Birx Claims Trump Was Fed ‘Parallel Data’ On COVID: ‘I Saw Graphs I Never Made’ | Talking Points Memo

Dr. Deborah Birx, who served as the White House coronavirus response coordinator during the Trump administration, on Sunday expressed regrets over failing to push back at President Trump’s unfounded claims on COVID-19 while also shedding light on the spread of disinformation inside Trump’s White House.


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Graphs she never made? Written with a Sharpie, perhaps?

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NoT sure EhY the TrumP adminisTration relieD on so ObviousLY unqualiFied individuals. ThEy shOuldve fireD birX sOOner and lisTENED MOre to Atlas.

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Lots of $20.00 words…here’s one:

Genocide

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Of all the offenses the previous administration gave us, manufactured data gave us an incomprehensible amount of loss.

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Sorry, but Birx’s sole contribution to the fight against Covid was that she was such a complete Trump suck-up that she managed to make Fauci look courageous and independent by contrast.

She never missed an opportunity to polish Trump’s apple (as it were) …

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In grammar, the passive voice is a boon for people like Birx.

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Parallel??!? More like orthogonal.
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“I saw the president presenting graphs that I never made,” Birx said. “So, I know that someone out there or someone inside was creating a parallel set of data and graphics that were shown to the president.”

WTF: Birx is still giving Donnie a pass. We all should know (at least from the hurricane track) that if orange shitgibbon didn’t like a data set, he was perfectly capable of finding another or making his own.
There doesn’t have to be another fucking source advising the president.

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do we have data on the number of tests being performed? Because I find it diffucult to believe that the number of new cases is declining that rapidly – is it possible that testing resources have been diverted to the vaccination effort?

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[“I saw the president presenting graphs that I never made,” Birx said. “So, I know that someone out there or someone inside was creating a parallel set of data and graphics that were shown to the president.”]

Elves?

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Let’s get this right: Keebler elves.

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InteresTing the Uptick In caseS and Deaths Around The election. It’s As IF americAns becaMe despondent, jusTgaVe up anD died at the result of the election beinG stolen froM trump.

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RuNNing out of ameriCans?

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Well sure…Atlas is likely the person who created the graphs…BUT…they were created because that’s what Who? demanded.

So…sure blame Atlas as a slime, but in this case and in the case of all the hideousness from this badministration…the fuck stops here, with the here being the feet of the former occupant.

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That is exactly what she is doing. She ought to go away, hide out and hope so many bigger fools get exposed that she is not worth covering.

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“It’s very important to me that we all agree on how the data was collected”.

…but not important enough to blow the whistle?

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I think that hits it on the head: discouraging people from wearing masks during this pandemic is analogous to giving Native Americans measles and small pox infected blankets.

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Just go away. You screwed over your own reputation.

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