posted March 16, 2020 04:38 PM            

The CDC $$$ BUCK $$$ stopped.. with him.

posted March 16, 2020 06:04 PM            

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Originally posted by jwhop:
Why should President Trump take responsibility for your little Marxist Messiah, Obama's screw-ups?

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posted March 16, 2020 10:41 PM            

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Originally posted by jwhop:
Your little Marxist Communist Socialist Progressive, Obama [b]WAS in office when CDC rules and regulations were put in place for handling outbreaks of contagious diseases. That's what got the remediation of Corona Virus off to a slow start.

Now, fixed...like most everything else...by President Trump.[/B]

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Jwhop, did you read the part in the Fortune article where it says:

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The cuts started in 2018, as the White House focused on eliminating funding to Obama-era disease security programs. In March of that year, Rear Adm. Timothy Ziemer, whose job it was to lead the U.S. response in the event of a pandemic, abruptly left the administration and his global health security team was disbanded.

That same year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was forced to slash its efforts to prevent global disease outbreak by 80% as its funding for the program began to run out. The agency, at the time, opted to focus on 10 priority countries and scale back in others, including China.

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posted March 17, 2020 12:12 AM            

But, those were not doctors. They were National Security Council employees led by
Rear Adm. R. Timothy Ziemer, also not a doctor.

The Center For Disease Control, (CDC) is the proper agency to manage national health issues for the United States, which is what they're doing.

Notice too, the name of the disbanded NSC group, Global Health Security. President Trump is focused on United States Health Security, as he should be.

That doesn't mean there's no US involvement with foreign nations on health issues. The Center For Disease Control, CDC, routinely interacts with foreign nations on health issues. Their services were offered to China early on with their outbreak of Corona Virus but were refused by China.

posted March 17, 2020 01:37 AM            

From the Washington Examiner:
Former NSC official denies claims that Trump administration cut pandemic response office
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former -nsc-official-denies-claims-that-trump-administration-cut-pandemic-response-office

posted March 18, 2020 12:01 AM            

And, do leftists ever apologize for lying to their readers and viewers? Seldom if ever!
This is the reason rational people ignore CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, NY Times, Politico, Huffington Post and other leftists sources as a source for news.

Trump Shut Down the CDC’s Pandemic Department!

Do I even need to point out how virulent and widespread this talking point has been?

Sigh:

No, the White House didn’t ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office. I was there.

It has been alleged by multiple officials of the Obama administration, including in The Post, that the president and his then-national security adviser, John Bolton, “dissolved the office” at the White House in charge of pandemic preparedness. Because I led the very directorate assigned that mission, the counterproliferation and biodefense office, for a year and then handed it off to another official who still holds the post, I know the charge is specious.

It is true that the Trump administration has seen fit to shrink the NSC staff. But the bloat that occurred under the previous administration clearly needed a correction. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, congressional oversight committees and members of the Obama administration itself all agreed the NSC was too large and too operationally focused (a departure from its traditional role coordinating executive branch activity). As The Post reported in 2015, from the Clinton administration to the Obama administration’s second term, the NSC’s staff “had quadrupled in size, to nearly 400 people.” That is why Trump began streamlining the NSC staff in 2017.

The reduction of force in the NSC has continued since I departed the White House. But it has left the biodefense staff unaffected.

It is this reorganization that critics have misconstrued or intentionally misrepresented. If anything, the combined directorate was stronger because related expertise could be commingled.

posted March 18, 2020 02:48 AM            

Now are you saying that it was never disbanded or dissolved, just streamlined? And you are relying on Breibart to share your reversal of opinion?

Ok. I am willing to change my mind. So I carefullly tiptoed into Breibart territory to find the source for these new assertions, the person claiming "I was there." I expected some former high ranking official of the office in question.

I found a quote with no name, no reference to a source where I could find the name. It was part of a very long article written by Breibart editor John Nolte. Since he wrote the article, I thought maybe he was the one who "was there". I googled him and I found nothing telling me that he was part of the NSC or part of the disbanded or if you prefer streamlined office.

posted March 18, 2020 10:41 AM            

I wondered the same thing you did..and did the same things you did to find out 'who' the person identified as I is.

Not finding an answer, I posted this in the article comment section on BREITBART.

"Who is the I...first person singular...who claims to have been head of the CDC Pandemic Dept?

5. Trump Shut Down the CDC’s Pandemic Department!
Do I even need to point out how virulent and widespread this talking point has been?
Sigh:
No, the White House didn’t ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office. I was there."

Let's see if someone there responds with an answer.

BTW, You're a sharp reader Belange.

posted March 18, 2020 10:48 AM            

My final google sleuthing led me to TADAAA...Tim Morisson! and he seems legit. He has no reason to be lying, in fact he gave testimony in the house impeachment hearing last year that was not favorable to the president. So this is a man above partisanship and I am willing to trust what he has to say.

From the Washington Examiner:
Former NSC official denies claims that Trump administration cut pandemic response office
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former -nsc-official-denies-claims-that-trump-administration-cut-pandemic-response-office

Top NSC aide Tim Morrison's closed-door impeachment inquiry testimony
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/470793-read-top-nsc-aide -tim-morrisons-closed-door-impeachment-inquiry-testimony

posted March 18, 2020 10:50 AM            

By Tim Morrison
March 16
Tim Morrison is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and former senior director for counterproliferation and biodefense on the National Security Council.

"....It has been alleged by multiple officials of the Obama administration, including in The Post, that the president and his then-national security adviser, John Bolton, “dissolved the office” at the White House in charge of pandemic preparedness. Because I led the very directorate assigned that mission, the counterproliferation and biodefense office, for a year and then handed it off to another official who still holds the post, I know the charge is specious."

If you re-read the BREITBART article...
http://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2020/03/17/nolte-all-the-establ ishment-medias-dangerous-coronavirus-lies/

as I did..again, you'll find the word 'sigh' which is a hot link to a Washington Post article written by Tim Morrison.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/16/no-white-house- didnt-dissolve-its-pandemic-response-office/