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House report alleges Trump aides blocked public health officials from providing accurate Covid-19 information during pandemic
CNN ^ | October 17, 2022 | Daniella Diaz

Posted on 10/17/2022 5:18:59 PM PDT by lowbridge

Trump administration aides “usurped control of CDC communications and blocked public health officials from providing accurate information about the coronavirus to the American people,” the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, led by Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn, said in a report released Monday.

In its third wide-ranging investigation on the government response to the coronavirus pandemic, Democratic officials spoke with several senior officials who were at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention including former Director Dr. Robert Redfield, who said the Trump officials blocked the department from conveying information to Americans early on in the pandemic. The subcommittee also spoke to senior officials at the US Department of Health and Human Services during the Trump administration.

The 91-page report from the subcommittee utilized interviews with officials to make the case that former President Donald Trump and his team “installed political operatives who sought to downplay the seriousness of the pandemic.”

In one instance, a senior CDC communications officer, Kate Galatas, told the subcommittee Michael Caputo, a close Trump ally who was appointed as assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, used “bully-ish behavior” that made officials at the CDC “feel threatened.”

Caputo disputed the findings in the report in an interview with CNN.“That’s false. Donald Trump hired me to communicate the seriousness of the pandemic, that’s what I was hired for, I ran a team of 400 people to do that,” Caputo said in an interview with CNN.

“(Galatas) was a problem employee who I wrote up once and I can understand why she didn’t appreciate my management style because she was very difficult to manage,” Caputo added about the comments from the CDC communications officer.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cdc; covid; jimclyburn; robertredfeld; robertredfield
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To: SkyDancer

Damn, I missed it by THAT much

2 minutes


21 posted on 10/17/2022 5:57:20 PM PDT by digger48
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To: lowbridge; All

Don’t these people realize how pathetic they are? Oh wait… never mind.


22 posted on 10/17/2022 6:15:59 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: lowbridge

He couldn’t he block something that didn’t exist. As we know now… the entire affair was a scam. Statistics were fabricated and weaponized by the left. Magically folks who now die with Covid aren’t dying from it from any more.


23 posted on 10/17/2022 6:18:54 PM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: lowbridge

The first step in exonerating the lies and fabrications of Fauci.


24 posted on 10/17/2022 6:21:14 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: lowbridge

It was Qs plan all along to kill off libtards,only libtards would be foolish enough to take a poison jab,,,


25 posted on 10/17/2022 6:24:12 PM PDT by Craftmore
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To: lowbridge

Oh bull$#!t. We haven’t got straight story yet, long after Trump.


26 posted on 10/17/2022 6:28:09 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: lowbridge

Saw another media hit.. Trump threatened......

If this were anyone else.. including uno..there would be threats and follow up on every one!

All this unjustice is evil personified!


27 posted on 10/17/2022 6:28:31 PM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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To: lowbridge
"I saw President Trump grab the mouse and try to click the DELETE button on COVID information memos before Secret Service agents stopped him," a CDC whistleblower said to Clyburn.

-PJ

28 posted on 10/17/2022 6:36:16 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: lowbridge

Sure Jan.


29 posted on 10/17/2022 6:41:56 PM PDT by jdt1138 (Where ever you go, there you are.)
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To: lowbridge

Hussein and Plugs resolved the H1N1 (Swine Flu) pandemic of 2009 by deciding to stop recording new cases in Jan of 2010…CDC records; History of H1N1 2009.


30 posted on 10/17/2022 6:43:01 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: lowbridge

Would that be “accurate” according to what they were saying then, or “accurate” according to what they are saying now?


31 posted on 10/17/2022 7:09:56 PM PDT by sparrowsong
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To: digger48

Dad said I was pretty quick. LOL


32 posted on 10/17/2022 7:11:13 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: lowbridge

O, I C.

It was Trump aides that said HCQ was ineffective, that said Ivermectin would kill you, that masks were ineffective and then said masks were effective until they finally went back to saying they were ineffective.

It was Trump aides who said “12 days to flatten the curve” and now we’re at 500+ days and it must be Trump aides in the My Butt’s Been Wiped Administration telling us it’s time to go back to masks, social distancing and vax mandates.

It’s getting harder and harder to think that mass executions without trials would be a bad thing.


33 posted on 10/17/2022 7:43:26 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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34 posted on 10/17/2022 7:52:23 PM PDT by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'width=50%>)
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas
Worse.

Fauci sponsored/endorsed "experiment" on beagles being subjected to flea investation AFTER having had their vocal cords surgically removed.

35 posted on 10/17/2022 7:53:51 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lowbridge

I love the smell of Dem desperation … any time of day.


36 posted on 10/17/2022 7:57:44 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: lowbridge

HardeeHarHar!


37 posted on 10/17/2022 10:33:01 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray withSout ceasing)y)
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To: lowbridge

A new version of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey.

Tacking CV-19 to Trump’s backside.


38 posted on 10/18/2022 4:18:35 AM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: lowbridge

Must be a hang over day for Daniella Diaz pull old propaganda sheet from file reprint.


39 posted on 10/18/2022 8:26:01 AM PDT by Vaduz
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