CDC director Robert Redfield ordered the deletion of an email showing political interference in COVID-19 guidance deemed damaging to President Donald Trump, according to Jim Clyburn (D-GA), head of the House Subcommittee on Coronavirus.
Guarandamntee ya, this is but a tiny bit of the shenanigans going on in this Admin.
This is not surprising in any way. It’s just a tiny peek at the mountain of shit that was done to protect trumps ego
Just beat me to it CV…
Can Redfield be terminated, or does Joe just need to reassign him to counting COVID cases in Antarctica?
I can literally smell Redfield sweating from here. Having your fingerprints all over what amounts to willful negligence genocide can’t be a comfortable position.
Perjury, contempt of Congress, destruction of public records. Or as the Trump Administration describes it, “Thursday.”
– O Jogo Benito, WaPo commenter
As recently as 5 years ago, this was enough of a scandal to have brought down a president in disgrace. And yet there have been hundreds, if not thousands of incidents like this and 100x worse, throughout the Trump admin.
Please tell me this behavior is subject to prosecution. Lawyers?
Well of course, the POTUS then was BHO
Yes, Biden could fire Redfield on Day One, if he wanted to.
One would think that, immediately following the inauguration, lots of documents and witnesses will be appearing before these committees. There will be few executive privilege claims and those that are made will be in the courts, post haste. Sort of like Watergate, lots of things will be discovered after the fact, guilty parties will be held accountable and legislation to prevent such occurrences will be written.
One can only imagine the torrents and cataracts of mis, mal and nonfeasance.
Not under the current AG.
“Redfield ordered the deletion of an email showing political interference in COVID-19 guidance deemed damaging to President Donald Trump…”
IANAL, but this seems beyond mere “shenanigans”. Isn’t it a federal crime to destroy such records?
I’ve had it with Redfield. He and Dr. Scarf can lick Trump’s boots in hell.
Redfield is just another subdwarf in the universe of Deplorables.
You are too kind.
I’m pretty sure this violates federal records management procedures.
