Deborah Birx
Deborah BirxSunday shows the preview: All eyes on the Biden administration to fight the coronavirus Birx says that she regularly considered abandoning Pence hands Biden coronavirus task force report MORE, the former White House coronavirus coordinator, said on Sunday that her efforts to advise then-President Trump
Donald TrumpNYT: Deputy Perry played a role in Trump’s alleged plan to expel AG Arizona GOP censors leading state Republicans McCain, Flake and Ducey Biden and the UK Prime Minister discuss NATO, multilateralism during call MORE about the pandemic have been complicated by people presenting you with “parallel data”.
“I saw the president presenting graphics that I have never done. So, I know that someone, or someone out there or someone inside, was creating a parallel set of data and graphs that were shown to the president. I know what I sent and I know what was in your hands was different, ”said Birx on CBS’s“ Face the Nation ”program. “You can not do that.”
Questioned by hostess Margaret Brennan, who provided the former president with this data, Birx said she was not sure, but said she suspected that at least some of the data was provided by the former White House adviser Scott Atlas
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“I don’t know who else was part of it, but I think that when the record comes back and people see what I wrote on a daily basis and was sent to the White House leadership, they will see that – that I was highly specific about what I was seeing and what needed to be done, ”she said.
Asked by Brennan if the White House chief of staff or any other official was “saying ‘wait a second, this is our official coordinator, listen to her and just her'”, Birx said he did not know if anyone said this to Trump, but “nobody said that to me.”
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“Someone in there was creating a parallel set of data and graphs that were shown to the president”
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Brennan asked if Birx believed Trump was concerned about the political implications of the virus and his re-election campaign.
“I always ask myself that, and, I mean, the worst possible time when you can have a pandemic is in a presidential election year. I think the White House people were very focused on this pandemic in March and April, ”she said. “I think that once the country started to open up and it became clear to me that they would not follow my really closed criteria, on which I had worked hard.”