Thank you for your detailed reply. As you know, I have great respect for your posts.
However in this case, it appears we disagree. The NIH is an Executive Branch organization, under the direct control of the President. Just as Obama was able to stop the process while President, Trump had that same authority.
And gain of function was a topic of great national discussion and controversy by April 2020. Trump had plenty of time while he was President, and much more of a legitimate reason, to ban it than Obama did.
Thanks for the nice comments.
It’s okay to disagree. Hey, I’m doing it. LOL
Not everyone is as anal as we are on these things. We’re a
think tank, and we focus in and study issues a slot more
than others do. That includes the president.
So while we can hone it down and make a dead set
determination, Trump probably wouldn’t have. The man
has a ton of stuff in the hopper all the time. He gets
a few hours of sleep, and he’s on the go again.
On top of that is the issue of the NIH, the WHO, the CDC
and others telling him it wasn’t the Wuhan Lab. Then
there’s the issue of them favoring the practice of Gain
of Function for study purposes.
Fauci was meeting and lying to him often.
The media couldn’t have been bothered less about
something their side was doing that should have been a
reasoned thing to reveal and criticize in public.
Trump was not and is not going to get everything right,
and I’d say that’s not as bad as it might seem to some
people.
The guy is human.
The thing that is an issue > IMO, is the fact he is still
of a mind to support the vaccine. Somehow he hasn’t
been brought up to date on that yet. Seems impossible,
but it is what it is.
I do not think he would defend Pfizer so they could
increase profits at the public’s expense. He’s not that
type of person, again > IMO.