The official who led the Trump administration’s coronavirus testing efforts on Tuesday rejected the notion that health experts are lying afterward. President Trump
Donald John TrumpWayfair refutes QAnon-like conspiracy theory that he is trafficking children Stone criticizes the US justice system in the first television interview since Trump commuted his sentence The federal appeals court rules that the Trump administrator cannot withhold the federal grants from California sanctuary cities MORE He retweeted a Twitter post saying that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and others were spreading falsehoods about the virus.
“Occasionally we can make mistakes based on the information we have, but none of us lie,” Admiral Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for Health and Human Services, said on NBC’s “Today”. “We are completely transparent with the American people, and my experience in the working group is that the vice president and everyone else has been completely transparent.”
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Giroir’s comments came a day after Trump retweeted a series of Twitter posts by former game host Chuck Woolery about the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. that the CDC, the media, Democrats and some Doctors were among those who spread them.
The tweet served as Trump’s last resort publicly breaking up with his own top health officials amid the global pandemic, which has infected more than 3 million people in the U.S. and accounted for more than 135,000 deaths.
Giroir said he doesn’t spend much time looking at Twitter “because who knows what it means and how it is interpreted?” But he emphasized that the White House coronavirus workforce has been transparent about every element of the outbreak.
“That is my job as a public servant. We take it as a sacred oath, to be honest and to let the American people know what is going on,” he said.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said at a press conference Monday that Trump still has confidence in the CDC, adding that his retweet was directed at “rebel individuals” within the agency. She noted the CDC documents that were leaked before they were finalized, alleging that the president believes such an action “misleads the American public.”
“The notion of the tweet was to point out the fact that when we use science, we have to use it in a way that is not political,” added McEnany.
The Trump administration also appears to be intensifying its efforts to reject the guidance offered by Anthony Fauci
Anthony FauciTexas Democrat Proposes Legislation Requiring Masks At Federal Facilities Night Health Care: White House Goes Public With Attacks On Fauci | Newsom Orders California to Close Indoor Activities, All Bar Operations | Federal judges block abortion ban laws in Tennessee, Georgia Biden campaign criticizes White House attacks on Fauci as ‘disgusting’ MORE, a leading infectious disease expert who has become one of the faces of the American response to the pandemic. Over the weekend, officials distributed to multiple media a list of what they said were inaccurate statements Fauci made in the midst of the health crisis.
Disagreements between the Trump administration and health experts have widened this month as the president and other officials push for the reopening of in-person classes at schools in the fall. Trump complained last week that the CDC’s initial guidelines for reopening schools were too “harsh and expensive.”
While appearing on “Meet the Press,” Giroir also said Fauci’s health recommendations were “not 100 percent correct.”
“I highly respect Dr. Fauci, but Dr. Fauci is not 100 percent right, nor does he necessarily have, and he admits, having all national interest in mind. He looks at it from very limited public health. Point of view “, said.
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