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@Acyn
The President lashes out at John Roberts from Fox News for asking about the pandemic team. He asks Roberts if hes working for CNN
Link to tweet
We didnt do that. That turned out to be a false story, said Trump. (It is not a false story.) Now youre starting to go are you working for CNN?
Im pointing out what they have said and what you have said, thats all, said Roberts.
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Fox isnt so easy either, dont kid yourself, whined Trump. Look, John, let me tell you something. You know thats a false story. What you just said is a false story, this doctor knows it better than anybody you shouldnt be repeating a story that you know is false.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trump-blows-up-at-fox-news-reporter-for-asking-him-about-disbanding-pandemic-team/
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)n/t
leftieNanner
(15,124 posts)I know that he lies. I know that he gaslights. But SHIT! This is absurd.
And now his zombie followers will repeat it and it will become true.
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)Fox is clearly not quite loyal enough now, the station has clipped the wings of a couple of talking heads who parroted the cheap thug's line regarding the plague he nurtured in his ignorant pride and indifference to human life and suffering.
But not to worry. Like a shark's tooth growing into the gap, One America News is already being groomed to be the favored outlet of maggots everywhere.
thegoose
(3,115 posts)Look where the fuck we are!!!! Someone needs to finalize this shit.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)It had to be one of his "very best people" he brought on board. Trump handles the gaslighting part.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)because they should know by now that is IS going to happen. He is going to spew lies...they have to be able to back up their facts.
I wonder how these journalists feel about being called liars.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)The NSC directorate for global health and security and bio-defense survived the transition from President Barack Obama to Trump in 2017.
Trumps elimination of the office suggested, along with his proposed budget cuts for the CDC, that he did not see the threat of pandemics in the same way that many experts in the field did.
One year later I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19, Beth Cameron, the first director of the unit, wrote in an op-ed Friday in The Washington Post.
She said the directorate was set up to be the smoke alarm and get ahead of emergencies and sound a warning at the earliest sign of fire all with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm fire.
Its impossible to assess the impact of the 2018 decision to disband the unit, she said. Cameron noted that biological experts remain at the White House, but she says its clear that eliminating the office contributed to what she called a sluggish domestic response. She said that shortly before Trump took office, the unit was watching a rising number of cases in China of a deadly strain of the flu and a yellow fever outbreak in Angola.
Its unclear whether the decision to disband the directorate, which was made in May 2018, after John Bolton became national security adviser, was a tactical move to downgrade the issue or whether it was part of the White Houses interest in simplifying and shrinking the National Security Council staff, Cameron says.
procon
(15,805 posts)and long enough it will come true. Now if only he could find his ruby slippers before the flying monkeys eat them.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)Mr Trump said of the pandemic team that some of the people weve cut they havent been used for many, many years and if we ever need them we can get them very quickly and rather then spending the money.
Im a business person, I dont like having thousands of people around when you dont need them, he added.
bdamomma
(63,875 posts)Department there were witnesses to this. And also in 2017 during the transition the tRump jerks were briefed on situation of such a virus and what steps to take. Wilbur Ross was asleep and Betsy DeVos was complaining saying why am I here??? if anyone listens to Randi Rhodes show she has explained the whole thing.
This could have been prevented but wasn't, because we have a con man in office. Who blames others and makes himself a victim. We are Puerto Rico.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)dhill926
(16,346 posts)"You lie!"
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)I guess "This one goes to eleven".