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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,338 posts)
Mon May 18, 2020, 03:36 PM May 2020

Senior CDC official rebukes White House trade adviser's criticism as tensions escalate

A senior official from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday offered a pointed rebuke of White House trade adviser Peter Navarro's scathing criticism of the top health agency in the latest sign of growing tension between the CDC and the White House.

"We should remind Mr. Navarro that the CDC is a federal agency part of the administration. The CDC director is an appointed position, and Dr. (Robert) Redfield was appointed by President (Donald) Trump," the official told CNN.

"If there is criticism of the CDC, ultimately Mr. Navarro is being critical of the President and the man who President Trump placed to lead the agency."

The comments come after Navarro slammed the CDC earlier Sunday, saying, "it let the country down" on testing during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/senior-cdc-official-rebukes-white-house-trade-advisers-criticism-as-tensions-escalate/ar-BB14dRjQ?li=BBnbcA1

Food fight!!!!!

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Senior CDC official rebukes White House trade adviser's criticism as tensions escalate (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 OP
The circular firing squad continues to shoot their own. SoonerPride May 2020 #1
Uh-oh. White house officials, like their boss, have no creative response to abqtommy May 2020 #2
Having domestic squabbles in public is so low class. Walleye May 2020 #3
This is the way trump is Andy823 May 2020 #4

Andy823

(11,495 posts)
4. This is the way trump is
Mon May 18, 2020, 03:56 PM
May 2020

He plays people against each other, blames others for his disastrous response to the pandemic, and will continue to blame everyone else he can instead of doing something about his screws ups.

A narcissist loves to have people fighting each other so they can come in and pretend to save the day with some new "false" line of BS. This will only get worse, and the only good thing is he will drag down the whole republican part with him since the majority of them in the House and Senate seem to be so compromised by him they have to continue to protect him so their dirty little secrets don't come out.

All I can say is the dirty secrets must be pretty bad!

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