement with the White House during the early to middle stages of their inept response to the pandemic. But there's her name, right on the August 12, 2020 agenda.

Hav

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3. Well, it's hard to believe that a meeting
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 02:02 PM
Jun 2022

headed by these bozos was very fruitful. And I suppose it's understandable that she wouldn't want to reveal that she was part of the "China virus huddle". To use such a wording in August 2020 is pure malice. Any involvement with the Trump admin must have been embarrassing for her.

underpants

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2. More from the article- Scott Atlas (POS) was there from the beginning
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 01:17 PM
Jun 2022

The committee also revealed that Scott's engagement with the White House began far earlier than previously thought. While Atlas officially joined the administration in August 2020, he sent an email to Seema Verma, then the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in March 2020.

"The total lockdown is a massive overreaction and super harmful to our entire society," Atlas wrote in the March 21, 2020 email. He went on to predict that the virus "would cause about 10,000 deaths" which "would be unnoticed in the total of flu-like deaths every season."

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