March 15, 2021: Dr. Birx Had a Sinking Feeling - The President Was an Idiot

 

3/15/21: The most recent U.S. intelligence assessment discounts the idea, pushed by former President Trump, that China interfered in the 2020 election in an effort to help sway a Biden win. 

Russia, however, did interfere on Trump’s side. 

Again. 

If it’s any consolation for Trump fans, Iran did what it could, spreading misinformation in hopes Mr. Biden would win.

 

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“You can see how extraordinarily uncomfortable I was.” 

MEANWHILE, Dr. Deborah Birx comments on one of the great moments of the pandemic. That would be the day Trump said we should drink disinfectant to protect ourselves from the virus. As a member then of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, she admits now that she was stunned. 

 “Frankly, I didn’t know how to handle that episode,” she explains. “I still think about it every day.” 

“You can see how extraordinarily uncomfortable I was,” Birx says. 

Trump’s comments were idiotic. But how could she say that during a press conference on national TV? “Those of you who have served in the military know that there are discussions you have in private with your commanding officers and there’s discussions you had in public.” 

She couldn’t just say, “That is the stupidest idea I ever heard of.” 

But it was.

 

Dr. Birx went on to say she and Dr. Anthony Fauci talked “all the time” about “how to correct the record.” That record was being constantly warped by Mr. Trump.

 

“I can’t tell you how many discussions we had on, how do we get the message out realizing what’s happening at the most senior levels of the White House,” she said finally.

 

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Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, rear, civilian clothes, listens to his twin brother testify

in the first Trump impeachment

 

“A top 1% military attorney and officer.”

 

IN ANOTHER throwback moment, the U.S. Army announces Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman is  to be promoted to full colonel. His promotion was blocked when his brother testified in the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump.

 

Vindman filed a complaint last August with the Pentagon inspector general. He claimed he  was retaliated against by his former White House counsel’s office bosses, John Eisenberg and Michael Ellis, for reporting misconduct by the president.

 

Eisenberg and Ellis filed what could have been a career-ending evaluation of Vindman last year, saying he lacked judgment and had lost the trust of senior NSC leadership, according to the complaint Vindman filed. The promotions board first met roughly two months after the negative evaluations, according to the two people familiar with the matter.

 

But Maj. Gen. Michel Russell, an assistant deputy chief of staff in the Army, conducted an investigation and found the evaluations to not be objective, according to the people.

 

Previously, Eisenberg had described Vindman as “a top 1% military attorney and officer.” He said “he can do any job in the legal field under unusual and constant pressure and scrutiny. Select now for SSC [Senior Service College] and promote immediately to COL. Absolutely unlimited potential!”

 

Moral of the story: Don’t cross Donald J. Trump. Because Eisenberg will start lying about you.