Columbia Doctor Defends University After Trump Bashes ‘Liberal’ Institution Over Damning COVID Study

Dr. Craig Spencer, the director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine at Columbia University, defend his colleagues and himself on Sunday night after President Donald Trump attacked the university for discovering that tens of thousands of American lives could’ve been saved had action on COVID-19 been taken sooner in March.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1310648
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Proving once again “Truth has a liberal bias”.

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How dare anyone disagree with Dr. Jenius von Stable?

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You want to see disgraceful, look in the bloody mirror, you loser.

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If I ran any of the organizations that he has called “disgraceful” I would frame it and hang it at the door…

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The President accused the university of “playing right to their little group of people that tell them what to do.”
Ironic isn’t it? Dolt45 is listening to a little group of people, mainly huge donors, when making decisions.

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When Trump loses by a landslide in November, will the rest of 2020 have been worth it…:thinking:

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Too close to call.

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No. 100000 deaths.

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Why even bother responding to the imbecile? It just sets up this reaction.

“Trump claims Columbia University is “disgraceful”. Columbia Doctor disagrees.”
“Blah blah blah…”
“We’ll just have to Leave it there.”

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THis stUdy is Fake neWs. TrUmp shut it All down in China befOre anybody kneW therE was a Country callEd chinA. MnuChin saID shut doWn eUrope becAuse chinavirus Could comE from there. He’s Smarter aNd knoWs morE thaN thE doctors. Go out aNd get jobs, go to schoolS and beacHes chinaVirus is conqUered by Trum p

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Do your job, asshole.

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Enough. Trump is a vicious pig deserving of nothing but to be shunned by every decent American.

I don’t know if Columbia University is “liberal” or “conservative” but if Donald J. Trump’s behavior is what counts as “conservative” I would expect they would be proud to be called liberal.

As to the rest, all America knows that while Trump played golf and pretended to be king he dithered for weeks. Acting during those weeks could have saved many, many lives. The disgrace is Trump’s.

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Dr. Craig Spencer, the director of Global Health in Emergency Medicine at Columbia University, defend[ed] his colleagues on Sunday night.

This is where we are. Sad.

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So Columbia University is " “playing right to their little group of people that tell them what to do.” says the stable genius. And just who, pray tell, is in this little group ? I’m sure Full Measure host Sharyl Attkisson is bound to have asked that in a follow up question. But it’s bound to be that same shadowy group that burned down the Reichstag.

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He’s just doing damage control. Think of how many Trump University graduates are going to decide not to pursue their graduate studies at Columbia now that their wise Leader has exposed this fake study! Everyone at Columbia is clearly shaking in their boots.

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FWIW, the study implies that Cuomo and deBlasio should also have acted sooner. Pretty much everyone except Inslee and Newsome and the local officials in Seattle and the Bay Area were late.
But Trump is too dumb to get that…

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Bill and Hillary, George Soros and Susan Rice for sure. Greta Thunberg, a definite maybe.

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Fat slobs have to be fat and slobby.

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Here’s the thing that Trump wants:

He wants support by his Propaganda Machine and Lie Manufacturers. It’s never Trump alone.

Historian John Keegan describes a person of influence on Trump (paraphrase):

On around 10 May 1941, the German war vessel Bismarck was lost. Hitler was distraught, but knew that that information could be re-presented to the general public by his propaganda machine as an “epic”.

Keegan’s narrative was written in 1989. He was then talking about a Regime.

Like we have now.

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