Wait?
Is this FOR REAL?
The RightWingNuts see a virus sweeping the planet as an action solely against THEIR guy ONLY?????
An expansive inside way to get Donald Trump out of office…
(They could right about him going down in flames because of this)
I mentioned here that I believed whoever ar the C.D.C. that was an ‘expert’ would come under attack for disputing Donald Trump….
That IS what this IS about…
Another effort to change reality to fit Trump’s political agenda…
Some supporters of President Donald Trump see a threat bigger than the spread of a highly contagious novel coronavirus: a conspiracy by deep state actors to use the virus against the president.
One key piece of evidence fueling their theory: An official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention making public statements on the outbreak is the sister of Rod Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general who oversaw the Mueller probe and, according to a disputed report, once discussed removing Trump from office.
Dr. Nancy Messonnier, head of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases — who got a shoutout from her brother for attending his 2017 confirmation hearing — warned Americans in a Tuesday media briefing that an outbreak in the U.S. is inevitable.
Messonnier’s comments got widespread attention, sparking calls for further actions by the administration, which had long struck a more reassuring note. The furor appeared to catch Trump flat-footed while en route back from his summit with the Indian prime minister, during which he had declared the outbreak “very well under control.”
The likes of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh and Jim Hoft, publisher of the Gateway Pundit, a conspiratorial, pro-Trump site, have seized on the sibling connection, as have a large number of anonymous Twitter accounts.
“Rod Rosenstein as we all know definitely worked to undermine the Trump administration, which is oddly exactly what his sister is doing by undermining the more logical and calm message the president’s team has issued on the virus,” conservative pundit Wayne Dupree charged in a Wednesday blog post.
Global financial markets have been sliding for several days over concerns about the fallout from the virus, a trend that threatens Trump’s rosy economic message as well as his political future.
Yet there is no evidence that federal health authorities are overstating the threat of coronavirus to prosecute a political vendetta against Trump, and some conservatives — even as they praised the administration’s response — rushed to defend Messonnier…..
The NeverTrumpers cooked it up in some lab.
A co-worker yesterday was arguing that she thought the virus was a biological weapon that got out of the lab.
No doubt Z….
Like the ones I work with that think Bernie Sanders is a Communist…
NY Times…
Government health officials and scientists will have to clear statements about the coronavirus outbreak with the office of Vice President Mike Pence, in an effort to tighten the White House’s control of messaging about the virus
If they cancel Spring Break for rich white kids, this could have dire consequences.
Pence better look out.
Trump might be setting him up.
If this thing gets serious,Trump will blame him ,turn his cult against him and drop him from the ticket.
Yup…..
I ‘m of the view that Donald Trump is incapable of handling this ….
The ‘experts’ will have report thru Trump’s prism….
Heck of a job, Pencey.
And in another bad sign for Pence,
Trump said that the reason he placed Pence in charge was that he”had nothng else to do.”
Trump fired the CDC pandemic response team in 2018 to cut costs.
You know because Trump Republicans are all about balancing the budget!
Of course Trump is setting Pence up it the event something goes wrong.
Off hand, I can’t think of one instance in which Trump accepted responsibility for something that went wrong in even a single instance – no matter how minor.