White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows asserted on Thursday morning that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield didn’t have his facts straight when he told Congress that a COVID-19 vaccine wouldn’t be widely available until 2021, contradicting President Donald Trump’s insistence that the vaccine would be ready in October.
Great. ANOTHER non-scientist that knows how vaccines work. And they WONDER why nobody is ‘excited’ about sticking their arm out…
Meadows is telling the truth because, “the process” he is referring to is the desperate one being run by trumpers to get donnie reelected
Translation:
Trump IS the process.
Why in the hell are the tax payers protecting Trump from this virus?
It is not surprising that Redfield did not have access to those closest to the process. They are all sequestered in the office of the Insider Trading in Pharmaceuticals Stocks Task Force, which is kept locked.
We’re supposed to believe that Trump has a better grasp of the progress of clinical trials than the MD who heads CDC. Ok, and I also believe that Trump had an awesome health care plan in his back pocket at the Town Hall, and the only reason he wouldn’t show it is that Stephanopolous is such a weenie.
As James Fallows repeated the other day, the media has not risen to the task of reporting on Trump. Meadows is not “spinning”; he’s telling an obvious, palpable lie, with grave consequences for the public interest. But the media reports it in the usual traditional frame, granting at least a likelihood of plausibility where there is only rank, bad faith dishonesty.
One of the weaknesses of this Administration is that they can’t just leave well enough alone. They could have just moved on, waiting for the next idiocy to drop. But no, the need to “win” every conflict keeps this in the headlines for another day.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
sPACE fORCE!
The U.S. is on pace to land a person on Mars before the end of Trump’s 4th term.
“And who exactly is involved in the process?”
“If you really want to know you’ll have to join us here at The White House.”
When the hosts of “Fox and Friends” asked who was correct, Meadows claimed it was Trump “based on what I know behind the scenes, how quickly we’re moving on the clinical trials.”
“I think that we’ll at least have some results in October,” the White House senior official said. “And as we start to look at those results, I can tell you the President is pushing very hard to make sure that we’re delivering a vaccine before the end of the year.”
“So I’m not sure where Dr. Redfield got his particular timetable, but it’s not based on those that are closest to the process,” he added.
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Meadows: CDC Chief’s 2021 Vaccine Timeline ‘Not Based’ On Info From Those ‘Closest To The [Propaganda] Process’
And not in two weeks?
Beats me.
“So I’m not sure where Dr. Redfield got his particular timetable, but it’s not based on those that are closest to the process,”
So, let me get this straight: the head of the Center for Disease Control is not one of those closest to the process…
…who, I assume, are the same people who are working on the healthcare plan for which we have have been repeatedly assured over, what? two years or more? will be arriving in two weeks.
Yeah, I’m not putting money on this.
He’s the 45th President of the United States.
I’ve got another speech bubble for that photo of Meadows for this article:
“I’m lying. You know I’m lying. I know I’m lying. I don’t give a fuck”
Good to know that the head of the Centers for Disease Control is not “close[est] to the process” of approving/distributing vaccines. Meadows is as full of crap as his boss.