Scott Atlas apologizes for interview with Kremlin-backed RT

[Galraedia]

Source: Politico

Scott Atlas, a White House policy adviser on the coronavirus, apologized on Sunday for “allowing myself to be taken advantage of” by a Russian media outlet backed by the Kremlin.

Atlas said he spoke to RT without realizing the company’s foreign ties.

“I recently did an interview with RT and was unaware they are a registered foreign agent,” tweeted Atlas, a neuroradiologist who joined the White House in August. “I regret doing the interview and apologize for allowing myself to be taken advantage of. I especially apologize to the national security community who is working hard to defend us.”

The Foreign Agents Registration Act “requires certain agents of foreign principals who are engaged in political activities or other activities … to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal, as well as activities, receipts and disbursements in support of those activities,” according to the Justice Department.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/01/scott-atlas-apologizes-interview-kremlin-433795

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[Faux pas]

1. Yeah sure ya betcha...

just another lying liar.

[RockRaven]

2. I do not accept this apology. I also do not accept that this apology is genuine.

He can go fuck his traitorous self.

[Sierra89]

3. Dr. Atlas?

More like Dr. Unqualified. On many levels.

2 Days.

[dobleremolque]

4. How could he possibly have known that an outfit

named RUSSIA TODAY!!!!! was a foreign entity? Hmmmmm?

[soothsayer]

5. Let's see. WH totally controls where fauci speaks. So... blessed this?

[Midnight Writer]

6. This guy is a conservative media pro. He knows all the players and he knows exactly what RT is.

[Lonestarblue]

7. He's a doofus ifnhe thinks people will believe that excuse.

Oh yeah, he works for Trump. That automatically makes him a doofus (my clean version of what he really is).

[abqtommy]

8. Oh Scott just shut the fuck up and GO. AWAY!

[soothsayer]

9. So far I know way more about coranavirus and RT than this idiot

Great people

[TNNurse]

11. He is too stupid to go outside the house without a chaperone.

If we are to believe this.

[AZ8theist]

13. Apparently, he's too stupid to tie his own shoes....

[aggiesal]

12. Whew! Good thing Pendejo45 hires all the best people ...

because this could have turned into a disaster!

Wait, did I say that out loud?

[BHDem53]

14. I think

Atlas needs a map.

[NurseJackie]

15. I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so...

[70sEraVet]

16. I can't stomach his interview

I tried listening to it (not hard to find). He starts off talking about the 230,000 lives lost from the virus, and the "many, many lives lost from the policy of shutdowns".

[appmanga]

17. All you need to know about the hard work this guy is supposed to be doing...

...is to look at his tan and then try to find Dr. Fauci's.

[struggle4progress]

18. "Golly gee whizz! I really had no idea I'm a Russian stooge!"

[Vogon_Glory]

19. You know, Scott, back during the Cold War there were a couple of terms for you

One was "useful idiot," the other was "tool of the Kremlin," and back in the day, when Republicans were serious about such things, both were very bad things to be.

And as much as your boss and other Putin-lovers may wish that such sentiments would just go away, there are millions of us across the political spectrum that thing that being a "useful idiot" is a very bad thing to be.