General Trump Administration F**kery Thread

[Blackfyre]

@kylegriffin1
Breaking via NYT: Trump administration officials are telling members of the coronavirus task force that the White House plans to wind down the operation and it's not clear whether any other group might replace it. Coronavirus Live Updates: As Threat of Virus Persists, Trump Administration Signals It Will Wind Down Task Force …

 

[Blackfyre]

@kaitlancollins
Dr. Rick Bright, the ousted director of the office involved in developing a coronavirus vaccine, formally filed an extensive whistleblower complaint today alleging his early warnings about the coronavirus were ignored. @Kevinliptakcnn @JDiamond1 Ousted vaccine director files whistleblower complaint alleging coronavirus warnings were ignored - CNNPolitics …

 

[Blackfyre]

@kaitlancollins
Rick Bright will testify on Capitol Hill next Thursday, his lawyers just said.
16:11 - 5 May 2020

 

[Hood Critic]

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

Agent Orange spilled the beans.

 

[Blackfyre]

@jodikantor
https://twitter.com/jodikantor/status/1257862914276548608

NEW from me & colleagues: Jared Kushner put bewildered 20-something volunteers with no disaster or medical experience at the forefront of PPE sourcing. The result: “bureaucratic cycles of chaos,” according to one who became a whistleblower.https://nyti.ms/3b6WY5M

22:41 - 5 May 2020

 

[Blackfyre]

Pompeo today: "We don't have certainty about whether it began in the lab or whether it began someplace else." This after he said there was "enormous evidence" that the novel coroanvirus originated in the Wuhan lab over the weekend.
10:29 - 6 May 2020

 

[Blackfyre]

@rebeccaballhaus
Trump twice declined suggestions from his team in January to press Xi for more transparency about coronavirus’s causes and symptoms, in one case saying that the criticism could cause Beijing to be less helpful. Coronavirus Casts Deep Chill Over U.S.-China Relations …

 

[Blackfyre]

@thedailybeast
President Trump still wants his wall at the southern border painted black—which is estimated to cost an eye-popping $500 million or more, according to a reporthttps://trib.al/L0knuzW

 

[Blackfyre]

@mkraju
Sen. Susan Collins, a member of Senate Intelligence, told me she will back John Ratcliffe's nomination to be Director of National Intelligence, all-but ensuring he has enough votes to advance

Collins signaled she‘d likely support him when she praised him in a statement on Friday
13:31 - 6 May 2020

 

[Blackfyre]

@axios
NEW: Trump has complained to advisers about the way coronavirus deaths are being calculated, suggesting the real numbers are actually lower — and a number of his senior aides share this view, according to sources with direct knowledge.Trump and some top aides question accuracy of coronavirus death toll …

 

[Blackfyre]

@ShimonPro
So the reason President Trump says he kept the task force was because he didn’t realize how popular it was
14:02 - 6 May 2020

 

[Blackfyre]

@meridithmcgraw
A nurse standing in the Oval said that PPE has been "sporadic"

President Trump chimed in, "sporadic for you but not sporadic for a lot of other people."
14:20 - 6 May 2020

 

[Blackfyre]

President Trump said that the American people needed to be “warriors” when asked if the nation needs to accept more casualties Trump Says Nation Needs to Accept More Deaths: ‘We Have to Be Warriors’

 

[AZBeauty]

Eh, she said said no, across the board. I hate how he cuts people off and hijacks the conversation to slant it towards making him looking more positive.