Verma Dodges Basic COVID Questions, Praises Trump’s ‘Bold and Decisive Action’ | Talking Points Memo

Over and over again Thursday night, the Trump administration official in charge of Medicare and Medicaid refused to say whether she was confident the U.S. health care system could handle the COVID-19 outbreak.


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This lady is so full of shit. Can’t even answer Fox News’ softball questions with a straight face. Disgusting.

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Just the same dumb totalitarian machine at work in the US as in China.

Nobody wants to give the boss bad news, so we all have to die while they spout crap to keep them in jobs we pay them to do while they don’t.

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It’s a Trump thing, you wouldn’t understand…

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If they can dodge a wrench, they can dodge a virus.

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Yes, and always has been.

Are we watching her terminate her career in “public service”? I hope so.

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tfw you can’t even navigate a fox interview…

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trump will fire her. Even though she threw roses at trump she forgot to blame Obama

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In fairness, the questioning wasn’t soft. It was extremely fact focused. Verma danced all around responding with direct factual answers.

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Heckuva job, Vermie.

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It’s hard to talk with Trump’s balls in your mouth

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In light of the cataclysmic Trump failures in so many matters, I can only pound my head on the desk…

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We really need to start throwing shoes at these people to make it clear that we’re not gonna take this kind of bullshit. Among the more memorable anti-Bush moments during the Iraq war.

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Reading this, I want to Vermit.

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And the answer is yes, we will at some point during this epidemic run out of hospital beds, ventilators and other resources.

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Right? Didn’t she get the memo, the only acceptable answer to “are there enough hospital beds?” Is “swine flu Obama seeee?”

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She is the perfect example of a Trump administration member - her ambition is more important than anything else in her life, and she will do and say anything to gain Donnie’s favor. Apparently the ongoing infighting between her and Azar is the stuff of legends and has been one of the factors that has frozen our ability to make a coherent response on a national level to the pandemic. If you lined up her public praise of Trump and alternated it with Azar’s pubic praise it would, indeed, make you want to Vermit.

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She’s not very good at this, is she?

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Interesting questions there, considering everyone knew the answers. The answers are 1) Verma wants to keep her job so she gets in line and quacks with the rest of Donnie’s ducks. Answer 2) There aren’t enough medical facilities and we gave the banksters another $1.5 Trillion that might have gone to helping the people get through this pandemic.

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Forget it, Jake. It’s Politicotown.

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