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https://news.yahoo.com/trump-didn-t-azar-warnings-080620165.htmlThe more we learn about what went on behind the scenes during the critical early days of the coronavirus pandemic, the more Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar had emerged as a rare and unlikely hero pushing the White House for an early response.
Speaking truth to power has its price in the Trump administration. The former Eli Lilly executive was shouted down by White House aides as alarmist and sidelined by Jared Kushner, Mike Pence and others willing to give the president a more rosy view. And on Sunday night, Trump lashed out at Azar by name for the first time, following a New York Times report that Azar had directly warned Mr. Trump of the possibility of a pandemic during a call on Jan. 30, the second warning he delivered to the president about the virus in two weeks.
House, Azar's future is uncertain but his attempts to get top officials and President Trump to pay attention to the coming pandemic should not be lost in the fog of war as Trump recasts history in his favor.
Almost every Democrat voted against Azars confirmation as health secretary in January 2018. As the president of the U.S. division of Eli Lilly, he had approved the tripling of the price of insulin and spoken out against the Affordable Care Act, insisting the free market should handle health care.
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WVreaper
(620 posts)sop
(10,150 posts)into abject submission. Does Trump order the secret service to put a gun to their heads while making them offers they can't refuse? Are their wives and children threatened by his associates in the Russian mob? Does he pull out a bone saw and mention Khashoggi and MbS? Does Trump's power over them involve Kompromat? Polonium?
I would really like to understand why so many of his inner circle are so afraid of this POS.
I would really like to understand why so many of his inner circle are so afraid of this POS
ooky
(8,922 posts)out back and shot.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)to begin with? People he knows have a subservient nature. Or maybe a "chain of command" adherent? I know people like the latter in business. They don't question the people up the chain. It's not their role, not in their scope.
I've said this before, and I may be in the minority but don't like or trust Fauci.
sop
(10,150 posts)been sane. Not one of his previous bosses has so completely politicized a deadly pandemic, ignored and denied scientific and medical reality, and lied to the American public like Trump has. Fauci strikes me as a smart, competent, reasonable man, but he's a career government bureaucrat, not cut out to deal with a malevolent clown like Trump.
The expression on Fauci's face and his body language as Trump ordered him to the podium to issue his "clarification" was frightening. It was a mixture of fear, resignation and professional embarrassment. Fauci probably convinced himself he was just being a good soldier, helping to save lives, but one could see his heart wasn't into it.
Trump completely wears people out. That seems to be his gift. He has some sort of strange power over those who come into his orbit. Decorated generals and powerful CEOs cower and submit to this despicable POS. People act like he's a live grenade, ready to explode and take out everyone within a certain radius. I'd like to understand what makes intelligent, accomplished people act this way.
Nancy Pelosi seems to be the only one in DC immune to his bullshit. I think she should write the book about Trump.
dalton99a
(81,440 posts)Azar is not a good or decent person, which is why Trump nominated him to run HHS
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)this is spot on.
they are all evil incarnate.