Why Trump’s Pressure Campaign On The FDA Will Damage Any COVID-19 Vaccine To Come | Talking Points Memo

President Trump’s pressure campaign to get the Food and Drug Administration to approve a vaccine before Election Day has likely already damaged public confidence in what may be the most effective tool to fight COVID-19, epidemiologists say.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1328155

I recall Dr. Fauci saying two things with regards to vaccine… efficacy and safety!

Truth be told, neither of those words matter to Covidiot Trump
All that matters to him now is to get himself re-elected…
Because jail, power and lining his and his cronies’ pockets!

Despite 57% of his despicable base finding it acceptable to have more than 175k Covid death toll, Covidiot Trump has no credibility due to his quackeries ie injecting bleach or hydroxychloroquine,

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Trump is the grown up version of the boy who rips wings off flies. He is ultimately nothing but a force for destruction.

We can’t be rid of him soon enough.

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Warped speed, duct tape and bubble gum vaccine, recklessly expedited to keep someone and his family from prison?

Respectfully, no thanks.

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Why Trump’s Pressure to Corrupt a Public Safety Agency May Undermine Confidence in Public Safety

I mean, does anyone really need that explained?

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Dr. Marks is the one to watch. He is as respected in the medical world as Fauci. If he resigns, run for the hills.

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Shitgibbon is simply a shitty version of King Midas. Everything he touches turns to shit.

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That is exactly why Dr, Marks issued the statement.

So who does Trump think will be rushing for the vaccine if politics not science play into its release? Not his cult followers who are conditioned to be “anti-vaccers” and most certainly not anyone with a brain.

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I used to think it was a passive thing, but it’s pretty clear now that if there’s no profit to be had in something, he wants to leave a pile of smoking rubble behind.

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For someone who wants to win the election, he is pretty successful at turning groups against him. The medical community is probably not happy with him already, but he is making it worse. I guess he is tired of winning and wants to lose.

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Trump is fighting for his legal life here, and he will not be deterred from doing whatever he thinks will help him - anything. There are no limits - nothing is sacred, nothing is too important to screw up if he thinks it will help him. His latest slander of the FDA and science is just the latest corpse along the road to freedom from indictment for another 4 years.

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Russia and China are already starting mass inoculation programs with their ‘approved’ vaccines.

Which basically means that they are doing their Phase III trials on the general population.

And I am sure that Donnie’s impatience comes from not being able to cut those kinds of corners.

You can just imagine Putin taunting him in their phone calls.

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This is a continuation of the “tell as many different lies about the same thing as you can and let the cults choose their favorites.”

COVID will go away the day after the election plays to some.
I personally secured a vaccine plays to some.
Vaccines are deep state conspiracies plays to some.
Kids are safe from it plays to some.
I know best about cures plays to some.
It’s all a hoax plays to some.

Trump will tweet them all in the same day - that’s his brand: distrust, fear, and chaos all for power and money.

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Midas touch in reverse: Everything he touches turns to shit.

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Nobody in the rest of the world will ever take it. And there is every reason in the world for us to reject anything that has Jared’s fingerprints on it much less a name like Warped Speed.

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King Mierdas (Spanish for shit)

King Midas in reverse (apologies to Graham Nash & the Hollies)

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Deutsche Bank has already flipped on Eric. It’s only a matter of time before the NY prosecutors have evidence of Don Jr.'s signature on a falsified tax return. One must be careful when filing so many tax returns in so many states and countries that they all match.

Banks are obligated to provide ALL the correct numbers…not that the Russian banks would cooperate. But then we would know Donald is owned by them if they wouldn’t.

One has to wonder if The Honorable Ivanka was smart enough to keep her signature off any documents regarding The Trump Organization’s profits and losses.

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Just how do you Make America Great Again by destroying all the things that made it great. Public education…in the works to be killed by DeVoss. DeJoy has the Post office on the ropes and now its CDC and FDA. Two agencies created to do exactly the opposite of what Trump is asking of them.

My Grandmother used to say…“a duck thinks everyone has webbed feet”. Her point was that what you do and say about others is a reflection of your perceptions of them filtered through your id. “Obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer until after November 3rd” says Trump. That’s because he sees a vaccine and the election as related. If he can get one out prior to Nov. 3 he can claim to be a savior…and that might help his electoral chances. So to him everyone sees it like that. Everyone’s actions are driven by their selfish wants.

All of the FDA and CDC should threaten to haul ass if he keeps up this heat.

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Merde’s touch

The boost he is giving to the nutbar antivax movement because of this. People will be dying of tetanus when the fallout is done.

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