As Dr. Fauci says it’s time to “reset” and stop playing games, the White House is now directing hospitals to bypass the CDC and send all of its coronavirus data directly to President Trump. Former acting director of the CDC Dr. Richard Besser joins “The Beat” to discuss the significance of this move and a recent op-ed he penned for The Washington Post, reading “we ran the CDC. No president ever politicized its science the way Trump has.” Besser adding on the show that the White House’s move is a “red flag.” (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. ). Aired on 7/15/2020.
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'Disaster': Former CDC Chief Says Trump Is Putting Americans 'At Risk' | MSNBC
The Orange Dinosaur last gasps of political life . . . . .
Don Hardcastle President Biden will mop the floor with poor whiny trumpy bear 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Don Hardcastle
I’m sure you will imagine that Trump wins the debates, but they are not going to have much effect at this point. People have already decided.
@donhardcastle. Yes brother shout it from the rooftops. Our great leader is a true, disciplined master of all subjects. His manner so concise, so well-focused, and organized. Is he not a champion of both the dialectic and the Socratic method? We will sit back and watch donny crush his opposition with an oratory skill, that Lincoln would envy. trump2020-2040…
@Jock Young I think you’re right Jock… People have made up their mind…
How much influence do you think tearing down statues, terrorizing our cities and killing our children has had?
Sure, the virus is fcuking us! But let’s check the timeline Jock…
Jan. 12th Trump wanted to close our borders…
Jan 17th Joe called him a xenophobic racist……
Mid-February Pelosis’ out talking about “come join us in celebrating the Chinese New Year in San Francisco’s Chinatown!”
Really?
And you know Susan Rosenberg is running BLM, right? Google her…
Now Joe has to deal with another embarrassing thing with the Ukrainians releasing the Poreshenko/Biden phone call tapes…
I think people have made up their minds Jock…. just not the way you’re thinking…..
@Adam Roberts ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! E-gads!
*..yep, this GOP are trying to Cover-Up Covid hospitalisation Numbers & Deaths: If they do this, then good luck with your insurance company finding you a hospital bed in the moment you’ll need it most! Medical Insurance Coordinators rely on accurate & frequently updated national information to assist & organise YOUR medical health care! 👉 Now We Are All **#InTheDark*
*Don’t listen to what this Trump WH say 👉 WATCH WHAT THEY DO! 👈*
*Good luck America🤞*
Exactly! Watch this Whitehouse destroy the swamp before November… Durham and Horowitz are coming back!
Good point. These people won’t be laughing when their loved ones are in that situation
@Don Hardcastle ahahahahahahaha , right for the election. Nothing for 4 years but just before the election, magically, the swamp… dried up. It sounds dodgy
@Walter Bo well, fair is fair, the Democrats and radical Left have had 4 years of throwing tantrums and a soft coup attempt, it’s now HIS turn!
Uh-oh……
Then those tapes??? Ewww….. ouch
That’s the goal. Trump IS the Anti-Christ here to destroy mankind. The pandemic is one of the vehicles used to carry this out. Trump/SATAN; is successful because the masses scoff at the idea that SATAN could assume human form.
Have had that same thought every time I hear a “Prosperity” gospel evangelical Grifter like Paula White, Ken Copeland and the entire greedy, rotten bunch of criminal wolves in sheep’s clothing falsely claim trump is a “chosen” one. He was chosen alright, by Satan!!
I really believe that too, I’m not super religious and doubted that the devil really existed, until tRump. He is the devil incarnate. Lord help us all!
He’s cutting off the people who are trying to help us, and he’s choosing money over health and safety!
@Tosca Tattertail
*How Do Mask Wearers Feel After Hearing From Dr Fauci.*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRhm-xc7oBE
@Crystal Giddens You need to have a look at a whole interview with Dr Fauci and see why he said that in the early stages – because he was afraid that even fewer PPEs would be available for health professionals. The situation has changed as has the knowledge about this virus so the advice is changed to meet the new information.
@aussie jim exactly, does no one understand china basically bought the world supply?
If we vote him to stay in then I honestly dont know what to say about America anymore.
@Rare Gem why?
“Testing creates cases.” ~ DJTrump.
(and protecting Inspectors General creates more crimes)
Pregnancy tests create babies. That would explain why he has 5 kids. As a woman, I never understood that.
The white house covering up the facts by interfering with hospital data.. The whole Trump Administration is desperate to hide the truth.
Trump doesn’t like Dr. Fauci because he’s a scientists that deals in facts, and Trump is a con-man who deals in lies and disinformation. There is a natural conflict of interest there. Trump will attack anyone that even thinks about telling the American people the truth. In order for Trump to survive, he has to keep the American people lost in a swamp of darkness, lies, and deceit.
Fun fact: Dr. Fauci is actually smarter than Trump and his entire cabinet of nincompoops put together. Trump and his cabinet are like the remedial class clowns that sit in the back of the class making fun of the kid that actual does his homework and comes to class prepared.
@Sean M no need to wear masks bc china bought the world supply to the point their isn’t enough for doctors
Lol his supporters tend to be into religion more than science 😂
@Sean M he asked people not to buy PPEs because the medical profession needed it more. And he was right. As for China, Trump allowed 500k Chinese people into America between January and March, even while he was telling America’s people that he had instigated a travel ban.
Trump is getting things done we dont know about while also feeding the dems what they want– a reason to complain, cuz a good leader knows what his people want and thus gives them what they want.
@Jake Rojas yet no person or professional asked or wanted this switch
What many people don’t realise is that if the hospital beds are full of covid patients, then there’s no room for anyone else.
If you live in Florida or Arizona, try not to have a heart attack, or a car accident or a stroke any time soon. Cos if you do, you might need treatment and they might not have an ICU bed available for you!
Allowing the virus to spread undeterred won’t just cause 1000’s of unnecessary covid deaths, it will cause 1000’s of unnecessary deaths from other causes too!
Bone spurs isn’t qualified to command a paintball team.
Trump is running the country the exact same way he ran his failed businesses, including his failed casinos. In the end Trump couldn’t care less what happens to the country. It’s all just a game to him, and the objective of the game is for him to extract as much personal wealth as he can before everyone finally catches on to his con, and realizes that he has no clue what he’s doing. He has done the exact same thing with his fake charity foundation, and his fake university.
Even as his casinos did poorly, Trump did well. He put up little of his own money, shifted personal debts to the casinos and collected millions of dollars in salary, bonuses and other payments. The burden of his failures fell on investors and others who had bet on his business acumen. And that is Trump in a nutshell. A narcissistic sociopathic con-man who only cares about himself, and will use others to achieve his own self-serving desires.
In interviews with The Times, Trump acknowledged that high debt and lagging revenues had plagued his casinos. He repeatedly emphasized that what really mattered about his time in Atlantic City was that he had made a lot of money there.
Trump assembled his casino empire by borrowing money at such high interest rates — after telling regulators he would not — that the businesses had almost no chance to succeed.
His casino companies made four trips to bankruptcy court, each time persuading bondholders to accept less money rather than be wiped out. But the companies repeatedly added more expensive debt and returned to the court for protection from lenders.
After narrowly escaping financial ruin in the early 1990s by delaying payments on his debts, Trump avoided a second potential crisis by taking his casinos public and shifting the risk to stockholders.
And he never was able to draw in enough gamblers to support all of the borrowing. During a decade when other casinos there thrived, Trump’s lagged, posting huge losses year after year. Stock and bondholders lost more than $1.5 billion.
Trump now says that he left Atlantic City at the perfect time. Well no sh’t. He left after he had ruined everything, and there was no more money for him to grift. The record shows that he struggled to hang on to his casinos years after the city had peaked, and failed only because his investors no longer wanted him in a management role..
He just did not put the equity into the projects he should have to keep them solvent,” said H. Steven Norton, a casino consultant. “When he went bankrupt, he not only cost bondholders money, but he hurt a lot of small businesses that helped him construct the Taj Mahal.”
In an interview with the Times, Trump said “Atlantic City was a very good cash cow for me for a long time.” Like a true sociopath, Trump boasts about how he ravaged Atlantic City, without any regard for all the people and businesses he hurt along the way.
Beth Rosser of West Chester, Pa., is still bitter over what happened to her father, whose company Triad Building Specialties nearly collapsed when Trump took the Taj into bankruptcy. It took three years to recover any money owed for his work on Trump’s casino” she said, and her father received only 30 cents on the dollar.
“Trump crawled his way to the top on the back of little guys, one of them being my father,” said Ms. Rosser, who runs Triad today. “He had no regard for the thousands of men and women who worked on those projects.”
“He put a number of local contractors and suppliers out of business when he didn’t pay them,” said Steven P. Perskie, who was New Jersey’s top casino regulator in the early 1990s. “So when he left Atlantic City, it wasn’t, ‘Sorry to see you go.’ It was, ‘How fast can you get the he// out of here?’”
David J I don’t know how you did it, BUT YOU’VE DONE IT AGAIN! I tip my hat to you and your amazing comments on his weaknesses! 🎩
I read your comment twice, as it so blew me away. I didn’t vote last time, thinking who would EVER vote for this conman, This bullshitter! But plenty enough did. I will Never slack off like that again!!;. I will vote him out, with All The people who want our America Back and trumpviris45 is in jail. We are going to vote Big.. too Big to Rig !! He will have to crawl out from under All those blue ballets. Vote too Big to Rig!! Yours was a great comment, thanks.
Covid deaths today:
Singapore: 0
Switzerland: 0
Denmark: 0
Norway: 0
Finland: 0
Croatia: 0
Greece: 0
New Zealand: 0
South Korea: 0
China: 0
Thailand: 0
Belgium: 1
Austria: 1
Ireland: 2
Japan: 2
Australia: 3
Spain: 4
Germany: 4
Poland: 6
Portugal: 8
Sweden: 10
Canada: 12
Italy: 13
The USA: 900+
Donald Trump “The numbers are only high because of testing”
Donald Trump “We have the lowest mortality rate in the world”
@Tigs2 – I think it was a joke. USA No 1 … for death.
Trump doesn’t want to let Brazil take 1st place.
God help us all, the worst is yet to come
“We are in a good place” says Trump
Robert J. Williamson – got it 😊
Psychopaths like Trump don’t care about lives. He’s all about himself.
So true
@D Sab hypocrites like you are all about yourself and sneering at anyone who doesn’t agree with you.
@J S ahahahahahahaha you just did that!!! Hypocrite
Trump knows he’s going down and wants to leave a big mess for the next administration.
If trump can order the hospitals to only tell the White House the real numbers, can he do that with the election too?
I hope he is hunted down like snake that he is.
@IsThatTrue OrDidYouHearItOnFOX
Good question.
You guys must go further. “I think is a red flag?” “I see it as nothing less than criminal and if let stand will result in more American deaths than otherwise,” would be more truthful. Newscasters must push further.
Trump and Co.: Get Fauci.
Sane humans who live in reality: Evict Donald Trump and his incompetent Yes Men.
The data is headed for a paper shredder and we all know it.
Possible cover-up by the government of data sounds like a dictatorship regime to me.
It does sound rather suspicious for them to be trying to bring all the data in where they can control it.
@Jock Young – It really goes along with Trump’s “slow the testing down” rhetoric.
exactly,that’s what nicaraguas dictator does,cover up data
Trump placed americans at risk the moment he walked into the white house.
Trump is a basic conman, and Fauci is highly educated. Those are two types that don’t get along well, as the highly educated can see through lies and BS which is all Trump has…
It’s a disaster.
Because of who’s in office, period.