Chivalry
might be dead, but irony certainly isn’t. Democrats On the House Select Subcommittee
on the Coronovirus Crisis recently released a report alleging the Trump
administration pressured health officials to approve unproven COVID-19
treatments and rush authorization of vaccines. The report alleges that former President Donald Trump and
his top advisers pushed former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner
Stephen Hahn to grant emergency use authorization (EUA) to unproven treatments
like hydroxychloroquine and convalescent plasma. Hahn also alleged that top Trump
officials pushed the FDA to rush authorization of the first vaccine so it would
be available before the 2020 presidential election. (But, of course, liberal elites pressured
Pfizer to delay approval of its COVID-19 vaccine until after the
election.)
“The Select Subcommittee’s findings that
Trump White House officials deliberately and repeatedly sought to bend FDA’s
scientific work on coronavirus treatments and vaccines to the White House’s
political will are yet another example of how the prior Administration
prioritized politics over public health,” chairman James Clyburn said in
a statement about the report. “As today’s report makes clear, senior
Trump Administration officials undermined public health experts because they
believed doing so would benefit the former president politically—plotting
covertly with known conspiracy theorists to dangerously push a disproven
coronavirus treatment, bullying FDA to change its vaccine guidance, and
advocating for federal investigations into those who stood in their way.”
The truth is, as soon as Joe Biden took over as
president, a rush was made to declare the vaccine to be safe and effective…and
a result of the Biden administration’s tireless efforts at protecting American
citizens. Biden lauded his
administration’s “war footing” in fighting the virus in his first state of
the union speech last year and promised that every American would have
the opportunity to get vaccinated beginning on May 1st. In fact, it was soon
made mandatory for many, and ensuing booster shots were recommended/mandated
as well.
The Biden White House even went so far as to claim there
was no vaccine available when Biden took office. Which is odd, since Biden
himself was vaccinated the month before he occupied the White House.
Though former President Donald Trump did openly defend
COVID-19 vaccinations and their efficacy, he has repeatedly denounced mandates
for both vaccines and masks.
For Clyburn and House Democrats to assert that the
Trump administration “prioritized politics over public health”
while defending the Biden administration is beyond the pale, worse than the pot
calling the kettle black. It is like the Clinton’s labeling someone a liar, or
the ladies on “The View” calling someone ignorant or stupid.
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