In government this is how you get rid of people who are not on board with the current game plan. You let them keep their job, but you remove any semblance of power or authority from them. In state government I saw this play out several times when idiots were “kicked upstairs” the the state capital and put where they could do no harm. We used to joke to each other about “how long until so-and-so gets sent to Lansing and gets a broom-closet for an office?”
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LOL .... true.
Also:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52400721
'Ousted' US vaccine expert Rick Bright to file whistleblower complaint
A vaccine expert who says he lost his job because he disagreed with Donald Trump's claims about treatments for Covid-19 is to file a whistleblower complaint, his lawyers say.
Dr Rick Bright led the US government agency trying to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus.
He says he was ousted for questioning the potential of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug touted by Mr Trump. President Trump said he had "never heard" of Dr Bright. The president has previously mentioned the use of hydroxychloroquine and the related drug chloroquine as a possible "game changer" for Covid-19. However, many experts have cautioned that hydroxychloroquine could be ineffective, or even dangerous.
"In our filing we will make clear that Dr Bright was sidelined for one reason only - because he resisted efforts to provide unfettered access to potentially dangerous drugs, including chloroquine, a drug promoted by the administration as a panacea, but which is untested and possibly deadly when used improperly," a statement from the doctor's lawyers said.
But Politico reports that in internal emails Dr Bright praised the health department's recent acquisition of tens of millions of doses of those drugs.
"If Bright opposed hydroxychloroquine, he certainly didn't make that clear from his email - quite the opposite," an unnamed official told Politico.
Bright: "While I am prepared to look at all options and to think 'outside the box' for effective treatments, I rightly resisted efforts to provide an unproven drug on demand to the American public," Dr Bright said.
Asked about the row during the daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday, President Trump responded: "I've never heard of him."