Coronavirus Whistleblower Complaint Suggests Trump Admin. Putting Politics Above Science | MSNBC

Ousted federal health official Dr. Rick Bright alleges in a whistleblower complaint that the Trump administration prioritized giving business to Trump allies instead of developing scientifically approved treatments for coronavirus. Aired on 5/05/2020.
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Coronavirus Whistleblower Complaint Suggests Trump Admin. Putting Politics Above Science | MSNBC

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    1. MeanGeneSanDiego Maybe for the fact that his lack of response to the pandemic killed thousands of Americans.

    2. Voice of Reason ok hotshot, name me a country that is doing better than ours and has just as many people? Also, what would you have done differently and also name me a democrat that was sounding the alarms? I’ll wait

    3. Voice of Reason see, got you! You don’t have any comeback. You come back with a small country that is poor that doesn’t even come close to our travel. Try again! See, you guys have no comeback for that. Tighten up

    4. Voice of Reason try again, a country that is about our size? You don’t have one.fact is, the whole world is going through exactly what we are going through except Taiwan and South Korea. Also, I try a second time. What democrat was sounding the horn about this virus? Come back if you want more schooling

    1. David Patton Today is SPiT ON A MAGA DAY! Great fun to watch MAGA gasp for breath on a ventilator. Just remember, it’s only a hoax! HAHHAHAHAHAHAH

    2. @BlackStorm66 So not the doctors and scientists? Have fun with your herbal remedies and prayer i guess, because most doctors are very much leftist and absolutely despise Trump right now. As a training epidemiologist, I know I do.

    3. @Kiiwi 4 Assuming but believing it as factual is lying to yourself. I am neither of those you made me to be. Good try though, however I am about facts and real life. Also, you are assuming once again about doctors and scientists.

  1. No surprise here, we all knew something like this was coming, with such an emphasis on scamming this country for every penny.

    1. Like what the fact news putting out a guy like this N to try help promote its goal smh since the real whistle blowers have been on internet exposing the real they send out their own patszie

  2. Trump losing, allies changing… not less not more. So, don’t think your lives matter for all of them.

  3. Wonder who authorise the payment of the 26M doses of Hydroxy-Chloroquine that the government is holding on now ?

    1. @takao robinson – It shocks me that they make these quarter million collar scanning machines which only allow them to avoid being sued for misdiagnosing you but they charge the mcdonalds worker half a years salary like he has the responsibility to pay for it like it is a toll bridge in the country with the higest cost medical in the world.

    2. @etienne zhou I would if I were to be sick. Karen Whitsett had to beg for hydroxychloriquine

    3. Chloroquine doesn’t work. You’d be worse off if you took it with covid-19 than if you didn’t. It was an irresponsible crapshoot by the current admin.

  4. “We’re doing very well, all the deaths are rising so it’s pretty good…we’re still pretty low at 70,000…i think if it’s 200,000 that’s about right…Right now we’ll focus on opening the state – everybody loves being infected..they are thankful to me…I did much better than Loser Obama..Tremendous success that our deaths are still so low!”

    1. GhostKarrde16 it’s selfish to want people to lose their jobs and not be able to feed their families over a virus that has a minuscule chance of killing you

    2. @t mcgee it is when the deaths is not you or your love ones. Calling it miniscule is an insult to the dead love ones and their families. In the whole world. Not only America but the whole world.
      We have also slowly opened up here in Australia too but cautiously and responsibly. But then again we always had government welfare and health care system, not perfect but has alleviated some of the anxieties of Australians. Here at least we do what’s best for everyone not just individuals. When you start thinking you are the only one who has a problem and don’t give a crap about others as long your needs are met first. Yes that’s selfishness.

    3. GhostKarrde16 If you’re afraid then YOU stay home. It’s unheard of to quarantine the sick so don’t give me your hysterical nonsense. If this were as deadly as they say it is then they wouldn’t have to artificially inflate they numbers. They are labeling literally everything as a covid19 death, which they ADMIT to btw.
      Meaning they aren’t making a distinction between those dying from the virus or with the virus. Again, they admit to this.

      If you die in a car accident and happen to test positive for covid19, they count that as a covid19 death. Yet, hysterical idiots like you think it’s worth collapsing the economy over this.

      How dare you tell parents they have to wait in lines at the food bank to feed their children because you’re a hysterical moron who’s brainwashed by fear mongering.

    4. @t mcgee I’m not hysterical I’m Australian. We have it tough too but as not tough as you in America. Inflated or not does not change your covid death numbers still higher than ours HERE IN AUSTRALIA.

    5. GhostKarrde16 lol actually it does. There’s a .03 chance of this killing you. Quit your hysteria

    1. @123geterdone So sorry, didn’t mean to trigger any of Donnie’s little tRumpturds.

    2. @Richard Alexander I guess that method works or at least you think it does, because you continue to use it. Triggered? not so much. Surprised that there are “men” that go around the internet disrespecting people, to win arguments, sure. Honestly, sounds a lot like someone who doesn’t have an argument. Trump will win in 2020. Bet your bottom dollar.

    3. @123geterdone Facts like 80 thousand dead, when Disinfectant Donnie said there were 15 cases, going to zero, and they had it “totally under control”?

    4. ​@Richard Alexander https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/

      1Deaths with confirmed or presumed COVID-19, coded to ICD–10 code U07.11

      Even with “presumed” deaths, the number is only 47k.

      Even with a two week lag, are you expecting this number to double in two weeks? OMG, it took from Jan 15 to May 2 to reach 47k, but over the last two weeks the number has doubled. Extrapolate that and everyone in the US will be dead in a little over 6 months.

      Use real data Richard.

      https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1258053844812120066

      Fake lines for testing, fake test results.

      Paw paw tested positive

      How many of those 47k would have tested positive if they were simply paw paws?

  5. Can we stop with words like “suggests” andcall it what it is and be done with it .no need to sugar coat it .

  6. I’m enjoying these comments from a news agency that one can’t even get a souvenir anywhere in NYC. #WalkAway

  7. 2 whistleblowers and one presidency term and people get locked up around you……. The worst president ever

    1. @lance miller: do you, read your, Bible at all? Nothing wrong with protecting and taking care of our Earth and protecting it because when we protect it we are protecting ourselves…. GOD Almighty; didn’t give Us this Earth to pollute and destroy he gave it to Us to protect and care for it….. We will reap what we sow and God created this Earth just as he created the whole solar system…. GOD is going to Humble and Abase Donald J Trump Mark my Word’s watch it happen with your own eye’s Mark My word’s….

    1. @HumbleClay _ If you’re a Trump supporter, you really have no right calling anyone “sheep”

    2. @mars base Again you are assuming. And again, you are wrong. Come back when you have a mature opinion.

    3. @tc1uscg

      There’s no HOPE. The entire US Governmental System is beyond corrupt. They all believe they own us like cattle or better yet sheep.

    1. @David Doran – your latest post makes no more sense than the previous one. discover what, moron??

    2. @David Doran – It is SO sad that you are too ignorant to come up with an intelligent, mature response.

    1. Lol!! I guess Gilead’s drug that is pathetic but costs $1000 per dose is so much better? Guess Fauci and people at the FDA pushing something that lines their pockets and isn’t really that effective is so much better?

    1. @Bill T Marchi …. 😂 Good racist. U did well 👍🏾. Chimed in as a cowardly troll and did NOT Disappoint lmao. Nothing more funny than you Trump dummies calling us ignorant. Priceless! Lmfao😂. Effing love you dumb hicks. Entertainment value is through the roof!

    2. Bill T Marchi having his credibility as a medical professional ruined because of politics and this current administration’s ignorance.

    3. @Bill T Marchi …. Hey! You’re still calling people dumb huh 🤔😆…. You may wanna stop using that as an attack lol. I mean you’re a Trump loving racist correct??? Yeah, gtfoh as a whole dummy calling people what you literally are! Projecting 101 smh. Unreal yet still gut busting. We read the comments from you hicks and the tears roll! Ignorant is NOT the new cool 😂

  8. I Know for a fact that someone from the future told our government this would happen and they didn’t listen….lol

    1. @Mark Larson I’m glad someone else knows. I have a special ability to see things from a different angles.

  9. This passage reminds us to not let our hearts be troubled for the Lord Jesus is with us always and will never leave us. Let us choose Jesus in our life everyday even when we go through struggles. 🙏

    John ch 14 1-10
    1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, beloved also in me.
    2 In my father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go and prepare a place for you.
    3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye May be also.
    4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
    5 Thomas said unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
    6 Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
    7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
    8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
    9 Jesus said unto him, Have I been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
    10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth the works.

  10. He used a deadly pandemic to make money instead of save lives. Yes, that’s the president you protected, senators, when you refused to impeach ‘resident’ Trump.

  11. MSNBC be like: “Hey let’s politicize this so we can point fingers at Trump and say he’s the one politicizing things.”

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