During his visit to the National Institutes of Health on Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump touted the apparently excellent relationship he now has with Taliban co-founder and deputy Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, with whom he’d spoken on the phone several hours earlier.
For Trump, having a deal go south like the Taliban deal is normal, all he wanted was the headline that he can tout to his base going forward, it’s irrelevant if the deal works or is good for the American people.
Timothy Stenzel, who is the director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health, was made to wait overnight on the weekend of Feb. 22 — as senior health department officials negotiated his access in a series of calls — before Centers for Disease Control granted him permission to be on campus. Stenzel’s visit had been expected, the individuals said.
Stenzel later found evidence of lab contamination, which he reported to HHS officials and may have contributed to the coronavirus lab-test delays and other problems.
I consider CDC leadership to be corrupted until proven otherwise.
Poor Jesus. After all these centuries he falls into the disgrace of having his name linked to Current Occupant. What worse fate could befall some one of his ilk?
Of course everything has to be the biggest, the best, the yuuugest. No other world leader has a relationship with the mullah like Donald Trump’s relationship with the mullah.
To say something like “these are bad people but this is a stupid war we can’t win” simply wouldn’t do.
Trump said that the U.S. and the terrorist organization “all have a very common interest” because “we’re looking to get this ended.”
That “very common interest” is apparently fucking over the democratically elected (flawed, to be sure, but we’re hardly in a position to cast stones nowadays) government of Afghanistan, who were not consulted at all in our oh-so-great peace deal.