Do you remember the “anonymous whistleblower that helped expose the high crimes and misdemeanors for which criminal Fuhrer Trump* escaped responsibility? Bought Bitch Midnight Moscow Mitch and the Senate Republicans violated their oath. Well, it’s whistleblower time again. This one is not anonymous, and the high crimes and misdemeanors are even worse.
[H]e was pressured to invest in drugs and vaccines that lacked scientific merit, because the people selling them had friends in the Trump administration, up to and including the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. He was forced to transfer funds to acquire drugs for the Strategic National Stockpile, America’s most important reserve of lifesaving medications, based not on health needs but on “political connections and cronyism.” He was instructed to use his department’s budget to purchase flu medications of questionable efficacy. And when the COVID-19 crisis erupted, he was pressured to approve a plan that would “flood” cities with unproven and untested doses of chloroquine drugs, from uninspected manufacturing plants in Asia. When his efforts to work through the system failed, he decided he had a “moral obligation to the American public” to ring the alarm about the plan, “which he believed constituted a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety.” In retaliation, he was “smeared,” with officials unfairly accusing him of dropping the ball on vaccine development and PPE preparation.
These are just some of the allegations contained in a blistering, 63-page complaint that Dr. Rick Bright, former head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), filed today with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. According to his lawyers, Bright will testify before Congress next week.
Vanity Fair has submitted requests for comment to the White House and the Food and Drug Administration, and will update this article with any responses. In a statement, Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Caitlin Oakley said: “Dr. Bright was transferred to NIH to work on diagnostics testing—critical to combatting COVID-19—where he has been entrusted to spend upwards of $1 billion to advance that effort. We are deeply disappointed that he has not shown up to work on behalf of the American people and lead on this critical endeavor.”
Bright has become the first high-level federal whistleblower to publicly allege that the Trump administration has responded to the COVID-19 crisis by unduly pressuring health officials, and putting politics and profit ahead of science. Bright, the government’s top coronavirus vaccine developer, had spent a decade at BARDA, a small but powerful agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), whose mandate is to partner with private companies to help accelerate the development of vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics. According to Bright’s complaint, BARDA manages almost $50 billion worth of contracts and acquisitions, on an annual budget of just over $1.5 billion. He was named director in 2016… [emphasis added]
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I strongly encourage you to click the link in the second paragraph and read the shocking complaint in it’s entirety.
Here’s some coverage from CNN.
Ousted vaccine director says pandemic warnings were ignored
In the criminal Fuhrer’s White House, as in the entire Republican Reich, truth telling is a capital offense.
White House coronavirus task force to be ‘phased down’ around Memorial Day
There are few things that the Republican Reich, especially criminal Fuhrer Trump* hate more than oversight. They fear that the next whistle blower will publicly expose it, when Republicans murder more and more Americans to reopen the economy for Trump’s* political ends.
MSNBC did a better job covering the actual corruption.
Coronavirus Whistleblower Complaint Suggests Trump Admin. Putting Politics Above Science
How many thousands of Americans have died and will die, because criminal Fuhrer Trump* is diverting the resources desperately needed by sick families no serve his, his relatives’, and his Republican cronies’ greed?
The last time there was a whistleblower complaint, we impeached Criminal Fuhrer Trump*. Since these high crimes and misdemeanors are even worse, it’s time to give that dirty son of a bitch (apologies to all female dawgs) a second asterisk.
RESIST!!
6 Responses to “A Bright Spot Makes the Fuhrer Squirm”
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WOW!!! Unreal.
Pathetic how this administration acts. dt and his cronies need to be gone.
I worry and pray about Dr. Bright’s safety. I hope that he has good security.
Thanks, Tom for the ‘heads up’ on this post. I’m still reading.
Appalling complaint, yes. Horrifying complaint, yes. But shocking complaint? Sorry, but I can no longer be shocked by Orange Judas or his gangsters. Of course this is what they would do.
Someone remarked that it should have been obvios that no Bright person could be welcome in, or go along with, the Trump* regime.
And you are right, Pat, to fear for his safety. Almost anyone else would realize that any damage he could do has already been done … it is all on the record and cannot be made to go away. But this fuhrer is so malicious, he’s likely to kill him anyway, just to “get even.”
No surprise, here, either, just foaming anger. The gov’t, rather this gov’t, has simply become a Mafia group, period. How far any investigation gets is the big question, now.
Phasing out the WH CV Task force is being done for nothing but political purposes, IMHO. How could Dumpy go into the election with such thing still active. If it’s gone, he can say, there was no need for it any longer, which I guess he’s said, but then he can add, deceitfully as ever, “See, it was no big deal, and now I made it go away.”
I’m not surprised either about Dr. Bright coming out and complaining about all of the illegal actions that tRump and his cronies have been doing ever since this Covid-19 virus started.
It’s a real shame to think that Dr. Bright has to even face fear for speaking truth.
What in the hel* has our world turned into?? Especially ever since tRump has stepped into the W.H. our ways of life have changed for the worse. All he does is lie and betray others.
I pray that Dr. Bright is successful with his complaint. I’m sick of tRump getting away with all of his evil crap.
Another hero stands up to do what is right and blows the whistle. I hope Dr Bright makes it to the hearing next week. If he does, the Trump administration will do everything in its power to postpone the hearing as long as possible, throwing in a lawsuit against good Dr Bright if need be. We’ve all seen it before and it’s making me sick to my stomach, which is not a coronavirus symptom.
The video which mentioned Byer promising millions of doses of chloroquine drugs for free, got me thinking. Remember Aussie billionaire and Trump wannabee Clive Palmer? He advertised that he had purchased 32,900,000 doses of hydroxychloroquine and that he’s donating them towards Australia’s fight against COVID-19. Clive Palmer spending money? Naaahhh. I bet that these are the same pills Bayer had offered to America for free and with which they were stuck with after Dr Bright refused them. Bayer must have offered them for free to Clive Palmer because they’d probably had them made on the cheap in India and weren’t FDA approved.
Thanks, Hugs, and Amen to all!