Trump officials bragged about blocking scientists from accurately reporting on COVID-19

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It’s not certain that Donald Trump did everything wrong when it comes to handling COVID-19, but he certainly tried. Not only did Trump promote false cures and downplay effective strategies, he deliberately avoided creating a national testing plan because he thought this would lead to a greater number of deaths in Democratically controlled states. That action alone meets the U.N. definition for genocide, and researchers have set the number of unnecessary deaths in the U.S. at 400,000.

But Trump didn’t do it alone. At every step, he had the assistance of Republicans inside and outside the White House who worked with Trump downplay the threat, misdirect public concerns, and mock serious efforts to halt the spread of COVID-19. That included not just sidelining serious officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci and inserting unqualified Trump supporters like Scott Atlas, but forcing officials within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other agencies to either suppress information or alter statements.

A year later the House select subcommittee on the pandemic and its handling is finally getting a look at some of those internal calculations and decisions. The Washington Post has acquired copies of documents before that committee showing Trump officials pressured agencies and scientists to change their reporting to the public. Then those officials celebrated the fact that the nation had been duped.

In September of 2020, The New York Times reported on how Caputo and Alexander worked together to bully and silence scientists. For example, when 32-year-year CDC veteran Dr. Anne Schuchat made an appeal to Americans to wear masks, saying, “We have too much virus across the country,” Alexander went on the attack. In an interview with The Journal of the American Medical Association, Alexander claimed that Schuchat’s real goal was to embarrass Trump. Alexander called her “duplicitous,” said that the threat of COVID-19 to children was “zero,” and stated of Schuchat, “She has lied.” Working together with Caputo, Alexander attempted to stifle Schuchat by threatening to hang all the deaths connected to the H1N1 virus on her decisions.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/4/9/2025112/-Trump-officials-bragged-about-blocking-scientists-from-accurately-reporting-on-COVID-19

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1. Murderers

"In an interview with The Journal of the American Medical Association, Alexander claimed that Schuchat’s real
goal was to embarrass Trump." No Dr. Schuctat's goals was to save lives and stop the spread of the disease.
Trump did and still does a good job of embarrassing himself all on his own.

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2. Prosecute them!